At least two persons died in a fire accident at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Cameroon’s Far North Region, officials and local police said on Friday. The fire, which broke out in a tent, on Thursday night, gutted other shelters in the Ndaba locality that hosts the IDPs. Two children, trapped in […]
By Our Correspondent For luring a minor with roasted meat (Suya) and defiling her, a 50-year-old security guard will spend this weekend in a Correctional facility in Lagos. An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court ordered that the guard, Mohammed Sanni, be remanded in the facility for allegedly defiling the 13-year-old girl. The presiding Chief Magistrate, O.A. Layinka […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde The Yaba College of Technology’s Research Team has received N34 million grant for cancer treatment from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). TheNewsZenith reports that TETFunde awarded the grant under its National Research Fund programme. The grant will enable the researchers to develop an artificial intelligence-based precision medicine solution for prostate cancer […]
The Israeli military has killed four people and injured more after bombing a kindergarten hosting displaced Palestinians in the town of Az-Zawayda near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports. The deceased and the injured were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah. We will bring you more information on […]
From Yinka Salaam, Osogbo A media watch group, Muslim Media Watch Group (MMWG), has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) not to shield any individual or group involved in financial crimes in the country. MMWG, a non-governmental organisation, made the call in a statement made available to TheNewsZenith on Friday, in Osogbo, […]
By Omo Odigie Not a few political observers have described Dr Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, APC’s leading aspirant for the Edo State gubernatorial race as a greenhorn in partisan politics, having retired as a federal civil servant in January this year. How wrong they all are as events have increasingly shown, lending credence to the biblical […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke Recently, I started a discourse on Telling Sustainable Development Stories. But the truth is, most mass media in Africa are at crossroads of playing the role of societal watchdog. Functioning as the fourth estate of the realm demands independence, objectivity, balance and a correct appreciation of differences between public and national interests […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke Father translates to Abu in Arabic. It’s a sign of honour to so prefix anyone with Abu, attaching one’s child to this honorific. Ummu is the woman version of this nomenclature. It’s also an honorific one can claim even before one’s child comes in the expectation that when he finally arrives, you […]
From Our Correspondent The Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Owan Enoh has secured the sum of N200m for the Super Eagles of Nigeria ahead of their semi-final clash at the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cote d’Ivoire. The Special Adviser Media to the Minister, Diana-Mary Nsan in a statement on Wednesday, […]
Oil prices rose for a third day on Wednesday after U.S. crude inventories grew less than expected and a cut in the forecast for output growth in the U.S., the world’s biggest producer, eased concerns about potential oversupply. Brent crude futures rose 56 cents to $79.15 a barrel as of 1159 GMT, while U.S. West […]