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Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande capture quarantine feelings with star-studded Stuck With U video

Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande dropped a sweet and rather on-the-nose duet on Thursday night called Stuck With U, which was paired with an adorable, group-effort music video.




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Austrian wines are of wonderful value for the quality that's on offer

I've been banging the drum for Austrian wine so loudly for so long that I sometimes worry my enthusiastic zeal for their liquid loveliness turns me into Animal, the drummer from the Muppets.




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Norway Women 3-0 Nigeria Women: Martin Sjogren's side run out comfortable winners

Guro Reiten opened the scoring with a deflected shot in the 16th minute before Lisa-Marie Utland doubled their lead just after the half-hour mark with just her fifth touch of the game.




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Nigeria 0-1 France: Hosts top group after twice-taken penalty by Renard at Women's World Cup

Already-qualified hosts France preserved their perfect record to top Group A with a 1-0 win against 10-woman Nigeria thanks to Wendie Renard's 79th minute penalty.




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Germany 3-0 Nigeria: Die Nationalelf into quarter-finals of Women's World Cup

Germany booked their place in the Women's World Cup quarter-finals with a confident win over Nigeria. Alexandra Popp, Lea Schuller and Sara Dabritz scored the goals to secure victory.




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Border Protection's 'Beagle Brigade' stop illegal Giant African snails from being smuggled into US

Candie and Chipper - of the US Customs and Border Protection's 'Beagle Brigade' - sniffed out the Giant African snails while on duty at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.




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Nigeria 3-2 Cameroon: Odion Ighalo scores a brace to knock out holders

Nigeria produced a second-half comeback to beat Cameroon 3-2 and book their place in the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations. The Super Eagles had taken an early lead.




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Man leaps onto wing of plane as it tries to take off in Nigeria

Footage filmed by a passenger on the aircraft captures the man as he moves around the wing of the plane at the international airport in Lagos on Friday.




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Policewoman faces being fired after 'having sex with another contestant on Nigerian Big Brother

PC Khafi Kareem, 29, from the Metropolitan Police (pictured with Commissioner Cressida Dick) was warned not to take part in the show but was granted unpaid leave and entered.




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Met policewoman facing sack over Nigerian Big Brother sex storm defends her actions

PC Khafi Kareem (pictured) continued to appeal to viewers for support despite her London colleagues expressing concern that she'd tarnished the reputation of the Met.




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Nigeria want to snatch Tammy Abraham away from England

Nigeria have launched an ambitious attempt to convince Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham to snub England and represent the Super Eagles at international level.




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Nigerian man took a knife into immigration centre to get himself deported

Oluwaleke Yisa told an immigration officer 'I want to leave this f*****g country' during an appointment at the Home Office's Becket House, Bermondsey, on 20 August.




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Chelsea star Tammy Abraham refuses to rule out switch of allegiance to Nigeria

Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham has refused to rule out switching his allegiance to Nigeria.  Abraham is currently the joint-leading scorer in the Premier League this season.




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Frank Lampard urges Gareth Southgate to recall Tammy Abraham following Nigeria interest

Abraham, who has scored seven goals in his last three games, has already been capped by England at senior level. But, as his one cap came in a friendly he could still switch allegiance to Nigeria.




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England, Nigeria and Canada join the chase for Chelsea defender Fikayo Tomori

The 21-year-old was born in Canada to Nigerian parents, but moved to Gravesend when he was a baby. He has played for Canada's Under 20 team and for England's Under 20 and Under 21 teams.




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Nigerian stowaways threatened to infect sailors on ship they were trying to hijack

Samuel Jolumi, 27, Ishola Sunday, 28, Toheeb Popoola, 27, and Joberto McGee, 20, appeared at the Old Bailey in London and denied attempting to hijack the ship, making threats to kill, and affray.




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300 men and boys freed from 'house of torture' where they sexually abused for years in Nigeria

The detainees, mostly children, emerged from the building in Kaduna with chains on their hands and feet and horrific scarring after police raided it following an anonymous tip-off.




