The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the University of Calabar (UniCal) have inaugurated a campus-wide campaign to end open defecation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the inauguration was preceded by a rally across the UniCal campus in Calabar on Monday. The campaign, led …
What is Ebola and why is stopping this outbreak so difficult? An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been declared a public health emergency of international concern, by the World Health Organization (WHO). Dealing with this outbreak is difficult as it involves a rare strain for …
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has overturned the result of the Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam Federal Constituency primary election in Plateau State, declaring incumbent lawmaker Yusuf Gagdi as the winner. The party announced the reversal on Monday at the APC state secretariat in Jos, barely a day afte…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State has announced the winners of its House of Representatives primary elections conducted across the state on Saturday. Chairman of the Ogun State APC National Assembly Primary Elections Committee, Philip Shaibu, announced the results at the party secre…
On 16 February 2023, then President Muhammadu Buhari signed a law intended to upgrade one of Nigeria’s most strategic training institutions. The law—University of Maritime Studies, Oron (Establishment) Act 2022, gazetted on 15 May 2023, created a new university in Akwa Ibom State and repealed the M…
A drone attack that caused a fire close to the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the United Arab Emirates has raised further concerns about nuclear security and military escalation in the Gulf as discussions of peace between Iran and the United States hang in the balance. Barakah was the first nuclea…
Strike over high fuel prices paralyses transport in Kenya Thousands of Kenyan commuters have been stranded and businesses paralysed as public transport operators went on a nationwide strike to protest against recent increases in the cost fuel. Key roads in the capital Nairobi remained largely empty…
In too many parts of the world, giving birth still comes with more fear than hope: a clinic without electricity, a nurse without supplies, a mother who knows that giving life may cost her own. These fears are not merely emotional, they are borne out by the facts. Every two minutes worldwide, a woma…
Veteran Nigerian broadcaster and television host Frank Edoho has spoken about the emotional struggles many men endure in silence, saying he does not want his death to be attributed to any woman in his life. Edoho made the remarks during an interview on the YouTube podcast Outside the Box, published…
When countries begin to study your institutions, frameworks, and implementation systems, it means your ideas are starting to travel beyond your borders. Nigeria is gradually becoming more than a producer of successful startups. It is becoming a reference point for how African countries can organise…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that an Ebola outbreak in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a “public health emergency of international concern”, setting off alarm bells around the world. The WHO’s announcement on Sunday came as several countries are battling…
Tehran, Iran – The Iranian stock market is due to reopen this week after an 80-day closure due to the war with the United States and Israel. While the exchange is not the core engine of economic financing in sanctions-hit Iran, the reopening could offer an insight into the state of the country’s ec…
Iran has submitted a response to the latest United States proposal to end the war via mediator Pakistan, as a fragile truce comes under growing strain. Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told a press briefing on Monday that Tehran’s response to the latest US proposal had …
DRC health minister visits hotspot for Ebola outbreak The Democratic Republic of the Congo is grappling with its 17th Ebola outbreak, declared an international emergency by the World Health Organization. The DRC’s health minister is visiting the hardest-hit Ituri province, amid fears high regional …
WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DR Congo an international emergency The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of international concern. The agency said the outbreak in DR Congo's eastern Ituri province, which has …
From escaping child marriage 'to an old pervert' to becoming Sierra Leone's first lady It takes Fatima Bio only a moment to respond when we ask what it was like to be an asylum seeker in London. "Better than being married to an old pervert," she says deadpan, before laughing - a reference to her fa…
The Ogun State Government has disclosed that all persons admitted at the State Hospital, Ijebu-Ode, following the recent chemical inhalation incident in some schools within the town, have been discharged after receiving medical attention and being certified fit by health personnel. The Commissioner…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday criticised the Federal Government over what he described as its slow response to the renewed xenophobic tensions in South Africa. Atiku said it was embarrassing that Nigeria had to be pressured into action while smaller African countries moved swiftly …
Listen to story here In a landmark judgment with far-reaching implications for international trade and customs administration in Nigeria, the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal has ruled against the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over its controversial Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) valuatio…
The daughter of veteran Gladiators host and England footballer John Fashanu is set to marry a billionaire African businessman in a lavish wedding held over three days and spanning two continents. Bride Amal Fashanu patched up a bitter feud with her famous father on the eve of her wedding that will …
