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EndSARS Anniversary: Falz Calls Youth To Shun Police Order
In spite of the warning by the Lagos police, Nigerian rapper, Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz, has called on the youth to come out en masse for the first […]
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Colin Powell, a retired general and first black US secretary of state, is dead.
Powell, who was also a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was said to have died of COVID complications on Monday.
The deceased family confirmed his death via a Facebook post.
According to the family, the late Powell was fully vaccinated and was treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
“General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19,” the family said.
“He was fully vaccinated. We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment.
“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
Powell served as national security advisor to former President Ronald Reagan from 1987 to 1989 and was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under ex-President George HW Bush in 1989.
He was appointed as secretary of state in 2001 Under the Bush administration, becoming the first black person in US history to be so appointed.
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