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A yet-to-be-identified man has died after a cable drum being evacuated from a company’s container landed on him in the Ilemba Hausa area of Lagos state on March 14.   According to police sources, the manager of the electrical company reported to the police that on the said day at …

The fire was at a scale that has never been seen before in the Canary Islands, officials say. Thousands of residents from Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands have been evacuated as a wildfire authorities deemed “out of control” rages on for a fourth day. The Canary Islands emergency services said …

New Zealand’s Women’s World Cup squad had to be evacuated from a downtown hotel on Saturday night after several small fires broke out. New Zealand have police charged a 34-year-old man with burglary and arson and said he is due to appear in Auckland District Court on Monday. It was …

Formula 1 organisers are pressing ahead with this year’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix despite evacuating the circuit due to severe wet weather. The small Italian town of Imola has been inundated with rain of late and a severe weather warning has been issued in the days leading up to the …

More Nigerians have been safely evacuated from wartorn Sudan to Nigeria.    According to the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, another batch of evacuees that departed Port Sudan International Airport landed at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja today, May 6.   The commission made this known in a post shared …

The Federal Government on Friday, May 5, said it successfully evacuated all Nigerians that were stranded in the crisis-ridden Sudanese capital, Khartoum. This was announced by Dr Sani Gwarzo, the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, when he received the second batch of 130 evacuees at the …

Some Nigerians who were stranded in Sudan are currently on their way back home.   A video shared online shows some of them singing the National Anthem as they were being airlifted to Nigeria.   The NAF C-130H aircraft being used to convey them is expected to touch down at …

Bogota, Colombia CNN  —  Hundreds of families in Colombia are facing a choice: abandon their homes and livelihoods, or face the devastation of a predicted volcanic eruption in the coming weeks. The Nevado del Ruiz volcano, one of Colombia’s highest peaks, sits in a densely populated farming area and is …

There was chaos inside an Abuja to Lagos flight on Ibom Air on Friday evening, March 31, after a man was forcefully evacuated from the aircraft for allegedly declaring that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, must not be sworn in as President.   According to reports, the man stood in the …

  There was chaos inside an Abuja to Lagos flight on Ibom Air on Friday evening, March 31, after a man was forcefully evacuated from the aircraft for allegedly declaring that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, must not be sworn in as President.   According to reports, the man stood in …