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Gas leaks triggered a series of powerful explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, killing at least 20 people and injuring up to 270, officials said Friday, warning that the toll is expected to rise.

Before the announcement by the Sultan declaring that the moon had been sighted, marking the end of Ramadan on Satuday July 26, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the Secretary-General of the NSCIA, had been quoted saying: “The new moon has not even been born talk less that it would be sighted today.”

West Africa’s Ebola-hit nations imposed stringent new rules on Thursday to tackle the world’s worst-ever outbreak of the tropical virus and agreed to launch a $100 million response plan at an emergency regional summit.

EBOLA hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976.

The operated like the Biblical thief in the night. But since he was not Jesus Christ, the Messiah, he was promptly arrested by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of AIG Suleiman Abba as the new Inspector‑General of Police.

Somehow, and in recent times, the sighting of the moon, beginning and ending of the Ramadan fast have paradoxically become a source of division, rather than unity for the Muslim Ummah in this country.

ILORIN— An Islamic cleric, simply identified as Alfa Gani was, Wednesday night, caught in Laduba, Ogidi area of Ilorin West Local Government Area, making concoction with the placenta of a new baby girl he performed her naming ceremony the previous day.

In the normal (by Nigerian standard) week that witnessed shedding of innocent blood in Kaduna and other places, I join other Nigerians in celebrating the miraculous escape of the former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari from attempts on his life. The country has been saved from the proverbial “monkey and baboon soaked in blood” episode, perhaps on a larger proportion to the last bloody clashes witnessed after the 2011 presidential election. It was also pleasing news that President Jonathan recognized this while expressing sympathy on those who lost their lives in the dastardly attacks.