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A 17-year-old boy was arrested on Wednesday for attempted murder after three people were injured in an apparent stabbing at a school in northern England, police said, days after a similar incident in Wales. The boy was detained following reports of three people being injured at Birley Community College in Sheffield, South Yorkshire Police said.…
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A gas explosion occurred in Ajegunle, Olodi Apapa area of Lagos State on Tuesday evening which saw ten people injured. Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotosho in a statement said a “routine offloading of gas cylinders into a shop has sparked an explosion in Ajegunle, Olodi Apapa, Lagos.” READ ALSO: Fire guts…
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Nigerian Fintech company, OPay said it has temporarily paused onboarding new customers and creating new wallets. OPay announced this in a statement with other Fintech companies taking the same step, according to the new directive from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The firm’s management in the statement also offered clarity on CBN’s new directive…
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Qantas apologised Wednesday after a “technology issue” with its mobile app exposed users’ travel details, including their names, flights and points. Many frequent fliers posted on social media that they were seeing other passengers’ names, accounts, flight plans, points, and boarding passes. Some reported that the glitch persisted even after the airline said it had…
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The Islamic State group has claimed a gun attack on a minority Shiite mosque in western Afghanistan that killed six people on Monday. Interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said Tuesday morning that “an unknown armed person shot at civilian worshippers in a mosque” in Herat province’s Guzara district at around 9:00 pm (1630 GMT)…