Tanzanian authorities have mobilised more than 600 firefighters to put out a fire on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, an official said in Dar-Es-Salaam on Sunday. Nurdin Babu, the Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner, told Xinhua in a telephone interview that the firefighters have been drawn from the Tanzania Fire and Rescue Force, the Tanzania National Parks, police, […]
A Ugandan court on Friday in Kampala sentenced a man to life in prison after he was found guilty of illegal possession of ivory, a wildlife regulation authority said. Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) said Pascal Ochiba was found guilty of possession of two pieces of ivory weighing 9.5 kilogrammes without a wildlife use right. Offences […]
Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing, on Wednesday in Abuja confirmed that the construction of the second Niger bridge has reached its completion stage. Fashola announced this at an ongoing press briefing to present President Muhammadu Buhari’s scorecard. According to him, the bridge will soon be released to the public for use. […]
Veld fires in Zimbabwe have killed 18 people this year, with the hectarage burnt up 58.6 per cent from last year, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday. “The nation is being informed that the year 2022 is showing an upsurge in uncontrolled fire problems threatening the gains made in the past,” said Monica Mutsvangwa, Minister […]
The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria (CoSAP) has called for an immediate investigation into the fire that gutted the Kogi Assembly Complex last week Monday in Lokoja. Mr Abubakar Sulaiman, Chairman of the CoSAPmade the call in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr Abdul Bura in Bauchi. Recall that on […]
The Nigeria Security and Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Jigawa says two teenage girls drowned in separate incidents in Dutse and Kafin Hausa Local Government Areas of the state. The NSCDC spokesperson in the state, Adamu Shehu, confirmed the incidents to the newsmen on Tuesday in Dutse, the state capital. Shehu said the deceased, Maimuna Hassan, […]
No fewer than eleven people died in a road crash at Hawan Jaki village along the Alkaleri-Gombe road on Saturday in Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Nine others sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crash that involved 20 people. The accident involved a Hiace bus belonging to Yankari Express owned by the […]
By Agency Report Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday heightened the need to develop a national veld fire management strategy. This is coming after 10 farm workers were burnt to death on Monday in a veld fire in Esigodini, Matabeleland South Province. “A new national strategy is now needed to minimise this growing menace whose […]
Two persons were burnt beyond recognition while three others sustained injuries when a tanker, laden with petrol exploded at Ilo-Awela Junction, at Toll-Gate area on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Mr Ahmed Umar, the Ogun Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), who confirmed the development to newsmen in Ota, said that the incident happened at about 1.30 […]