•Word Press Nigerian website owners have been warned to be weary of security vulnerabilities in the Jupiter X Core plugin for WordPress. The warning was handed over by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), via its official X account yesterday. According to the agency, the vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-0366, po...
Nine people have died in a new outbreak of an ‘eye-bleeding’ Ebola-like virus, global health chiefs have warned. Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered, has already infected ten people in the African nation of Tanzania since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, reports Daily Mail UK. Of these infections nin...
The Kano State Police Command, in collaboration with other security agencies, disclosed today that they have received intelligence reports indicating that suspected terrorists are planning attacks on public gatherings in key locations within Kano State. In a statement titled, “Security Alert: Caution Against Suspected Planned Terrorist Attacks...
The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and ConÂtrol (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Christianah AdeyÂeye, has raised the alarm regarding the circulation of suspected substandard and counterfeit Deekins Amoxycillin 500mg capsules in Nigeria. Prof. Adeyeye urged the public to refrain from using or selling these pot...
•COVID-19 emergency responders The federal government, through the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, has urged health authorities to activate heightened alert systems in response to the newly detected XEC COVID-19 variant that is rapidly spreading across the globe. XEC is the latest in a long list of past and current COVID variant...
A report, Cadre Harmonisé (CH) has revealed that approximately 33.1 million people, including 514,474 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos and states are projected to experience a food crisis or worse (CH Phase 3) between June and August 2025. The states identified as being affected include Sokoto, ...
•Dam oozing out excess water The federal government has issued a fresh warning to Nigeria regarding flooding in the country. A statement by the Director General Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), Umar Ibrahim Mohammed, informed that Jebba Dam is currently spilling excess water as regulated by Kainji Dam operators, who had kept 53cm ...
•Protest The Defence Headquarters yesterday said troops had been placed on alert to support the police during the nationwide protest scheduled for today. This was as senior lawyers and civil society organisations cautioned against military deployment during the rally, noting that it could aggravate the situation and trigger violence, reports T...
•Flood The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Joseph Utsev, yesterday warned of potential river flooding on the Niger and Benue rivers At a press briefing in Abuja, the minister said that a large volume of water is flowing through these rivers towards the Niger Delta region. He called for vigilance in all aspects and […]
•Crocodile The Borno Museum Park has raised the alarm over incursion of deadly animals into residential communities. The General manager Borno State Museum Park, Ali Abatcha Don Best, disclosed this in a statement today. He said the flood disaster caused damage to properties and led to the deaths of over 80% of animals. “The General […]...

