Lagos, Sept 19, 2026 (AFP) - Nigeria names panel to probe deaths of 37 miners in detention

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Nigeria's government has appointed a 10-member independent panel to investigate the deaths of 37 people in a paramilitary civil defence force holding cell, the interior minister said Saturday. Thirty-seven young men were found dead inside a crowded cell in Minna, the capital of central Niger state, on Thursday after their arrest on suspicion of illegal gold-mining by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). Survivors recounted being......

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