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A KFC restaurant in Nigeria closed after an employee insulted a disabled person

29/03/2024 - 12:59

KFC Nigeria has apologized after the country's airport authority closed one of its restaurants for allegedly discriminating against a disabled customer. Adebola Daniel, son of the former governor of the Nigerian state, Gbenga Daniel, said in a post on X that he was ordered to leave the KFC restaurant at the Lagos airport because of his disability…

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All 287 kidnapped schoolchildren in Nigeria have been released after two weeks of captivity

24/03/2024 - 11:22

All 287 students who were kidnapped by armed attackers in an attack on their school in northwestern Nigeria at the beginning of March have been released, local authorities announced today. Uba Sani, the governor of Kaduna state, where the mass kidnapping took place on March 7, did not release details of the children's release, but thanked the president...

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Fifteen children kidnapped in latest attack on schools in Nigeria

10/03/2024 - 14:53

An armed group in Nigeria has attacked another school and kidnapped 15 children in the third mass kidnapping incident in two weeks, police said today. Heavily armed assailants stormed a school dormitory in Sokoto state yesterday morning. Apart from the children, a woman from the village of Gidan Bakuso was also taken away, said the police spokesman, Ahmad Rufai. The police found out...

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Over 280 children in Nigeria kidnapped by an armed gang

08/03/2024 - 10:30

More than 280 Nigerian schoolchildren have been kidnapped in the northwestern town of Kuriga, authorities said. The students were at the assembly point around 08:30 a.m. local time, when dozens of gunmen on motorcycles came in front of the school. The students, aged eight to 15, were abducted along with a teacher, they added. Kidnapping gangs, known as bandits, seized hundreds of people...

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A lion killed a zookeeper in Nigeria

20/02/2024 - 09:05

A zookeeper at a university in Nigeria has been killed by one of the lions he cared for for nearly a decade. Olabode Olawui, who was in charge of the zoo at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), was attacked while feeding the lions, the OAU said. His colleagues could not save him because "the wild cat had already caused severe ...

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A KFC restaurant in Nigeria closed after an employee insulted a disabled person

All 287 kidnapped schoolchildren in Nigeria have been released after two weeks of captivity

Fifteen children kidnapped in latest attack on schools in Nigeria

Over 280 children in Nigeria kidnapped by an armed gang

A lion killed a zookeeper in Nigeria

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A KFC restaurant in Nigeria closed after an employee insulted a disabled person

All 287 kidnapped schoolchildren in Nigeria have been released after two weeks of captivity

Fifteen children kidnapped in latest attack on schools in Nigeria

Over 280 children in Nigeria kidnapped by an armed gang

A lion killed a zookeeper in Nigeria

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