August 3, 2021

The Government of Rivers State has ordered resident doctors at the State University Teaching Hospital to call off their ongoing strike within 24 hours from Tuesday, ‘or forfeit their salary and risk been sacked’.

A statement by the Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Dr. Tammy Danagogo, which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York on Tuesday, stated that while the doctors have the right to go on strike, the Rivers State Government expects that such action ‘should be restricted to Resident Doctors that are directly under the payroll of the Federal Government, particularly as the Rivers State Government …

Wildfires in southern Turkey forced more people to flee their homes yesterday even as pressure on the government grew over its response to the deadly forest fires.

Turkey has suffered the worst fires in at least a decade, official data show, with nearly 95,000 hectares (235,000 acres) burned so far this year, compared with an average of 13,516 at this point in the year between 2008 and 2020.

Since the fires broke out last Wednesday, six people have died and more than 330 have received medical treatment.

A neighbourhood in the tourist city of Bodrum was evacuated, CNN Turk broadcaster …

Residents of an east Sudanese town said Monday they had seen bodies washing up the river on the border with Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region in recent days.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the unidentified bodies were floating on the Setit River known in Ethiopia as the Tekeze, which runs through its northern Tigray region — since Saturday, according to residents from Wad al-Hilou in Sudan’s Kassala state.

‘The bodies I saw today were wounded and had their hands tied,’ one witness told reporters

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Tefera Tewodoros, an Ethiopian doctor working at …

Rivers State Executive Council on Monday approved a total shut down of the Oginiba slaughter market located in Trans -Amadi Industrial layout in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area.

The council gave the approval in its weekly meeting which was presided over by Gov. Nyesom Wike at Government House in Port Harcourt.

Dr Fred Kpakol, the State Commissioner for Agriculture, while briefing journalists after the council meeting explained that a new government project has been designated to be sited at the land in Trans-Amadi.

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Kpakol stated that all occupants and …