The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commended the Kwara state government for spending over N92 million on health within the last six months. Dr Ahmed Tsofo, Health Specialist, UNICEF Kaduna Field Office, gave the commendation on Monday in Ilorin at the 2019 End-Year Review and Planning meeting. Tsofo said the amount spent by the … Read more
………Vows To offer Humanitarian Assistance Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Adnan Bostaji on Sunday received Humanitarian Award for his works in Africa at the Nigeria Festivals of Award, Abuja. In appreciation, he pledged his country will continue to offer humanitarian assistance to Nigeria especially in the health sector. Adnan said that the award was a … Read more
Investigations are currently ongoing for the cause of a fire incident at a factory that killed 40 workers while they slept in the middle of the night. The blaze broke out at the four-storey building in the city’s congested old quarter early on Sunday morning. Read Also: Pupils Under Drug Influence Attack Teacher On His … Read more
Malaysia has reported its first polio case in 27 years, health authorities said Sunday, announcing a three-month-old baby had been diagnosed on Borneo Island. The Malaysian health ministry’s director-general, Noor Hisham Abdullah, said the baby from Tuaran in eastern Sabah state had been admitted into intensive care after experiencing fever and muscle weakness. “The patient … Read more
About 43 people have died in a factory fire in India’s capital New Delhi, with the death toll expected to rise. The inferno started in the early hours in the city’s old quarter, whose narrow and congested lanes are lined with many small manufacturing and storage units. New Delhi’s deputy chief fire officer,Sunil Choudhary said: … Read more
Constantino Chiwenga, Zimbabwe’s Vice President has served his 36 year-old wife, Mary, divorce papers and also asked her to leave their matrimonial home, leaving behind their two children. Local newspaper reports said the retired army general cut ties in July with Mary after a hospital bedside row in Pretoria, South Africa as he battled a … Read more
Eight people have been killed in a bus attack in northeast Kenya, staged by the Somali Islamist Shebaab group. The Presidential Spokesperson made this in statement, saying that Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta had been briefed on the “brutal” murders of eight people, including police, during the jihadist attack in Wajir county. According to a Senior … Read more
The Kenyan authorities has arrested the governor of Nairobi county, Mike Sonko, on suspicion of involvement in a multi-million dollar corruption scandal. Ekohotblog understands that the director of public prosecutions ordered the arrest, saying he had enough evidence to prosecute Mr. Sonko and a number of other county officials for crimes including money laundering and … Read more
Indian Police have shot dead four gang-rape and murder suspects who had been in custody for a week, as they tried to escape during the re-enactment in the southern city of Hyderabad. According to Deputy police commissioner Prakash Reddy: “They were killed in the crossfire. They tried to snatch weapons from the guards but were … Read more
Sudan’s army has said that it had captured six Chadians accused of belonging to Boko Haram jihadist in the country. It said: “Sudanese army intelligence captured six members of the Boko Horam terrorist group inside Sudanese territory,” the army said in a statement. “They are Chadian nationals and since there is a security agreement between … Read more
Pirates have kidnapped 19 sailors after waylaying a Hong Kong flagged supertanker, Nave Constellation, loaded with oil. The ship owned by Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, was attacked during the evening hours of Dec. 3 while the ship was travelling through Nigerian waters. The attack occurred roughly 60-70 nautical miles south (reports vary) of Nigeria’s Bonny … Read more
The Democratic White House aspirant Kamala Harris has withdrawn from the US presidential race. The 55-year-old California senator, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, was once seen as a rising star within the party, but she could not cement her fleeting position in the top tier of candidates alongside Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and … Read more
China has lambasted the U.S. House of Representatives for passing a bill that aims to hold Beijing accountable over alleged violations of human rights against Muslim minorities, including Uighurs. “We urge the U.S. to immediately correct its mistakes, prevent the aforementioned Xinjiang-related bill from becoming law, and stop using the Xinjiang-related issue to interfere in … Read more
Following a statement from one of his coalition partners, Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne has resigned and tendered his resignation at a meeting with President Sauli Niinisto. A source who preferred anonymity quoted one of his coalition partners saying that they had no confidence in him anymore. READ ALSO: https://ekohotblog2.com/2019/12/03/75-year-old-yoweri-says-he-is-not-tired-of-being-the-president-of-uganda/ Centre Party, one of five … Read more
President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni, has stated that he is not tired of holding on to the country’s Presidency after 33 years of being in power. The 75 year old who got into power on January 29, 1986 disclosed in an open letter published on his blogspot that he delibrately lost weight by shedding off … Read more
Two Nigerian mafia clans operating in Italy and abroad to traffic and sell Nigerian women into sex slavery and prostitution have been busted by Italian police. In a massive operation on Tuesday, some 32 people were arrested in Puglia, Sicily, Campania, Calabria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Marche, Emilia Romagna, Veneto and, abroad, in Germany, France, Netherlands and … Read more
The Army has said that two soldiers were killed and seven left injured by a roadside bomb in central Mali on Monday,in the latest deadly incident. The attack follows the deaths of 13 French troops in a mid-air helicopter collision last week as they were chasing jihadists in northern Mali. Despite some 4,500 French troops … Read more
The US President Donald Trump,has said on Tuesday that his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron’s criticism of NATO as “brain dead” was insulting. Trump said at a joint press appearance with alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the allies’ summit that NATO serves a great purpose. He said that it was totally a wrong statement … Read more
The South African Police Constable, Austin Reynold, who robbed and killed a Nigerian, Emeka Okoli, was on Monday sentenced to 32 years in prison by a Durban High Court. Ekohotblog understands that Reynold was sentenced three days after he was found guilty of robbing and killing the late Okoli during an illegal raid in the … Read more
Eleven people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a popular tourist hub, US police said, adding that two of the victims were in a critical condition. The shooting took place at 3:00 am on a crowded commercial street near many hotels in a historic district that attracts visitors from … Read more