WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama said Wednesday it was too soon to send experimental drugs for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, which has been hardest hit by the deadly outbreak.Obama said affected countries should instead focus on building a “strong public infrastructure,” adding: “I think we have to let the science…
Captain Sule on his wedding day in November 2013 Insurgents belonging to the dreaded Islamist group, Boko Haram, have killed Captain Benjamin Sule, a Nigerian army officer who just wedded eight months ago. A close military friend of the late Captain Sule told SaharaReporters that Boko Haram gunmen killed the young, newly wed officer in…
Captain Sule was killed in a battle launched by Boko Haram fighters against our troops between Saturday and Sunday,” said his military friend who is based in the Ikom Barracks in Cross River State.by SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK Captain Sule on his wedding day in November 2013 Insurgents belonging to the dreaded Islamist group, Boko…
Militants with suspected ties to Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have killed 10 people in a raid on a remote village in north Cameroon, police say.Nine bus passengers and a soldier were shot dead after coming “face-to-face” with heavily armed militants in Zigague, they add.The son of a local chief was kidnapped in the attack,…
LAGOS — FOLLOWING the death of the matron that was one of the primary contacts of the late American-Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who died recently of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Lagos, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has described the presence of Ebola in the country as a national emergency. UNITED KINGDOM, London :…
Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Joe Biden have agreed that Nigeria and the United States would work together to urgently curtail the outbreak of Ebola virus. Jonathan and Biden met in Washington D.C on Tuesday on the side-line of the on- going US-Africa African leader’s summit, according to a `readout’ issued by…
By JOE EFFIONG, Uyo Akwa Ibom State Government and the state police command have dispelled rumours that Boko Haram members were on the verge of wreaking havoc in the state. The police command, through its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Etim Dickson (DSP), told Daily Sun yesterday that the command was aware of the rumours but…
(ABUJA)No fewer than 650,000 persons have been displaced from their homes, in several attacks orchestrated by the outlawed Boko Haram sect, the United Nations humanitarian office said on Tuesday.According to a report by the UN refugee agency, (UNHCR), about 1,000 people trying to escape the fighting had fled to an uninhabited island on Lake Chad,…
by: Mike Odiegwu Members of the Egbebiri communities in Biseni clan, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, have seized the Idu oil field belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC).It was learnt that the field is made up of about five oil wells numbered as 3, 6, 8, 11 and 12.The Egbebiri communities were said to have…
BY CHIDI NKWOPARA, OWERRI. Governor Rochas Okorocha has again come under fire as a fiery Catholic cleric, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has accused him of giving a N50 million dud cheque to the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Dr. Anthony J.V. Obinna. Mbaka told the congregation that Okorocha allegedly gave the…