Tag: Red Cross
Red Cross advocates first aid training for employers
The Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS), has advised employers to provide adequate first aid training to employees on handling small…
NHRC, BBOG to establish databank of missing persons in Nigeria
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is collaborating with the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group to establish a databank…
Explosions kill seven in Maiduguri – Red Cross
Reuters – Blasts detonated by three suicide bombers in the northeastern Nigeria city of Maiduguri killed at least seven people…
Red Cross tasks FG on proliferation of small arms, dangerous chemicals
The Nigeria Red Cross Society has urged the Federal Government to check the proliferation of small arms, which have heightened…
Red Cross nurse dies from Ebola in Sierra Leone
A nurse working for the Red Cross in Sierra Leone has died of Ebola in the eastern district of Kenema,…
At least four months needed to contain Ebola, says Red Cross boss
The Ebola epidemic will take at least four months to contain even if all necessary steps are taken, the global…
At least 18 killed in new attacks in Kenya
At least 18 people have been killed in new attacks in Kenya’s Lamu coastal region, the same area where some…
Bauchi attack: police arrest one suspect
The Bauchi State Police Commissioner, Malam Lawal Shehu said on Saturday that one suspect had been arrested in connection with…
31 children burn to death in bus accident
Thirty-one children were burned to death when their bus caught fire and exploded in northern Colombia on Sunday, the Red…
Muslim militants kidnap Red Cross officials
The five missing Red Cross officials in Northern Mali were kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, an official the group…
127 killed in Central Africa’s fresh sectarian violence
At least 127 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in the Central African Republic over the past…
Boko Haram: 2,400 Flee War Zone
The Red Cross has said at least 2,400 people have fled violence in northern Nigeria just as the country said…
Ombatse: The Lethal Cult
How a previously little known group, which calls itself a spiritual organisation, rose to prominence through astounding brutality Until 7…
Nigerian soldiers restrict access to genocide town of Baga
Rescue workers on Tuesday struggled to reach a remote Nigerian town where the military was restricting access after fierce clashes…
Scores of bodies found in CAR capital
The French news agency, AFP said 78 bodies have been found in the streets of the Central Africa Republic capital…