•Lassa Fever The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has confirmed a total of 168 deaths, including 17 probable, due to Lassa fever between January and August 2024. This represents a case fatality rate of 17.1 percent out of the 7,973 suspected cases reported across 127 local government areas in 28 states. In […]
Flood has ravaged communities in Kafanchan and other villages in Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, where two children were swept away and over 1,000 residents displaced. Vice Chairman of Jema’a LGA, Mrs. Christy Usman disclosed this when she received the Kaduna State Impact Assessment Committee on Flood on tour of affected communit...
•Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso A middle-aged man, simply identified as Alfa Ahmed, has reportedly slaughtered his grandfather and uncle in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, for an alleged money ritual. Investigations by our correspondent revealed that the incident happened at the back of a popular market in Apete, in ...
A tricycle rider, identified as Amadi Alozie, has killed his mother, as she tried to rescue her grandson from a suspected ritual attack by his father at Umudosi community in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State. Community sources told our correspondent that trouble started for the late woman about 10p.m. when she made an […]
•Law enforcement responds after a shooting was reported yesterday At least four people died and nine were wounded in a high school shooting in the US state of Georgia yesterday, law enforcement authorities said, with a suspect taken into custody. After the latest chapter of America’s gun violence crisis — nearly 400 mass shootings this [&helli...
•Scene of the accident No less than 16 persons have lost their lives in an accident on the Ore-Benin expressway. According to the Ondo command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), three persons were also injured in the accident that occurred on Monday night. Spokesperson of the command, Samuel Ibitoye in a statement said […]
•OAU main gate The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, today, announced the death of a final year student of the Department of Foreign Languages, Esu Ema. Ema was reportedly killed by a driver, identified as Lasisi Sodiq, near the campus of the institution, reports The PUNCH. A release by the Public […]
•Crocodile A crocodile killed a woman bathing in a river in eastern Indonesia, police and locals said today, with villagers later recovering parts of her body from the slaughtered animal. Indonesia is home to several species of crocodiles that regularly attack and kill humans, reports AFP. Halima Rahakbauw, 54, was swimming in a river in [&hel...
A shocking incident occurred in South Tapanuli regency, North Sumatra, on July 29, resulting in the death of 60-year-old Asgim Irianto. According to Assistant Police Commissioner Maria Marpaung, Irianto was allegedly killed by his 45-year-old neighbour, Parlindungan Siregar. The motive behind the attack was reportedly Siregar’s growing frustra...
•Nigerian soldiers The #EndBadGovernance protest turned bloody in Kaduna State yesterday, following the killing of a teenager by a soldier in the Samaru area of Zaria in the state. The late 16- year old boy, Isma’il Muhammad was said to have been shot by the soldier inside his father’s house, while the security operatives were […]
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