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A gang of what are said to be former cattle rustlers has killed at least 51 adults and children in a village in northern Nigeria, burning down homes. Amongst the rows of dead bodies in Gwaska, in the Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna state, were children under the age of 10. Some bodies were mutilated. …
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The cough syrup epidemic affects Nigerians from all social groups When the younger brother of the BBC's Ruona Meyer became addicted to cough syrup, she began to investigate the men who make and sell opioid-based medicine on the streets of Lagos. Her investigation took her deep into Nigeria's criminal underworld, uncovering an epidemic that is …
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Editorial update Enoch Powell just died again in his death. Following his infamous rivers of blood speech in which he claimed that his fear was that “one day a black man will have a whip hand over a white man”. Two black Labour MPs were back, front and centre in the downfall of the Home …
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In their ‘odd clothes and dazzling ties’ the Windrush generation landed in Tilbury... windrush THE Windrush scandal has rightly been making the front pages of many newspapers recently. Yet back in June 1948, when the Windrush pioneers docked at Tilbury, full of hope for a new and better life in England, the story only made …
THE THURROCK Council local election saw winners and losers on every side. The Conservatives increased their number of seats to 20. They gained Stiffords Clays and Stanford East and Corringham Town They saw the Mayor, Tunde Ojetola ousted in South Chafford. Labour increased their number of seats to 17. They gained Ockendon, Belhus and South …
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