•Lassa Fever outbreak The Anambra State government has activated an emergency response following the confirmation of a Lassa fever case involving a patient linked to the Omasi community in the Ayamelum Local Government Area. The patient is receiving treatment at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, in Ebonyi State, reports Channels TV. Th...
•Members of a tenant’s union demonstrate inside a Social Housing Agency (AVS) in Madrid, today Demonstrators camping in a central Madrid square vowed today to keep up the pressure on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez over Spain’s housing crisis, as the 87-year-old woman at the centre of the protest called on them to “hold on”. The […]...
•Polio vaccine Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State has commenced an emergency vaccination exercise following the detection of poliovirus in a child in Challawa Ward. The Vice Chairman of the council, Sulaiman Dauda Basarake, who led a stakeholders’ meeting on the outbreak, said the council would work with health officials to ensure th...
The Lagos State University branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU-LASU) has declared a total and indefinite strike over what it described as the failure of the government to implement the 2025 ASUU/FGN Agreement. The union announced the decision yesterday, Tuesday, September 15, following a congress at which members resolved ...
•Diphtheria outbreak The Lagos State government says it has recorded 53 suspected cases of diphtheria in 2026, out of which six were laboratory -confirmed positive. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, disclosed this during a press conference on the state’s Diphtheria Preparedness and Response held at the Conference...
•Prince Adewole Adebayo The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the 2027 general elections, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has urged Nigerians to vote for politicians who will improve their lives, not to vote based on sentiments. Adabayo blamed Nigeria’s persistent crises on bad governance, weak institutions and a political class...
•Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State The Lagos State government has announced a major shift in fever management after revealing that 95 percent of fever cases in the state are not caused by malaria, warning healthcare providers against treating patients without laboratory confirmation. The government declared that only about five per ce...
The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress for the 2027 election, Peter Obi, says he may not be alive to contest the poll, alleging that the government is frustrating his activities and targeting opposition figures. Obi made the remarks during an interview on “With Chude”, which media personality Chude Jideonwo p...
•Flood The Director General and Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NiHSA, Umar Mohammed, says last week’s devastating floods in Lagos State and some other states across the country were not a surprise. The DG added that NiHSA’s forecasts and warnings were disregarded, reports Sunday Vanguard. According to him, befor...
•Lagos floods Heavy rainfall that swept across Lagos over the weekend has triggered widespread outrage, with many residents criticising the Lagos State government over recurring flooding that submerged major roads, stranded motorists, disrupted commercial activities and left homes underwater across the metropolis. The downpour, which lasted fo...
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