Many players of the Kano Pillars FC U-19 team sustained injuries in a road accident today while en route to the New Jos Stadium for their Matchday 5 fixture in the inaugural U-19 Youth League against Plateau United U-19. According to the media directorate of the team, several players and the driver sustained injuries in […]
•Petrol tanker explosion A petrol tanker exploded at Majiya Town, Taura Local Government Area, Jigawa State in a devastating incident this morning, leading to the loss of lives of over 90 people, with 50 others hospitalised. The explosion occurred around 12:30am when the driver of the tanker, travelling from Kano to Nguru in Yobe State, [&hell...
•Late Rebecca Cheptegei The man who attacked Ugandan runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died from injuries sustained when he poured petrol over the Olympic athlete, the Kenyan hospital treating him said today. Police said that Dickson Ndiema Marangach assaulted Cheptegei in her home in western Kenya on September 1. The mother-of-two sustained 80 per...
•Bandits Bandits yesterday invaded the Primary Healthcare Centre at Kuyallo, Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, kidnapping two nurses and an unspecified number of patients. According to Musa Alhassan, one of the leaders of a local vigilante group, the bandits initially targeted the nearby Government Day Secondary School, arri...
•Federal Road Safety Commission officials at accident scene A couple, Mr and Mrs Mohammed Alhassan, Shettima Sheshi, have died in a car crash on the Agaie-Katcha road in Niger State. It was learnt that Mr Sheshi was rushing his wife, Fatima, who was in labour, to the Agaie General Hospital when the incident happened, reports […]
•Hungary’s forward Kevin Csoboth celebrates goal while showing Hungary’s forward Barnabas Varga’s jersey Hungary striker, Barnabas Varga left hospital today after having surgery on multiple facial fractures he suffered in a sickening collision during the 1-0 win over Scotland at Euro 2024. “Barnabas Varga was released from th...
•Britain’s Princess Anne Princess Anne, sister of King Charles III, was in hospital today with “minor injuries and concussion” after apparently being injured by a horse. The incident took place at Anne’s country home Gatcombe Park, in southwest England, late yesterday, Buckingham Palace said in a statement. It is the latest health issue to hit...
Two people were dead and 21 wounded after a man went on a stabbing spree at a hospital in southwest China today, local officials said. “A knife attack occurred at the Chengnan Hospital in Zhenxiong County, which resulted in two deaths and 21 injuries,” a statement on the county’s official WeChat account said. The suspect […]
•Babcock University Teaching Hospital The management of Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan Remo, has launched a search party for the children of one of its patients, 81-year-old Mr Maurice Okpenyong, who has been abandoned at its medical facility. This was according to a statement issued by the Director of Communication of the univer...
•Lassa Fever The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr Jide Idris, has confirmed the outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic fever (Lassa fever) that claimed the lives of three staff members of 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna. Briefing journalists yesterday in Abuja, Idris said that the NCD...

