WHO decries ‘collective failure’ as measles kills 140,000
Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization, WHO said on Thursday. In figures described by its director-general as “an outrage”, the WHO said most of last year’s measles deaths were in children […]
2023: Tinubu, Atiku best Presidents Nigeria may never have – Ohanaeze youths Council
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has on Thursday said that the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last Presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu are the two best president Nigeria may never have.
Sustain border drill policy – Ganduje urges Buhari
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, of Kano State, on Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to sustain the Border Drill Policy and assistance to rice farmers for Nigeria to attain food sufficiency.
Sowore: We have not violated court order — DSS
The Department of State Services (DSS), on Thursday, said it did not violate the court order on the release of Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. Counsel to the DSS, Hassan Liman, SAN, made the remark in an interview with newsmen shortly after the Federal High Court sitting in the ongoing […]
INEC to conduct 28 outstanding court-ordered re-run in January 2020
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Jan. 25, 2020 to conduct 28 outstanding court-ordered re-run elections in 12 states. The commission announced this in a statement issued by Mr. Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee on Thursday in Abuja. Okoye said that the decision was arrived at the […]
UPDATED: DSS releases Sowore, Bakare from detention
Following a 24-hour ultimatum that was handed to it by the Federal High Court in Abuja, the Department of State Service, DSS, on Thursday evening, released pro-democracy activist and convener of the RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, from detention. Sowore, who was the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the last general election […]
