Day: January 6, 2023

Prominent Kenyan LGBTQ Activist Found Dead In Metal Box – Local Media

ADEOLA YUSUF

KENYAN police have discovered the body of a prominent LGBTQ rights campaigner stuffed inside a metal box in the west of the country, local media reported on Friday. Motorbike taxi riders alerted police after they saw the box dumped by the roadside from a vehicle with a concealed number plate, The Standard and The Daily Nation newspapers reported, quoting police sources. Activist Edwin Chiloba’s remains were found on Tuesday near Eldoret town in Uasin Gishu county, where he ran his fashion business, independent rights group the Kenya Human Rights Commission…

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‘World’s Most Wanted’ Human Trafficker Arrested In Sudan

Aoko Benjamin

An Eritrean national described as the ‘world’s most wanted’ human trafficker has been arrested in Sudan after an international search led by the United Arab Emirates, Interpol has announced. The suspect, identified as Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam, is accused of leading a criminal organisation that abducts, extorts and murders East African migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya, The Associated Press (AP) news agency reported the France-based police agency as saying in an online statement. Habtemariam was arrested on Sunday in a ‘major international police operation led by the…

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Covenant Varsity Lecturer, Wale Olonade, Bags PhD In Development Sociology

Precious Ibekwe

What Oyedepo, VC Prof. Abiodun Adebayo said at the 17th Convocation of Covenant University + PHOTOS of latest scholar in special area of development Sociology   A lecturer at the Covenant University, Olawale Yinusa Olonade, has bagged a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in  development Sociology. Platforms Africa reports that Olonade was pronounced a Ph.D holder alongside 1,933 other including first, and second degree holders at the 17th Convocation of the institution in Ota, Ogun State. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abiodun Adebayo, disclosed this during the 17th Convocation Ceremony and Conferment…

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Fatima Andat Tops With 5.0 CGPA As Covenant Varsity Graduates 1,934

Damilola Olonade

206 students bag first class at 17th Convocation of the University Fatima Andat, a student in the Department of Accounting, College of Management and Social Sciences, has emerged as the overalk best-graduating student of the Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, with a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 5.00. Platforms Africa reports that Andat scored a oerfect CGPA having scored 5.00 out of 5.00 Available points by the University. A total of 206 students on Friday bagged First-Class degrees at the institution’s 2021/2022 Convocation. READ ALSO Meet Albert Oikelome, UNILAG New…

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Guardian Photo Editor, Femi Adebesin-Kuti, Is Dead

Gbenga Adeoti

He died At Abeokuta FMC, Photojournalist’s Guild gives details of how Kuti, fondly called Esin Funfun (White Horse’s) breathed his last       Photo Editor of the Guardian newspaper, Femi Adebesin-Kuti, is dead. The Guild of Photojournalists Nigeria, which announced the death of Adebesin-Kuti, one of its members, added that he died on Friday January 06,2023 at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State after a brief illness. “Adebesin was aged 57 years old. He occupied the Photo Editor position at the Guardian Newspaper and had a stint with…

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