Nigerians march for late Afrobeats star as police exhume body
By Reuters
22 September 2023 |
12:25 pm
Nigerians marched in several states this week in an outpouring of grief and to press authorities to investigate the death last week of popular Afrobeats musician Mohbad, forcing the police to exhume his body on Thursday for an autopsy.
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