•Damaged homes after the cyclone Chido hit the archipelago yesterday Cyclone Chido killed at least 94 people in Mozambique in its deadly rampage through the Indian Ocean last week, the country’s disaster management agency said yesterday, raising a previous death toll of 76, reports AFP. The cyclone, which devastated the French island territory...
Jigawa State governor, Umah Namadi has placed the current death toll in the tanker fire incident that affected the state recently at 181, with another 80 persons in critical condition at the hospital. Namadi who was at the Presidential Villa today to brief the President on the situation revealed that a total of 210 families […]
•Jigawa explosion scene A total of 167 persons have so far lost their lives following Tuesday’s fuel tanker explosion in Majiya town in the Taura Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The Jigawa State governor, Umar Namadi, made the disclosure when the Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, paid him a condolence visit at the Government […]...
Five more people in Rwanda have died of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, bringing the number of fatalities to 11, the health ministry said late yesterday. With a fatality rate of up to 88 per cent, the highly infectious hemorrhagic fever is often accompanied by bleeding and organ failure, reports AFP. Some 29 people have […]
•FRSC officials rescuing victims of the accident The number of fatalities from Sunday’s accident along Saminaka Road in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State has risen to 25. This is according to a statement by the sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Kaduna State, Corps Commander Kabiru Nadabo, who said that […]...
•Kenya floods The death toll from flood-related incidents in Kenya has crossed 200 since March, the interior ministry said today, as a cyclone barrelled towards the Tanzanian coast. Torrential rains have lashed much of East Africa, triggering flooding and landslides that have destroyed crops, swallowed homes, and displaced hundreds of thousand...
•A girl and a boy carry a piece of furniture after visiting their house that was destroyed by floods The number of people who have lost their lives in floods in Kenya has risen to 188, the interior ministry said today, as the country continues to battle heavy rains. Many parts of the East […]
•Boat mishap The death toll from the sinking of a makeshift ferry boat off the north coast of Mozambique has risen to 96, local authorities said today. The converted fishing boat, carrying about 130 people, ran into trouble on Sunday as it was trying to reach an island off Nampula province, officials said. “Five more […]
•Moscow concert hall The number of deaths including children in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, the Russian capital, has reached 93. The Investigative Committee of Russia made this known today on its Telegram channel. Earlier, some gunmen attacked the concert hall, killing at least 60 people and wounding 100 more, Russian [...

