The election to replace outgoing UK Prime Minister Liz Truss as leader of the Conservative Party should take place by October 28, the official in charge said Thursday. This is following the resignation of Truss on Thursday, just 45 days after assuming the office, the shortest tenure of any British prime minister. …
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Ebola Outbreak In Uganda Manageable – Africa CDC
Africa Centre for Disease Control, on Thursday, said the Ebola outbreakEbola outbreak Acting Director of Africa CDC, Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, told reporters at an online briefing that “the risk is there but it is a manageable risk,’’ adding that at this stage there was no need to go into “full …
Read More »Troops Eliminate 31 Terrorists, Arrest 70 In North-East
The Defence Headquarters on Thursday said Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have eliminated 31 Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province terrorists and arrested 70 of them and their collaborators. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, said in Abuja at the bi-weekly news briefing on the operations …
Read More »Women’s Group Decries Flooding In Niger Delta
The Ijaw Women in America has said 600 people have been killed and millions displaced from their homes by flood in the Niger Delta. The women also raised the alarm about the worsening living conditions of the flood victims. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the National President …
Read More »PHOTONEWS: Dummy Coffins, Bloodstained Flags At #EndSARSmemorial Procession
Youths in their numbers on Thursday morning showed up with dummy coffins and bloodstained Nigerian flags at Lekki toll gate in Lagos State to commemorate the second-year memorial of the EndSARS protest shooting. The procession passed through the Lekki Tollgate, the scene of the killings that took place on Tuesday, …
Read More »NDDC: Group Seeks Buhari’s Approval For Akeredolu’s Nominee
A group, under the auspices of the Niger Delta Development Ambassadors, has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to appoint an Ondo State indigene as the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission. Specifically, the group said a former Chairman of the Ondo State Oil-Producing Areas …
Read More »BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Liz Truss Resigns
The United Kingdom Prime Minister, Liz Truss, on Thursday, reportedly stepped down from his role. Her resignation was coming barely two months after coming into office.
Read More »Romelu Lukaku Returns To Training After Thigh Injury
Romelu Lukaku returned to team training with Inter Milan on Thursday as the Belgium striker recovers from a thigh injury that has kept him out of action since August. Lukaku hasn’t played for Inter since picking up the injury to his left thigh during training in the days after his …
Read More »Saying my 30 Days In Jail Was Terrible An Understatement — Inibehe Effiong
eminiscing the events that made up his 30 days in Uyo prison, human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, speaks with BABATUNDE TITILOLA on his experience in prison, observations of the Nigerian Correctional Service and general issues that are truncating a proper criminal justice system obtainable in some other countries What was your experience …
Read More »Students Coalition Demand Immediate Shutdown Of Lafarge Cement Over Alleged Funding Of Terrorists, Threatens Mass Protest
OUR attention has been drawn to a news flying around and as widely reported on notable media platforms that the United States justice department in Brooklyn has fined Lafarge, a French cement company, with $778 million after pleading guilty to making payments to terrorists to retain its operations in Syria. …
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