May 15, 2021

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has declared a three-day prayer for the peace and unity of the country in the face of mounting insecurity.

The General Secretary of CAN, Mr Daramola Bade-Joseph, disclosed this in a statement to NAN on Saturday.

Bade-Joseph said that the event which would hold as from May 28, until May 30, had become necessary following the spate of insecurity in many parts of the country.

He said that the prevailing circumstance had made it imperative to seek God’s intervention to restore peace and …

The WHO yesterday stated that the Covid-19 pandemic’s second year was on track to be its deadliest.

The world health body also appealed to rich countries to donate vaccines rather than jab children.

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‘We’re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first,’ the World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference on Friday.

Speaking further he said; ‘I understand why some countries want to vaccinate their children and adolescents, but right now I urge them to …

The Ethiopian authorities have revoked the accreditation of a foreign correspondent working for The New York Times, the newspaper authorities confirmed yesterday.

The US-based newspaper said Simon Marks, an Irish journalist living in Ethiopia, had his media accreditation cancelled last week, ‘days after he interviewed victims of sexual assault and terrified residents in the conflict-torn Tigray region’.

It said Marks — who has filed a series of hard-hitting reports on the war in the northern Tigray region — was accused of ‘unbalanced’ reporting and ‘fake news’.

Ethiopia’s government has sought to control the narrative of the conflict since …