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Priest brutally murdered in Nigeria
August 03, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: A priest was brutally murdered in Ajaokuta, in Nigeria’s Kogi State.
The body of Father Samuel Opeyemi Oyetoro was found by the side of a road with “severe machete cuts to the head,” a police spokesman said.
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