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ABUJA: Unvaccinated workers sit after being barred into offices for not complying with compulsory vaccination at the State Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria. - AFP n

Nigeria recruits mosques churches, to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations
ISUOFIA, Nigeria: Voters queue to vote at a polling station during the Anambra State governorship election at Isuofia, southeast Nigeria yesterday. - AFP n

Nigeria's southeast state votes in key ballot
LAGOS: People walk to rescue workers from the rubble of a 21-storey building under construction that collapsed at Ikoyi district of Lagos. - AFP n

Death toll climbs to 22 in Lagos high-rise collapse
IKOYI, Nigeria: Rescue workers search for survivors still trapped under the rubble at the site of the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos yesterday. - AFP n

Relatives desperate for news after Lagos building collapse
MOWE, Nigeria: Vendors display food for sale at a market in Ogun State on April 19, 2021. - AFP n

Nigerians feel squeeze as prices soar
CHIBOK, Nigeria: In this file photo taken on April 12, 2019 Musa Maina holds a picture of her kidnapped daughter, Hauwa, in Chibok. — AFP

By targeting schools, Nigerian kidnappers put country at risk
Bidemi Aye receives a pre-paid debt card for cash and food provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) in a makeshift home in the Makoko riverine slum settlement in Lagos.-AFPn

Pandemic tips more into extreme poverty in Nigeria's Lagos: WFP
TOPSHOT - People are obliged to walk with their hands upon their heads as they pass security checkpoints, held by security forces wearing civil clothes and holding machetes and sticks to control the crowd, at Obalende Market, Lagos, Nigeria, on October 23, 2020. - After 2 days of total lockdown and unrest in Lagos, the mega city of 20 million people, a few people were braving the curfew in search of food. nIn his TV speech on the night of October 22, 2020, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said he would not tolerate anyone to ìundermine securityî after 2 weeks of protests throughout the south of Nigeria and itís capital, Abuja. (Photo by Sophie Bouillon / AFP)

Armed gangs in Lagos despite Buhari's plea
TOPSHOT - A general view of smoke arising from the Ikoyi prison that is on fire in Lagos on October 22, 2020. - Gunshots could be heard on October 22, 2020 and smoke was seen billowing from a prison in central Lagos as fresh unrest rocked Nigeria's biggest city after the shooting of protesters.nPolice close to the scene told AFP that assailants had attacked the detention facility in the upscale Ikoyi neighbourhood. (Photo by Sophie BOUILLON / AFP)

Nigeria's largest city under lock down; violence rages
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KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah takes a group photo with senior officials and dignitaries during the Fourth Dushanbe Conference. - KUNA
Kuwait urges nations to unite against terrorism, extremism
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ALMORA: This handout photo shows people at the site of a bus accident, after it fell into a gorge at Almora district in India’s Uttarakhand state. - AFP
36 die as bus crash in Indian Himalayas
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Singapore Airlines Airbus A350-900 lands in Singapore International Changi airport on March 3, 2016. --AFP
Singapore Airlines to spend $800m to retrofit planes
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Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
Kuwait calls for systematic plan to nip terrorism in bud
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J Sudhakar, a leader and husband of a local councillor, distributes sweets after offering prayers for Kamala Harris at the Sri Dharmasastha temple in her ancestral village Thulasendrapuram in Tamil Nadu. -- AFP
Harris’ ancestral village in India to pray for her victory