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19 women are freed from Nigerian 'baby factory'

Police say the women, aged between 15 and 28, were mostly lured to the coastal city of Lagos with the promise of domestic work before having their phones taken and being forced into pregnancy.




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Emmanuel Dennis reveals Cristiano Ronaldo inspired his Real Madrid celebration

The Nigeria international, 21, bagged a brace in the 2-2 draw and marked his Champions League goals by re-enacting Ronaldo's iconic 'Siii' celebration in front of the Real fans.




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Former Nigeria international Isaac Promise dies as ex-teammate Anton Ferdinand leads tributes

The American side announced in a statement that Promise had died on Wednesday evening, but did not specify the cause of death. He captained Nigeria to a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.




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Revered tortoise with 'healing powers' dies 'aged 344' at Nigerian emperor's palace

Alagba, meaning 'Elder', the tortoise died today after suffering from an illness. She lived with the ruler of Ogbomoso's palace, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi Ajagungbade, in Nigeria.




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Nigeria target Chelsea's Ike Ugbo after failing to convince Tammy Abraham to switch allegiance

EXCLUSIVE BY ADRIAN KAJUMBA: Nigeria have been running the rule over 21 year-old hotshot Ugbo who has caught the eye after making a prolific start to his loan spell at Roda JC this season.




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How racist abuse inspired Nigerian teenager living in New Zealand to UFC stardom

New UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya was just 10 when his family uprooted him from Nigeria to an all-white school in New Zealand.




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Ben Okri, Nicolás Giacobone and Kate Furnivall: This week's best new fiction reviews

Okri is always good company and these 20-odd tales showcase his lucid prose and freewheeling imagination.




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Neymar suffers another injury blow as he limps out of Brazil's friendly against Nigeria

Neymar limped out of Brazil's friendly against Nigeria in Singapore on Sunday after only 12 minutes. The 27-year-old was replaced by midfielder Philippe Coutinho.




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Brazil 1-1 Nigeria: Stalemate in Singapore after strikes from Joe Aribo and Casemiro

Neymar went off injured 12 minutes into Brazil's 1-1 draw with Nigeria in a friendly in Singapore on Sunday.




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What if each Australian state became independent?

Australia's biggest state would have an economy only slightly larger than Nigeria and the smallest the size of Botswana if federation collapsed and split up the country's $1.8 trillion GDP.




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Nigerian cops free 259 emaciated women, men and teenagers from another Islamic rehabilitation centre

Many reported that they were beaten regularly by their captors after they were released from the prison-like building with bars over its windows in Ibadan on Monday.




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Nigerian man with a bucket of water battles valiantly against huge fire

Footage taken today shows the man (pictured) hurling buckets of water at the fire and smoke which poured out of buildings at the Balogun textile market in Lagos, Nigeria.




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Oscars comes under fire for banning Nigerian film Lionheart from international category

Director Genevieve Nnaji tweeted: 'We did not choose who colonized us,' on Monday after Lionheart was disqualified from the Academy Awards' Best International Feature Film category at Oscars 2020.




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Nigerian scammer 'pulls off $1million heist' from maximum security prison with internet access

Hope Olusegun Aroke is currently under investigation in Nigeria after officials said he masterminded a 'mega scam' worth at least $1m (£773,000) from within the confines of a Lagos prison.




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Cambridge University agrees to return bronze cockerel looted from Nigeria in 19th century

Known as a Benin Bronze, it was snatched by British colonial forces and donated to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student. The piece was removed from public view in March 2016.




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SPECIAL REPORT: Anthony Joshua is rebuilt and ready to rumble  

SPECIAL REPORT BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Of all the tweaks, maybe it was a trip to where he wasn't meant to go did the most in getting Anthony Joshua back to where he believes he belongs.




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NHS hospital confirms patient has monkeypox after catching the killer virus while visiting Nigeria

A person in South West England has been diagnosed with monkeypox, Public Health England said, and they are now being treated at St Thomas' Hospital in London (pictured).




