Tag: People
I am elected to upgrade living standard of my people – Rep member-elect
Alhaji Abubakar Umar, the newly elected member of Federal House of Representative has described his election as a call to…
50 people missing after pipeline explodes in Nigeria
More than 50 people are missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria, a…
Tragedy: 66 people massacred in Kaduna on election eve
Sixty-six people have been massacred at Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State by unknown gunmen on the eve of…
11 people die after eating rice in Indian Temple
Eleven people have died and dozens more have fallen ill after eating rice at a temple in India, police say.
186 people murdered in Lagos in 11 months – Police
No fewer than 186 people have been murdered on the streets of Lagos in eleven months, State Commissioner of police,…
Malaria affects 219 million people in 2017, kills 274,000 in 11 countries
Reductions in malaria cases have stalled after several years of decline globally, according to the new World malaria report 2018.
Flood: God is still kind to Bayelsa people – Dickson
Gov. Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has said that despite the current flood disaster experienced across the state, God is…
11 people killed in gun attack on Synagogue
Eleven people have been killed, officials say, in a gun attack on a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh,…
50 people killed, 200 injured as train runs into crowd in India
More than 50 people have been killed and 200 hurt after a train ran into a crowd near Amritsar in…
Many injured while scooping fuel from broken pipeline in Niger
Many people have been injured while attempting to scoop fuel from a broken pipeline at Dagbo-Pogo community in Niger State,…
Lagos loses 84 people, N12.8bn properties to fire
The Lagos State Government on Monday disclosed that the state lost 84 people and N12.8 billion worth of properties to…
Update: 14 rescued in Lagos 4-storey collapsed building, people still trapped
At least, 14 people have been rescued in the four-storey building which collapsed on Lagos Island area of Lagos, Southwest…
Tobacco kills 7m people, gulps $1.4trn annually – WHO
Tobacco use kills more than seven million people annually and costs over 1.4 trillion dollars in healthcare expenditure and lost…
Access Bank’s CSR drive and why people come first
Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe the current CEO and Group managing director of Access Bank, one of Nigeria’s top five banking institutions,…
World’s major problem: Too many young people
New York Times: At no point in recorded history has our world been so demographically lopsided, with old people concentrated…