The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday announced the inclusion of noma disease in its official list of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The decision was recommended by the 17th meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases. The decision has been welcomed because it is likely to expand health services to…
Africa should strive and start a continental media outlet that would promote African interests, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said. He said this while delivering a lecture on opportunities to a visiting delegation of Senior Military Officers from the National Defense College of Kenya led by the Deputy Commandant of the College Major General Kahariri.…
By Agencies- Nigeria: The Christmas season turned tragic for a 60-year-old herbalist, Ani Ikoneto, as he died from injuries he sustained when his dog bit off and ate his private parts. The herbalist who lived at Jebbs Street in Calabar South in Nigeria, according to neighbours, went on a drinking spree on Christmas Eve and returned…
Former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has amended a petition challenging the outcome of the just-concluded presidential race which was filed in the Supreme Court by his team. The results released by the Electoral Commission gave Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, a candidate of the National Resistance Movement-NRM party, a 58 percent majority victory, against Kyagulanyi’s…
Last month, the Dubai Police Force arrested twelve alleged Nigerian scammers living in the United Arab Emirates as part of their now-viral special operation dubbed “Fox Hunt 2.” Six raids were conducted concurrently while the suspects were asleep; among several items, Dubai police reportedly seized more than $40 million in cash and hard disks containing the addresses…
By Mail & Guardian Nigeria: Ibrahim Magu’s job requires him to not be corrupt. As acting chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the government body whose sole function is to investigate and prosecute financial crimes, it would be ironic if he were alleged to be involved in financial crimes. It would be…
Nigeria on Friday morning announced the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa. “The case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on the 25th of February 2020,” Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in a statement on Twitter. https://twitter.com/Fmohnigeria/status/1233180000872026114?s=19 “The patient is clinically stable, with no serious…
General overseer of the Prophetic Hill Chapel, Prophet Nigel Gaisie made some shocking claims concerning the sudden death of basketball legend, Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant. The man of God while preaching and prophesying to his congregations said he is capable of raising Kobe Bryant and his daughter from the dead. However, there…
A man of God in a bus in Anambra was beaten to stupor because a condom fell off from his Bible after preaching. The shocking incident happened yesterday January 12, 2019 in Anambra state, Nigeria. Some of the believers maintained that he’s being hypocritical and that he is among the reasons people have lost hopes…
