The Nigerian Army has remained silent on the death of two leaders from the Okuama community, Delta State. Okuama’s President-General, Pa James Oghoroko, and the 81-year-old community’s treasurer, Dennis Okugbaye, died in army’s custody within six days intervals, reports Sunday PUNCH. Both Oghoroko and Okugbaye were reportedly detained by the m...
•Nigerian soldiers The Defence Headquarters has rejected claims by Amnesty International that 10, 000 persons died in its custody since the Boko Haram conflict began in the northeast. The international human rights organisation’s Country Director, Isa Sanusi, at a briefing in Maiduguri, accused Boko Haram and the military of many abuses, repor...
Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has confirmed that the state has recorded 23 deaths and 48 confirmed cases of Lassa fever between January and December 2024. Nwifuru reported that 25 individuals infected with Lassa fever were treated and discharged, expressing grief over those who lost their lives and commending Doctors Without Borders...
Concerned Nigerians and other development partners have expressed grave concerns over dangers associated with the use of traditional fire cooking which reportedly causes 78,000 deaths on an annual basis across the country. The stakeholders including policymakers, private sector players, researchers, and civil society organisations (CSOs) expre...
•Flood No fewer than 259 people have been killed out of a total of 1,048,312 individuals affected by the recent flood disaster that ravaged 29 states across the country. Speaking on the current trend of flooding nationwide, the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs. Zubaida Umar, disclosed during the National...
A total of 146 cases of cholera with seven deaths have been recorded in Delta state even though the majority of the victims were young children. Of the figure, 138 cases were recorded in Warri south west, one in Oshimili south and seven cases in Bomadi council areas in three outbreaks which occurred in February, […]
•Oropouche virus Brazil has recorded the world’s first Oropouche virus deaths, the country’s health ministry said yesterday, after two women died of the illness spread by infected flies and mosquitos. The women from the state of Bahia in northeast Brazil were “under 30 years old, with no comorbidities, but who had signs and symptoms similar [&...
•Haruna, Saidu and David The University of Maiduguri in Borno State is in grief as it has again recorded the fourth loss of yet another professor – all within a spate of two months. In a similar development, two lecturers – one with the Federal University, Dutsinma, Katsina State and the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto, […]
•Armed Fulani herdsman The Amnesty International has disclosed that between January 2023 and February 2024, Benue State recorded at least 135 attacks and over 2600 deaths including women and children. The Program Manager of Amnesty International, Mrs Barbara Magaji, stated this during a photo exhibition and press conference on the conflicts in...
Lagos State Government today announced that the total number of deaths recorded in the ongoing cholera outbreak has climbed to 29, saying that these were from the 579 patients that were attended to in various healthcare facilities in the state, including General and Private hospitals as well as primary healthcare centres. The State Commissione...
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