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A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ court in Lagos on Tuesday admitted five Dowen College students, charged with the alleged murder of their 12-year-old schoolmate, Sylvester Oromoni, to bail in the sum of ₦1m each.

The police charged the boys, who are minors, with conspiracy and homicide.

The Chief magistrate, Olatunbosun Adeola, after hearing the bail application from the defendants’ counsel, ordered the defendants to produce two sureties each in like sum.

Adeola said one of each of the defendants’ sureties must be their parent and must swear an affidavit of compliance.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday raised the alarm that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading faster than the Delta variant and is causing infections in people already vaccinated or who have recovered from the COVID-19 disease.

WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Monday it would be ‘unwise’ to conclude from early evidence that Omicron is a milder variant than previous ones.

Speaking to some Geneva-based journalists yesterday, Soumya Swaminathan stated that ‘with the numbers going up, all health systems are going to be under strain.’

She warned that South Africa and other places reporting lower …

The education minister in Libya was on Monday arrested as part of an enquiry into a lack of schoolbooks, the prosecution service have disclosed.

In a statement on Monday evening, the prosecution service explained that Moussa al-Megarief ‘was placed in preventative detention pending an investigation into (possible) negligence’.

‘The Public Prosecution has launched an enquiry to determine the circumstances around contractual procedures for the printing of textbooks and the reasons for a shortfall,’ it said.

A number of other officials are wanted for questioning, including the minister for planning, it further added.

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No fewer than 29,000 people were evacuated throughout Malaysia Sunday as the country faces some of its worst flooding in many years.

Africa Daily News, New York understands that the tropical Southeast Asian nation often sees stormy monsoon seasons at the end of the year, with seasonal flooding regularly which always leads to mass evacuations.

Heavy downpours which began on Friday have caused rivers to overflow, submerging many urban areas and cutting off major roads, thereby making thousands of motorists stranded.

At least 29,000 flood victims in eight states and territories were recorded on an official government website, with over …

Hundreds of people braved sub-zero temperatures in Afghanistan’s capital to queue outside the passport office early Sunday, a day after the Taliban government announced it would resume issuing travel documents.

Many began their wait the previous night and most stood patiently in single file — some desperate to leave the country for medical treatment, others to escape the Islamists’ renewed rule.

Tense Taliban personnel periodically charged crowds that formed at the front of the queue and at a nearby roadblock.

“We don’t want any suicide attack or explosion to happen,” said Taliban security operative Ajmal Toofan, 22, expressing concerns about …

An Igbo socio-cultural group, Nzuko Ndigbo, have maintained that Ndigbo are in prison as long as the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, remains in detention.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the IPOB leader is currently being detained in the facility of the Department of State Service (DSS) in Abuja, on the orders of Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako-led federal high court in Abuja, following treasonable felony charges levelled against the Kanu by the Federal Government.

Nzuko Ndigbo, in a statement made through its Publicity Secretary, Edomobi Promise on Sunday, declared that Nnamdi Kanu is …

No fewer than 12 people were killed and many more injured on Saturday when a gas blast hit Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, the police has disclosed.

The explosion went off in a bank building in the Sher Shah area and social media and TV footage showed the two-floor structure’s windows and doors blown out, with documents scattered across a wide area.

Cars and motorcycles parked nearby were also damaged.

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Provincial police told reporters that a bomb disposal squad was investigating, but ‘apparently the leakage of gas was the cause’.…

A rights group in Guinea on Saturday protested a plan by the ruling military junta to rename the country’s airport after authoritarian ex-president Sekou Toure, urging it to cancel the move.

Africa DailyNews, New York recalls that Toure led Guinea to independence from France in 1958 and was initially acclaimed as a progressive leader. But he later ruled the West African country with an iron fist until his death in 1984.

Rights organisations say his regime was responsible for the death or disappearance of some 50,000 people — many at a military base in the capital Conakry called Camp Boiro.…

The Nigerian Army on Saturday debunked the alleged reports of a police officer’s son who was tortured to death by soldiers, describing the claims as false and a calculated attempt to tarnish the image and good works of military personnel.

This was expressed in a statement which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York on Saturday by Onyema Nwachukwu Brigadier General, Director Army Public Relations.

According to him, contrary to the misgivings peddled on social media, it became imperative to put the record straight, just as he sympathized with the family of late Christopher.

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No fewer than 23 people have been killed in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, officials disclosed on Saturday, amidst ‘alarming’ reports of destruction on islands that bore the brunt of the storm.

At least 300,000 people fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Typhoon Rai ravaged the southern and central regions of the archipelago, knocking out communications and electricity in many areas, ripping off roofs and toppling concrete power poles.

Rai was a super typhoon when it smashed into the popular tourist island of Siargao on Thursday, packing maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometres per hour …

The Federal Government has failed to officially designate bandits as terrorists three weeks after a Federal High Court ordered the government to do so.

Africa Daily News, New York learnt that since the judgment was delivered on November 26, 2021, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has yet to gazette the order as ordered by the court, thereby failing to give life to the order.

No fewer than four states in the North-West have been battling banditry. The states are Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto and Kaduna. The bandits have killed hundreds of innocent persons, kidnapped …

The Canadian government has lifted the ban imposed on travel from Nigeria and nine other African countries.

The country’s Health Minister, Jean-Yves Duclos, confirmed this at a media briefing on Friday.

This comes almost three weeks after the Canadian government banned 10 African countries over concerns relating to the Omicron COVID variant.

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Aside from Nigeria, the other countries affected were Botswana, Egypt, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Speaking on the reversal of the ban, Duclos said the new development will take effect from December 18.

‘With the evolving