Author: Karleen Pinheiro

No less than 45 individuals were apprehended by the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun Corps, for purportedly participating in certain unlawful acts across the state. The suspects supposedly carried out offenses such as abduction, destruction, stealing, housebreaking, and cultism. Displaying the suspects at the corps headquarters in Akure, the […]

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The three-year-old boy, Olamide Taiwo, who was inside a car stolen in the Ikenne area of Ogun State on Saturday, has been discovered in Owode-Onirin, Ikorodu, Lagos State. PUNCH Online detailed the theft of a vehicle containing a three-year-old boy in Ikenne. The Toyota Camry car, bearing the license plate PKA 446GV, is owned by a person named Taiwo Fayobi.

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WILKES-BARRE — The Wilkes-Barre Cavalcade of Jazz was held May 3 through 5, with an opening ceremony and headline performance at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts. Weekend performances were scattered throughout downtown venues including Bank & Vine, Cafe Toscana, The Vault, Senunas’, Abide Coffeehouse, The Stegmaier Mansion and more. Here are some snapshots, courtesy of the Kirby Center, of just some of the festival’s many memorable moments.

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Nigeria’s longest-running monthly chess tournament, Chess Heights Monthly, was held nationwide on Saturday, May 4. The tournament organised by Chess Heights Foundation, in partnership with Gistcom Chess, had four participants, including nine-year-old Adaora Nduji, who is the first female and youngest player to feature in this month’s event. Other players who participated for the first […]

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Richard “Rick” Slayman, a 62-year-old man who made history as the first person to receive a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, has died two months after the groundbreaking surgery, according to his family and a statement from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he had the transplant. According to the Washington Post on Sunday, the […]

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