Former Oyo Central Senator and first female speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, Alhaja Monsurat Sunmonu, has joined the list of prominent Nigerians who condemned killing of Deborah Samuel in Sokoto. Recall that Miss Samuel, a 200 level student of the Shehu Shagari College of […]
Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto, has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the state following the killing of Deborah Samuel, a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education. Deborah was killed by a mob over alleged blasphemy on Thursday. Her killing had sparked outrage and […]
Russia warned Finland that it would “be forced” to retaliate if the long-neutral country joined the Western military alliance, NATO, imminently, amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry disclosed this in a statement Thursday. The statement read, “Finland joining NATO […]
A Chief Nursing Officer at the Department of Public Health, University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Mrs Omobosede Ayebameru, has called for measures by government at all levels to ensure the country does not run out of nurses required for effective health care delivery in the […]
Executive Secretary, Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, says higher institutions in the country are bedeviled by corruption. He spoke in Abuja on Tuesday at the maiden meeting of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) management with registrars of corps-producing institutions in Nigeria. He also […]
Al Jazeera journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh has been shot dead while reporting on a raid by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. The Qatar-based news channel said Abu Aqleh, 51, was shot “deliberately” and “in cold blood” by Israeli troops. […]
A woman who flew to Ukraine via Poland to rescue her paralyzed brother fears “the forgotten causalities of war” are people with disabilities. Olena Florek, from Staffordshire, travelled to Warsaw to try to get a UK visa for brother Volodymyr. After waiting 24 hours for […]
Dozens of people are feared dead after a bomb hit a school in east Ukraine, where government forces are battling Russian troops and separatists. Luhansk region’s governor, Serhiy Gaidai, confirmed two deaths, saying 60 people were feared dead under the rubble of the school in […]
Mozambique is planning a new law that will regulate Churches’ activities, impose taxes on them, and require them to have a minimum number of 200 signatures in order to register. Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs Minister Helena Kida said a government analysis had revealed “warning signs” amid […]
Pope Francis used a wheelchair in public on Thursday for the first time since a new flare-up of pain in his knee has limited his ability to walk, reports say. At an audience for a group of nuns, Francis was wheeled to his seat on […]