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FRSC unveils mobile app to curb road crashes nationwide

5 September 2024

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, peaking at the launch in Abuja, described the achievement as a milestone in the annnal of the FRSC. He stated that the digital transformation of the corps’ operational activities aimed to improve administration and deliver on its mandate. According to him, the mobile app and NACRIS […]

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Edo declares cholera outbreak, confirms six cases

5 September 2024

The Director of Public Health in the ministry, Stephenson Ojeifo, announced this during a news conference in Benin. Ojeifo said that the six confirmed cases were identified among the 40 suspected cholera cases recorded to date in the state. He noted that while awaiting the results, the patients were managed in accordance with cholera management […]

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Threat Against PDP Govs: Arrest Wike, charge him for treason – Clark tells IGP

5 September 2024

The Ijaw leader, in a letter to the IGP, during a press briefing at his Asokoro residence, asked Egbetokun to arrest Wike over his threat to set fire in the states of governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Recall, that Wike, while speaking at the PDP secretariat in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on […]

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China-Africa ties ‘best in history’ claims Xi, as Beijing steps up military aid

5 September 2024

China and Africa should rally their populations together to become a powerful force and write a new chapter in peace, prosperity and progress, Xi said in a sweeping speech to delegates from more than 50 African nations as he sought to bolster relationships seen as key to Beijing’s position as a rising global power. Flanked […]

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Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei dies days after being set alight by ex-boyfriend

5 September 2024

The 33-year-old Ugandan marathon runner, who competed in the recent Paris Olympics, had suffered extensive burns after Sunday’s attack. The authorities in north-west Kenya, where Cheptegei lived and trained, said she was targeted after returning home from church. A report filed by a local administrator alleged the athlete and her ex-partner had been wrangling over […]

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Expert explains what makes attending to Nigerian patients challenging

5 September 2024

A family physician,  Oluwafolajimi Senjobi, said that increasingly, attending to the health needs of Nigerian patients is becoming more difficult because a good doctor-patient relationship, has been hampered by economic meltdown, high cost of medication, overhead costs on health deliverables and doctors’s burnout. According to him, difficult patients are usually demanding, noncompliant, dependent, and exhibiting […]

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Fresh attacks claim lives in Plateau communities

5 September 2024

Sources said natives had gone on many social media platforms calling for assistance to repel the attackers, whom they said were lurking around the communities. The Media Officer of Operation Safe Haven, Samson Zhakom said at press time that he was awaiting details of the incident before he could comment. The natives under the aegis […]

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Passenger slumps, dies on commercial bus in Ogun

5 September 2024

It was learnt  that the incident occurred at a filling station in Itori. The command’s spokesperson, Odutola Omolola, confirmed the incident to newsmen and stated that the deceased’s family had been informed. The bus driver, Akeem Olorode, reported the incident to the Ewekoro Divisional Police Headquarters. Odutola said, the driver was en route to Ibadan […]

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Tricycle rider kills mother, severs son’s private part in suspected ritual attack

5 September 2024

Community sources told newsmen that trouble started for the late woman about 10p.m. when she made an effort to rescue her grandson from his father, who severed his private part in a suspected ritual attack. It was gathered that the tricycle rider had attacked his son, and severed his private part which made the boy […]

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Gunmen kill two guards, cop, raze Imo police station

5 September 2024

In two separate attacks, gunmen, on Tuesday night and in the wee hours of Wednesday, killed two vigilante members guarding Isiala Mbano Local Government Area headquarters, and a policeman after setting ablaze the Obowo Police Station in Imo State. News reports gathered on Wednesday that the gunmen also burnt some vehicles parked at the council […]

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