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The family of a bride-to-be and a group of passengers have thwarted a kidnapping attempt and killed a bandit in Zamfara State.   It was gathered that the incident unfolded when the family of the bride-to-be and other travellers were ambushed by bandits along the Talata Mafara-Gusau highway.   According …

A 300-level student of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), in Nasarawa State, Emmanuel Ashim popularly known as Fly Bee, has died as a result of injuries sustained in an attack by unknown assailants.      Ashim, a Theatre and Media Arts student popularly known as Fly Bee, died on …

Former Arsenal chairman Sir Chips Keswick has died at the age of 84.    Keswick, a successful merchant banker, first joined the Gunners board as a director in 2005 before going on to take the mantle of chairman in 2013. He served in that role until retiring in May 2020, …

A yet to be identified lady has died after a container fell on her car in Ilesa, Osun state today April 3.    An X user had taken to the micro-blogging platform to call for help to rescue the woman who he said was alive when the incident happened.   …

Nigerian playwright, producer, director and culture advocate, Wole Oguntokun, has died at the age of 56.    Oguntokun, who was also a lawyer, died in Canada on Wednesday, March 27.   Film director, Kayode Peters, shared the news on his Instagram page Thursday afternoon.   The post read, “I remember …

Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioral economics, has died. He was 90. He died ‘peacefully’ on Wednesday,  March 27 according to a release from Princeton University, whose faculty he had joined in 1993. His cause of death was not provided by the university. Kahneman wrote …

Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut’s four-term United States senator and Vice President Al Gore’s Democratic running mate in the 2000 presidential election, which was won by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when the Supreme Court halted a Florida ballot recount, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 82. His family …

Amaechi Muonagor has died at the age of 61.  The Nollywood actor reportedly died today, March 24, after suffering from kidney-related issues, diabetes, and stroke.  In 2023, he suffered a stroke that led to partial paralysis of his left leg.  He was undergoing weekly dialysis and also physiotherapy to treat …

The spokesperson of the Lagos State Police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, has revealed that a woman, who was hit by a 22-year-old driver has died.     In a post shared on his X handle today March 24, Hundeyin said the woman and her three children were selling groundnuts by …

A backpacker was killed after falling from a moving train on Thailand’s notorious “Death Island”.    Ryan Joseph Ralph, 24, boarded the overnight train with British girlfriend Shona Morgan, 22, in Bangkok to reach the notorious Koh Tao island on Wednesday, March 20.    A couple of hours into the …