The suspect, a resident of Shuwarin town in Kiyawa Local Government Area, was apprehended with a Mazda 323 Model F, bearing registration number MNA 139HK, Niger State.

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SOME Filipinos have been found with a blood type of “H”: Hero. Two groups of Filipinos don’t know they have it. But with hard work and a shared love for their families and the motherland, they’re able ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

The shellfish was considered food for the poor before Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, an emancipated Black man, started serving ...