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Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a 23-year-old suspect, named Emmanuel Godwin, for the abduction and defilement of a 14-year-old girl. Police spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement, said the suspect was apprehended on April 2, 2025, at approximately 3:20 am, by operatives of the C4I Strike Force during a…
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Employment in Canada fell for the first time in three years in March, the national statistical agency said Friday, as uncertainty over US tariffs led businesses to cut staff and stall hiring. Canada shed some 33,000 net jobs in the month, pushing the unemployment rate up 0.1 percentage point to 6.7 percent, according to Statistics…
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Rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona, locked in a title battle in La Liga and set to face off in the Copa del Rey final, have “a lot of respect” for each other, says Los Blancos coach Carlo Ancelotti. Madrid trail leaders Barcelona by three points in the Spanish top flight with nine matches remaining and…
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Russia on Friday put the cost of a massive Black Sea oil spill in December from two tankers at almost $1 billion, which it is attempting to claim back from the ships’ owners. The head of Russia’s environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, Svetlana Radionova, told a government meeting on the clean-up that the “total sum presented to…
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Nigeria has received more than one million doses of the pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) from the Gavi-funded global stockpile, to curb a deadly outbreak of meningitis in the north. The outbreak, caused by meningococcus C and W strains, has claimed over 70 lives and led to more than 800 reported cases across 23 states.…
