Libya’s ministry of public health has confirmed that 25 people had been killed and 80 wounded in the recent clashes in the country. It said victims included civilians and soldiers. At least, 2,800 people have now fled the fighting near Tripoli, the capital, according to the United Nations. The UN appealed for a two-hour truce, […]
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Save the Children, an international non-governmental organisation, has revealed in its new report that at least 550,000 babies have reportedly died as a result of armed conflict between 2013 and 2017 in the 10 worst-affected countries. The organisation said this is an average of over 100,000 every year. The countries include: Afghanistan, Yemen, South Sudan, […]
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Executive Directors of the World Bank yesterday unanimously selected David Malpass as the new President of the World Bank Group for a five-year term, beginning on Tuesday, April 9. In a press release published on its website yesterday, the World Bank said Malpass appointment followed a transparent nomination process where any national of the Bank’s […]
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A World Health Organisation (WHO), report say men are more likely to die earlier than women due to uneven access to health services. According to “2019 World Health Statistics”, published on the WHO website on Thursday, the trend is similar in low and high income countries as men often seek health care services less than […]
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The National Judicial Commission (NJC) has recommended compulsory retirement for Walter Onnoghen, the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria. It was gathered that members of the NJC, the disciplinary body for judicial officers, made the recommendation to President Muhammadu Buhari after deciding that Justice Onnoghen has lost the “moral authority” to continue as the country’s top […]
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday offered his “apologies” to the Algerian people in a letter published by state media after he resigned as president in the face of huge protests. “I leave the political stage without sadness or fear for the future of our country,” Bouteflika said in the letter released by the APS news agency. […]
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The President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has affirmed he will resign before his mandate ends on April 28, state news agency APS said on Monday. APS said Bouteflika, who is 82 and in poor health, would take important decisions to ensure “continuity of the state’s institutions” before stepping down. It did not spell out a […]
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Steve Hanke, an economist from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, has compiled data that classified Nigerians as the sixth “most miserable people in the world”. The criteria for arriving at the Misery Index were: economic indices including unemployment, inflation and bank lending rates. For Nigeria, the unemployment rate was the major contributing factor. “The […]
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A new report has revealed that one of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302’s pilots told the other “pitch up, pitch-up” moments before the Boeing 737 Max jetliner crashed three weeks ago. The Wall Street Journal, said that instruction and other information about the plane’s final moments shows a flight crew that was quickly overwhelmed. The Ethiopian […]
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The number of measles cases is projected to increase further in Lithuania as people have lost their collective immunity to this highly contagious viral disease. The Director of Lithuania’s Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC), Saulius Caplinskas, said on Friday. “The collective immunity has been lost as a 95 per cent measles vaccination coverage […]
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