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.   A farmer, Friday Omosigho, has committed suicide after attacking his wife with a machete on the farm and leaving her in a pool of blood in Benin City, Edo State . A source said the incident happened at Ehiozevbaru Village in the Uhunmwode Local Government Area of the state. The deceased was said to have accused his wife, Mercy Omosigho, of infidelity . The source said, “ The deceased took the matter to the village meeting where some elders intervened to resolve the issue. “Apparently unsatisfied with the elders’ verdict, he attacked his wife with a machete on the farm and abandoned her in the pool of blood to die. “He then called his younger brother that he had killed his wife and went home to commit suicide by drinking sniper .” The Edo State Police Command’s spokesperson, Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the incident, said the man drank a substance suspected to be the insecticide, ‘sniper.’ He said the Divisional Police Officer of Egba Police Division received a call from one Mo...

  Adidas is facing a class-action lawsuit from shareholders who claim that the sportswear brand failed to inform investors about Kanye West's "extreme behavior" and antisemitism before their partnership ended in 2022. According to the lawsuit, Adidas "routinely ignored" West's behavior as early as 2018 and "failed to take meaningful precautionary measures" to limit financial exposure if the partnership ended. The lawsuit does not name the rapper, but covers anyone who bought an Adidas share from May 3, 2018, until 2023. The company ended its almost decade-long partnership with West after he wore a "White Lives Matter" T-shirt in public and made antisemitic remarks during a podcast taping. Adidas said that it does not tolerate hate speech and that West's comments violated the company's values of diversity and inclusion. The company is expected to lose $1.3 billion in revenue this year due to its inability to sell West's Yeezy c...

  Hundreds of Nigerian students evacuated from Sudan have been left stranded at the Egyptian border due to stringent conditions imposed by the Egyptian authorities. The students have been waiting for three days, but the border remains closed. According to the Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, the Egyptian authorities have demanded that all 637 Nigerians be cleared before they can be allowed to enter Egypt. The Federal Government may move the students to Port Sudan for evacuation if Egypt continues to delay. The Nigerian Ambassador to Egypt, Nura Rimi, has communicated the conditions and guidelines for the evacuation, which include providing details and a schedule of the aircraft, capacity of the aircraft, a strong pledge to convey the citizens directly to the designated airport, a comprehensive list of the evacuees with passport numbers, valid travel documents, the presence of Nigerian government officials at the points of embarkation, and standby buses that will...