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Miss World viewers commend Miss Nigeria's reaction to losing the pageant

Nyekachi Douglas of Nigeria was one of the final three for Miss World. When it was announced that Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica won the crown instead of Douglas, the woman happily celebrated.




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Bukayo Saka is struggling to decide whether to play international football for England or Nigeria

The 18-year-old was born in Ealing, London but has Nigerian parents so therefore can play for England or Nigeria. The winger is currently playing at left-back for the Gunners.




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More than 1,000 Christians have been murdered by militants in Nigeria this year

The UK-based Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) says the nomadic Fulani group has targeted Christian farmers in Nigeria with an 'aggressive and strategic land grabbing policy'.




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Boko Haram jihadists kill seven people in raid on Christian village in Nigeria 

Dozens of fighters driving trucks and motorcycles stormed into Kwarangulum in Nigeria on Tuesday, shooting residents and burning homes after looting food (file photo of soldiers in the region).




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Four Nigerian stowaways are jailed after hurling faeces at elite SBS sailors

The stowaways mutinied on the ship, after they were found and placed in quarantine, while it was off the coast of Essex. Special Boat Service sailors rushed to rescue the Grande Tema's crew.




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Fans go nuts for striking new Nigeria home kit as Nike release collection

Nike have revealed the new 'Swoosh' Nigeria kits and their designs have once again been met with widespread acclaim. Fans on social media have been going wild for the new offering.




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Nigerian prince, 62, turns back on life of royalty to hunt leaks for Thames Water in London

Akeem Adenuga, 62, comes from the state of Lagos, Nigeria, where his brother is Royal Majesty Oba Asunmo Ganiyu Aderibigbe Balogun, Jamade 1, Paramount Ruler of Odo-Ayandelu.




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Top 10 Nigerian players in Premier League as Odion Ighalo prepares for Man United debut

There will be plenty of excitement in Nigeria when Odion Ighalo makes his debut for Manchester United. But the striker is far from the first player from the country to grace the Premier League.




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Lupita Nyong'o sports gold-tipped braids as she celebrates 37th birthday with friends in Nigeria

She's currently in Nigeria to work on an HBO Max TV adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's best-selling 2013 novel Americanah, which has been a passion project for sometime.




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Christian pastor is beheaded by Islamists in Nigeria after appealing for help in Boko Haram video

Reverend Lawan Andimi was killed in Nigeria on Monday, days after appealing for help in a video released by Boko Haram. The Christian pastor was abducted earlier this month.




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Former oil exec, 67, who returned from the UK becomes Nigeria's first coronavirus fatality 

The 67-year-old man, Suleiman Achimugu, died in the capital Abuja after returning to Nigeria following a medical procedure in the UK. Nigeria has 36 confirmed cases of the virus.




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Africa's biggest city lies empty: Deserted streets in Lagos after Nigeria locks down its capital

Businesses were closed, markets abandoned and streets empty as Nigeria's usually chaotic megacity of 20 million shuddered to a halt on the first full day of a two-week shutdown.




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Coronavirus Nigeria: Actress arrested for having party

Funke Akindele and her husband, Abdul Rasheed Bello, held a birthday party during the coronavirus lockdown despite the star fronting Nigeria's 'Stay Home' campaign on social distancing guidelines.




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Taribo West's hilarious confession of why Nigeria lost 1998 World Cup clash against Denmark

Nigeria were one of the fairytale stories of the competition in France after surprisingly topping their group with six points ahead of Spain, Bulgaria and Paraguay.




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Khloe Kardashian receives another glowing compliment from ex Tristan Thompson

The basketball player, 28, commented on a photo of Khloe sitting beside their daughter True, 'The Queen and Princess.' Lately, Tristan has been especially complimentary towards Khloe.




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Khloe Kardashian shares a video of daughter True jumping on the trampoline with Elmo

She absolutely adores her little princess. And Khloe Kardashian, 35, was just like any other mother when she proudly showed off her daughter on Instagram.