•Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned to a devastated Gaza City, after an Israel-Hamas ceasefire The families of Israeli hostages today demanded that the next steps in the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire be put on hold until Hamas returns the remaining bodies of dead captives. “Hamas knows exactly where every one of the deceased hostages ...
•Relatives mourn during a special prayer ceremony organised for victims of Air India Flight 171 crash Families of the victims of June’s deadly Air India crash demanded today the immediate release of the aircraft’s two flight recorders, saying delays were eroding their trust in the investigation. A total of 241 people on board the London-bound ...
Patients and their families were left stranded at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) today, as medical doctors employed by the Lagos State Government commenced a three-day warning strike over salary-related disputes. The strike, which began at 8:00 a.m., was declared by the Medical Guild following what it described as “illeg...
•Flood Victims of the recent flash flood that ravaged some parts of Ute-Okpu Kingdom in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State have called on government at all levels and well-to-do individual to come to their aid. Speaking on behalf of the victims, Mr. Simon Aliemeke, who now takes refuge at his friend’s […]
•Red oxide Unless something is urgently done to arrest the sliding economy, which has skyrocketed the price of everything in the market, many households in Nigeria may soon suffer one form of food poisoning or the other. It may not be that they intended to do so, but the search for cheaper alternatives to goods […]
•JAMB candidates The Imo State Police Command has said the 15 students who were declared missing on their way from Onitsha in Anambra State to write the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Okigwe in Imo State have been found and reunited with their families. The command announced the development on its X handle [&h...
•Harvard University Harvard University has unveiled a new financial aid initiative that will make tuition free for students from families earning up to $200,000 annually, starting with the 2025–26 academic year. “Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all ...
•Statue of Enugu coal miners 76 years after they were brutally massacred by their British employers for lawfully demanding fair wages in Enugu, families of the 21 deceased coal miners have gone to court to demand justice and adequate compensation for the unfair treatment meted to them. Those sued at the Enugu State High Court […]
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark World Cancer Day, people suffering from the disease have lamented poor access to care and high cost of treatment in the country. They said there are inadequate treatment centres, dearth of advanced equipment as well as poor maintenance of critical cancer care equipment in the […]
•Rehabilitation and Reintegration camp at Mallam Sidi The National Counter Terrorism Centre, Office of the National Security Advisor, says at least 5,000 repented Boko Haram fighters have been reunited with their families. It says none of the ex-combatants returned to the battle ground after six months of the deradicalisation programme, report...

