The camp of the Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has dismissed a viral report and photographs circulating on social media claiming that the former Anambra State governor was hospitalised after breaking his neck in a gym. Obi’s spokesman, Idris Zekeri, described the report as false in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH on
Former Ebonyi State Governor and Minister of Works, David Umahi, has declared that the South-East has no presidential candidate for the 2027 general elections, dismissing the presidential ambition of the Nigeria Democratic Congress candidate, Peter Obi. Umahi described Obi as “nobody”, insisting that the former Anambra State governor was not better than prominent South-East politicians,
Nigeria trains excellent doctors and exports many of them. What it lacks is the chain that carries a collapsing person to one of them in time… That chain can be built.
Details have emerged of how alleged illegal miners held in a cell at the Niger State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) drank urine or sweat because they had no access to drinking water before 33 of them died. Mariam Nelson, an NSCDC medical unit personnel, told the committee that she cautioned the cell guards, Usman Ndamaka and Hassan Mohammed, on the evening of 16 September that the overcrowding could cause suffocation.
By Adegboyega Adeleye The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has warned that the Ebola outbreak spreading across parts of Africa remains uncontrolled, with more than 10,200 confirmed cases and over 5,000 deaths recorded across the continent. The current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus and has affected several African countries, including the DRC, Kenya and Nigeria.
The probe report said 14 of the 33 detainees who died were minors in the custody of the NSCDC in, while some arrested miners had fled communities overrun by bandits.
Leaders of the African Democratic Congress in the South-West have reaffirmed their support for former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, dismissing reports of dissatisfaction among party leaders in the region over the alleged failure to provide transportation allowances to state chairmen and other officials. In a statement issued on Sunday on behalf of what it described as