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“A traumatized and exhausted population” is being “crammed into a smaller and smaller sliver of land,” UN emergency relief chief Martin Griffiths warned on social platform X on Friday. But serious obstacles persist to bringing more aid to those in need amid relentless Israeli bombardment and intense fighting on the …

Vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Folashade Ogunsola has said that the weak Naira led to a mass exodus of lecturers from the country.    Speaking at a media parley, Professor Ogunsola said the education sector suffered from the country’s dwindling economy in 2023, leaving the sector bereft of …

Three people have been killed and nine wounded in an explosion at a Catholic Mass in the Philippines.  According to the BBC, the incident occurred in a gymnasium at the Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi on Sunday morning, Dec. 3.  In 2017, the city was the scene of a …

Former US President, Donald Trump is planning to carry out widespread expansion of his first administration’s hardline immigration policies if he is elected to a second term in 2024, according to a new report by The New York Times and CNN   The plans include rounding up undocumented immigrants already …

Maine mass shooter, Robert Card,  who murdered 18 people at a bowling alley, has been found dead in the woods with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, ending a 48-hour manhunt involving over 300 members of law enforcement.     Androscoggin sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook: ‘The suspect in Wednesday night’s …

Maine State Police said they are investigating an active shooter situation in Lewiston, Maine, U.S. after multiple people were reported shot at three separate locations.   According to multiple law enforcement officials who briefed on the matter, 22 people were killed, and fifty to 60 people were wounded after a …

Kwankwaso told the newlyweds that checking each other’s phones is the major cause of marriage breakups in recent times. Former Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has advised couples at the mass wedding organised by the Kano State government to resist the urge to check their spouses’ phones.

Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party in the 2023 election, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has advised the 1,800 couples under the Kano mass wedding scheme against checking their spouses’ phones.   Speaking at the reception organised for the couples by the State Government at the Open Theatre in Kano …

The Kano state government on Saturday, October 14, conducted a mass wedding ceremony for 1800 couples.    Most of the beneficiaries are primarily widows and divorcees.   At the wedding ceremony officiated by Islamic clerics, the state government paid almost N50,000 in dowry on behalf of each groom to their …

Hamas today launched a barrage of rockets at the port city of Ashkelon – hours after the terrorists warned Israeli civilians living there to leave before 5pm or die in response to the airstrikes aimed at the Gaza strip.      A series of rockets were fired at the city …