Ebola patient Held By health workers The World Health Organisation (WHO) has commended efforts made in containing the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria. A comment posted on their website. said “the situation in Lagos, Nigeria, where the first ...

Ebola Doctors The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that cases in West Africa's Ebola outbreak this year have risen to 2,240, including 1,229 deaths. The WHO said it was working with the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) to ensure food ...

ebola-outbreak-in-uganda The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said that four additional confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease, who have been managed successfully and are now disease free, have been discharged. Those discharged are ...

BRITAIN NELSON MANDELA Today, the world celebrates the birth of the most respected anti-apartheid leader and a freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela, who is seen as an icon in South Africa. In Nigeria, it was a day of celebration in Delta State, with an event ...

tennis-wimbledon-nick-kyrgios-wimbledon-r4_3166372 Australian teenager, Nick Kyrgios, created a big upset as he defeated Rafael Nadal 7-6 (7-5) 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon. Nadal had no answer for Kyrgios' booming serve ...

aljazeera_journo Australia has summoned a senior Egyptian diplomat, on Tuesday, to protest against the sentencing of an Australian reporter, who is one of the three Al Jazeera journalists jailed for seven years by an Egyptian judge. The three journalists ...

The Adamawa State Director of Press, Mr Ahmad Sajoh, on Monday confirmed the blast that occurred at a football viewing centre in Mubi Local Government Area of Adamawa State, adding that “details will be made known to the community this morning”.

S.Sudan marriage A Sudanese woman awaiting the death penalty for abandoning her religious faith has given birth in jail near the capital, Khartoum. Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag married a Christian man and was sentenced to death for apostasy earlier in ...

India Election India's general election reached a climax on Monday as opposition challenger, Narendra Modi sought a personal mandate in Varanasi, the holy city on the River Ganges, to govern by his modernised brand of Hindu nationalism. Opposition BJP ...

Women-protest-Chibok-girls-abduction Nigerian women in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Wednesday defiled the rains to stage a protest, registering their anger over the continued detention of over 200 Nigerian girls by the Boko Haram sect. The girls ...

Women-protest-Chibok-girls-abduction Nigerian women in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Wednesday defiled the rains to stage a protest, registering their anger over the continued detention of over 200 Nigerian girls by the Boko Haram sect. The girls ...

Frank Mba The Police have confirmed that at least 71 people have been killed, and 124 injured in the blast that rocked the highly populated motor park in Nyanya, about 16km drive from the Abuja city centre. The explosion, according to the Police spokesman, ...

Abott The search for the missing Malaysian plane is still on and Australian leader, Tony Abbott has said that authorities were confident that signals heard in the Indian Ocean were coming from the “black box” flight recorders of the missing aircraft. Speaking in ...

Min of Finance Some well-meaning Nigerians have been reacting to the national Gross Domestic Product as released by the National Bureau for Statistics, describing the exercise as very key in policy making by both the private and public sector of the ...

FILE Explosion Three large explosions suspected to be a major bomb attack has just been experienced in the city of Maiduguri in Borno State. There is no information yet on the impact of the purported attack on lives and property, but our sources say that the ...

FILE Explosion Three large explosions suspected to be a major bomb attack has just been experienced in the city of Maiduguri in Borno State. There is no information yet on the impact of the purported attack on lives and property, but our sources say that the ...

oscar_pistorius_AP150961250065_620x350 Oscar Pistorius vomited in court on Monday as he heard a pathologist's testimony about the nature of his girlfriend's injuries after he fatally shot her. The repeated vomiting caused the judge to briefly delay the ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned the attack on the Federal Government College Buni Yadi in Yobe State, calling it callous, barbaric and senseless. President Jonathan who said that he received the news with immense sadness extended his ...

Anti-gay campaigners celebrated at the national theatre in Uganda's capital, Kampala on Monday (February 24) after President Yoweri Museveni signed into a law, a bill that imposes harsh penalties for homosexuality. Pastor Martin Ssempa a long-time ...

Egypt's courts have begun trying twenty journalists, including four foreigners, among them, Al-Jazeera's Egyptian-Canadian Bureau Chief, Mohamed Adel Fahmy and Australian correspondent, Peter Geste. They face charges, including aiding a terrorist ...