Ekeomah Atuonwu At least 14 people have died and another four dozen are feared to have been killed after a massive landslide in a remote area of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. Rescue workers battled heavy rains to pull out 19 survivors from the rubble on Thursday morning after the landslide at a railway […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu On Friday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) revealed that 12 African nations had recorded 1,782 cases of monkeypox. During a weekly briefing, Ahmed Ogwell, interim head of Africa CDC, stated that of the 1,782 cases of monkeypoxreported in Africa, 1,678 were suspected cases and 104 were confirmed cases. He stated that instances have […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday night expressed appreciation to Portugal for the deployment of weapons and training of military personnel to ensure peace in Africa. At a State Dinner in National Palace Ajuda, Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, Buhari commended President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for deploying troops for peacekeeping in the Central African Republic, monitoring political developments and providing assistance to […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Doctors and bankers were among hundreds of Sri Lankans who marched on Wednesday to demand the government resolve a severe fuel shortage at the heart of the Indian Ocean island’s worst economic crisis in decades or step down. Weeks of street demonstrations against cascading woes such as power cuts and shortages of food and medicine brought a change […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Ifedayo Adetifa, Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, says the NCDC has noticed an increase in monkeypox cases in the country. During a virtual media forum on monkeypox on Tuesday, he cautioned that if the present trend persisted, Nigeria might approach or exceed the highest number of cases witnessed in 2017 when monkeypox re-emerged. According to the most […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The remains of 20 migrants who went missing in the Libyan desert near Chad have been discovered, according to the ambulance service, which showed images of them laying around a black pick-up vehicle on the sand. The dead were discovered by a truck driver traveling across the desert on Tuesday, around 320 kilometers […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu South African authorities are still seeking answers days after 21 underage teenagers partying after the end of school exams died in a mysterious incident at a tavern. As reported earlier, the bodies of many of the victims, the youngest a 13-year-old girl, were discovered by police lying on tables, slumped in chairs and couches, and […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Officials have announced that priceless artifacts seized and looted from African nations during Germany’s colonial past would be permanently returned. The Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees the German capital’s various museums, announced on Monday that it has begun discussions with Namibia, Tanzania, and Cameroon to return artifacts. A shell-studded figure of […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu A former Nigerian deputy senate president has been accused with planning to take a youngster to the United Kingdom in order to harvest organs. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, appeared earlier on Thursday at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court in west London. The accused victim, a 15-year-old boy, has been brought into […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The death toll in the powerful earthquake that struck a remote border region of Afghanistan overnight, has reached 1000, leaving several injured. The 5.9 magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged terrain of the east, where people already lived hardscrabble lives in a country in the grip of a humanitarian disaster made worse […]
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