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Nigeria, Benin sign MOU to strengthen security, boost development in border towns
Daily Post
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August 21, 2025
In move to strengthen bilateral cooperation, Nigeria and the Benin Republic have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, aimed at enhancing security and boosting economic development in their shared border towns. The MoU, signed during a...
Nigeria News17 seconds ago Bianca Ojukwu Raises Alarm Over Nigerian Pastor Chained In Benin Republic Hospital The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has shared the story of a Nigerian pastor who is imprisoned in the Benin…
Naija News
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August 21, 2025
Ojukwu revealed that the clergyman identified as Benjamin Egbaji, from Cross River State, has been imprisoned for the past two years in the Republic of Benin. Speaking via a statement on her X handle, the Minister lamented that Egbaji is being...
Benin bus accident death toll rises to 37 after river search
The Sun Daily
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August 20, 2025
COTONOU: Rescuers have recovered ten additional bodies from a Beninese river where a bus plunged during the weekend, raising the accident’s total death toll to thirty-seven. Civil protection authority director Abdel Aziz Bio Djibril confirmed six...
Nigerian Pastor Held In Chains In Benin Republic Hospital Over Alleged Rape Battles Life-Threatening Health Crisis
Sahara Reporters
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The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has raised an alarm over the plight of a Nigerian clergyman, Pastor Benjamin Egbaji from Cross River State, who has been held under questionable circumstances in the...
Bianca Ojukwu visits jailed Nigerian pastor in Benin, urges justice
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 21, 2025
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Ojukwu, has visited Pastor Benjamin Egbaji, a Nigerian national from Cross River State, who has been imprisoned in the Republic of Benin for nearly two years on rape allegations, describing his...
Benin Bus Accident Toll Rises To 37 After 10 Bodies Found
Channels TV
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August 20, 2025
Rescuers have recovered 10 more bodies from a Beninese river which a bus plunged into at the weekend, bringing the accident’s total death toll to 37, authorities told AFP on Wednesday. Six more people are still missing after the bus fell off a...
Benin striker Razak Omotoyossi dies at 39
GhanaWeb
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August 19, 2025
Benin legend Razak Omotoyossi has been confirmed dead at the age of 38, sending shockwaves across African football. The former Metz and Helsingborg striker passed away on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, in his home country, though the cause of death has...
Viral Benin video old justice already served, FRSC clarifies
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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August 21, 2025
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged the public to disregard a viral video currently circulating on social media, showing a tricycle rider, unclad and aggressive, confronting FRSC personnel and damaging a patrol vehicle along the Benin...
Benin ex-international, Razak Omotoyossi, dies at 38
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 19, 2025
Former Benin Republic international striker, Razak Omotoyossi, has died at the age of 38, football authorities in the West African country have confirmed. Omotoyossi, who was born in Lagos, Nigeria, began his professional career in the Nigerian...
MISSING PERSON: Edo State Police Command Declares Iredia Igbinovia Missing
ITV
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August 23, 2025
Edo state Police Command has declared a Man Iredia Igbinovia Missing. In a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer Edo State Police Command CSP Moses Joel Yamu, Iredia Igbinovia who resides at UBTH Housing Estate, Ugbowo ,Benin...
Flood: Drivers, communities groan as heavy rain cut off bridges between Kebbi, Benin Republic
The Sun Nigeria
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August 20, 2025
From Olanrewaju Lawal, Birnin Kebbi Commercial vehicles, communities across border’s Communities in Kebbi State have been thrown into unnecessary hardship as flood cut off bridges linking Benin Republic and Birnin Kebbi,the state capital as a...
Nigerian-born Benin football legend dies at 38
The Sun Nigeria
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August 20, 2025
The African football community is mourning the death of Razak Omotoyossi, the prolific striker who rose to legendary status with the Benin Republic national team. He passed away on Tuesday morning in Benin, aged 38. Though born in Nigeria,...
Emilagba, Coach Aderemi shine in Benin League
The Sun Nigeria
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August 20, 2025
By Joe Apu Nigerian basketball player Bolaji Abdulahi Emilagba and veteran coach Adewunmi Aderemi stole the spotlight as Élan Coton Basketball Club successfully defended their league title in the men’s final of the 2025 YouZou League Pro in Benin...
At least 27 dead after bus plunges into river in Benin
Business Day
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August 20, 2025
At least 27 people have died in Benin after a passenger bus plunged from a bridge into the Oueme River, rescue officials confirmed on Tuesday, as search efforts continue for those still missing. The director of the country’s civil protection...
Bus accident toll in Benin rises to 27
Daily Star
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August 19, 2025
Wed Aug 20, 2025 01:37 AM Last update on: Wed Aug 20, 2025 01:52 AM AFP, Cotonou Wed Aug 20, 2025 01:37 AM Last update on: Wed Aug 20, 2025 01:52 AM At least 27 people have died in Benin after a bus plunged from a bridge into the Oueme River,...
Razak Omotoyossi Dies: Former Republic of Benin National Football Team and Al-Nassr Forward Passes Away Aged 39
Latestly
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August 20, 2025
In unfortunate news, the former Republic of Benin national footballer Razak Omotoyossi has passed away aged 39, with details about his death still unknown. Omotoyossi is Benin's second-highest goal-scorer with 21 goals in 22 matches, and featured...
Adieu Razak! Tributes as Lagos-born ex-Benin striker Omotoyossi dies at 39
Punch
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August 20, 2025
Tributes have poured in for former Benin Republic international, Razak Omotoyossi, following his death at the age of 39. The passing of the Beninese football icon and former Metz striker was announced by various sources on Tuesday, although the...
Former Benin International, Omotoyossi, is Dead
This Day
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August 20, 2025
A former Benin Republic striker, Razak Omotoyossi, is dead. Omotoyossi, was reported to have passed away yesterday, August 19, 2025, in Nigeria. A former striker for the Cheetahs of Benin Republic (2004-2016), he remains the second-highest goal...
Ex-Benin Republic International Omotoyossi Dies
Complete Sports
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August 19, 2025
Former Cheetahs of Benin Republic star striker Razak Omotoyossi has passed away at the age of 39. Razak Omotoyossi’s death was confirmed by his former Swedish club Helsingborgs. “Helsingborgs IF is in mourning,” the club said in a statement on...
Death toll rises to 27 in Benin bus accident
Xinhua News Agency
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COTONOU, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A total of 27 people have been confirmed dead and 16 remained missing after a bus plunged into a river in central Benin early Sunday, authorities said. There were 52 people on the bus when tragedy struck, Abdel Aziz...