Cote d’Ivoire has recorded a first case of Ebola, the health minister announced late Saturday, the first occurrence of the deadly disease in nearly three decades. Officials at the Institut Pasteur had confirmed the case after testing samples taken from an 18-year-old Guinean woman, Health Minister Pierre N’Gou Demba...
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Rescue workers were scrambling to find survivors after a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing at least 304 and toppling buildings in the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation still recovering from a devastating 2010 quake. The epicenter of the shaking, which rattled homes and sent terrified locals fleeing for safety starting...
Bandits have killed an unspecified number of farmers who were abducted in Buruku and Udawa villages in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Confirming the incident on Sunday, the spokesman of the Kaduna State Command, Mohammed Jalige, said victims were kidnapped from their farms during an attack on...
A group of women, known as “Able Women”, have taken up the repair of the dilapidating access road to their community, Byazhin- Across, a community in Kubwa, a suburb of Abuja. The access road leading to the community has been in a bad state, causing accidents for the residents....
By MARK JANG, Jos – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Plateau chapter, has condemned the killing of travellers at Rukuba road, in Jos North Local Government Area of the state. NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that some criminals on Saturday, attacked a convoy of buses conveying commuters, killed 22...
Gov. Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has given an insight into how cattle rustling snowballed into the current spate of kidnapping and banditry in the North West Zone of the country. The governor spoke in Katsina when he appeared on NAN Forum, attributed part of the security challenges...
The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, has dismissed speculations that he may seek another political office at the end of his second term in 2023. The governor, who spoke when he appeared at NAN Forum, said having served the people in various capacities, he would not seek political...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), haa condemned the deaths of three children in an explosion in Borno State. The children were reportedly killed by unexploded remnants of war on Friday. “The avoidable deaths of the children – as young as 12 years –...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Saturday in Gwoza, received another Chibok girl who presented herself to the Nigerian Army troops. The schoolgirl, identified as Hassana Adamu, alongside her two children, were handed over to Governor Zulum by the Commander, 26 Taskforce Brigade,...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), has predicted three days of thunderstorms and rains across the country. This prediction was contained in NiMet`s weather outlook released on Saturday in Abuja. Thunderstorms were predicted over parts of Taraba, Kebbi, Zamfara, Bauchi, Kano, Yobe and Kaduna states in the morning hours on...
A tour bus rollover in New York State on Saturday left dozens of people injured, New York State Police said. At approximately 12:41 p.m. local time (1641 GMT), New York State Police responded to a rollover crash involving a tour bus on a toll road in the town of...
Lionel Messi was introduced to some 49,000 fans in a full Parc des Princess stadium before watching his teammates beat Strasbourg 4-2 on Saturday’s Ligue 1 action. The former Barcelona ace was presented with PSG’s other four summer signings Sergio Ramos, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Georginio Wijnaldum, and Achraf Hakimi in...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it has recorded 665 new cases of COVID-19 and eight deaths across the country on Saturday. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Sunday morning, said that the country additional infections, though higher...
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the Saturday attacks on travellers from a religious event in Bauchi, passing through Rukuba, near Jos, Plateau. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Saturday in Abuja, regretted the reported deaths of at...
Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano says that Prof. Chukwuma Soludo is the best person to succeed him as the next governor of the state. Obiano made the statement at the 2021 New Yam Festival of Isuofia Community in Aguata Local Government Area held at Isuofia Civic Center on...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared Alhaji Ahmed Mannir of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of Saturday’s by-election for the Lere Federal Constituency in Kaduna State. Declaring the result in Saminaka, the Returning Officer, Prof. Adamu Wada said Mannir...
Plateau government has imposed curfew on Bassa, Jos North and Jos South Local Government Areas, following Saturday’s attacks on commuters around Jos North Local Government, where 23 persons were reportedly killed and 23 injured. Gov. Simon Lalong in a statement by his Director of Press and Public Affairs ,...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has revealed that over 2,000 houses, 5,000 farmlands as well as properties worth millions of naira have been destroyed by flood that ravaged over 17 villages in Kirfi LGA of Bauchi State. NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that residents of the...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – As part of its Coperate Social Responsibility programmes, BUA Cement Company has supported 12 schools in Sokoto with furniture and teaching aids, granted scholarship to 30 students, and also trained 50 women in beautification and design. Presenting ceetificates to the 50 beneficiaries of the...
By DAVID IROJA, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf as the Acting Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court. The appointment which takes effect from August 1 follows the recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC). NJC Director of Information,...