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World Health Organisation (WHO) said its experts, researchers in South Africa and around the world are conducting studies to better understand Omicron variant.

In a statement released Sunday, the global health agency said it is ‘not clear’ whether Omicron COVID variant is more transmissible or more severe than Delta variant.

On Friday, WHO labelled the COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa, ‘Omicron’, and described it a variant of concern due to its large number of mutations and possible faster rate of infection.

“The number of people testing positive has risen in areas of South Africa affected by this variant, but

No fewer than 22 people were on Sunday murdered in an attack in a camp for displaced people in Ituri province in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the armed group Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (Codeco) who are said to have opened fire on the camp have been blamed for the attack.

Twenty people were buried immediately in two common graves, while another two were buried later, the AFP news agency quoted a Red Cross official as saying.

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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has knocked controversial Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi for comparing it to bandits recently pronounced as a terrorist group by a high court in Abuja.

Spokesperson of the group, Emma Powerful in a statement on Sunday described Gumi’s comparison as ‘sacrilegious and insanity taken too far’.

While pointing out similarities between the two groups, Powerful said ‘In case Gumi has forgotten, Fulani bandits and herdsmen have already designated the fourth deadliest terror organisation in the world. But IPOB as a peaceful Movement maintains its presence in over 100 countries of the world without …

The Department of State Services (DSS) on Sunday issued an alert over planned attacks by insurgents on Ogun border communities and other border communities in Nigeria.

In a leaked letter signed by the State Director of Security, Ogun State Command, M.B. Abdullahi which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York, the DSS warned that it has intelligence that the insurgent is plotting to attack military bases in border towns.

The DSS also advised customs and other security agencies in the country to put counter-measures in place to frustrate the plot by the insurgents.

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The Department of State Services, DSS has issued an alert over planned attacks by insurgents on Ogun border communities and other border communities in Nigeria.

In a letter signed by the State Director of Security, Ogun State Command, M.B. Abdullahi, DSS warned that it has intelligence that the insurgent is plotting to attack military bases in border towns.

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The letter titled, ‘Plans by insurgents to launch attacks on military bases in various border communities’ read, “Available intelligence indicates plans by insurgents and criminal elements to carry out simultaneous

Two people were killed, thousands of homes cut off from power and drivers stuck on freezing roads overnight as a powerful storm hit the northern UK, authorities said Saturday.

One woman tweeted a video of her flight from Paris struggling to land in Manchester, northwest England, in high winds late Friday.

Passengers’ nervous laughter gave way to screams and sobs before the pilot aborted the landing, succeeding on a second attempt.

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The UK’s meteorological service issued a rare “red weather” warning as “Storm Arwen” brought wind gusts of almost …

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Niger State has advised its affiliate unions to prioritize the election of women into leadership positions to guarantee gender equality at workplaces.

This was contained in the communique issued at the end of 2021 NLC State Level School Training organized for affiliate unions and signed by the Niger State NLC Chairman, Comrade Yakubu Garba, urging the unions to ensure that effective grievance handling mechanisms were instituted.

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The Communique enjoined the unions to promote good governance within their various trade unions …

Congratulations are in order as Mrs Betty Akeredolu, the First Lady of Ondo State Ondo State emerged personality of the year courtesy of The Eastern Updates, a media company under the People and Polity group.

The honour was conferred on her in their recently published magazine which was made public on the 27th of November. According to the parameters set by The Eastern Updates, a news company which is known for its solid standing with honesty and unbiased news dispersal, Mrs Betty Akeredolu was chosen for this award because of her wonderful, selfless philantropic works targeted at her constituents and …

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has said there is no basis to beg President Muhammadu Buhari for the release of the Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho.

The group was reacting to calls by some Nigerians, urging the group to emulate Igbo leaders who have approached the president for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Buhari had disclosed that he will consider the release of Kanu after traditional and religious leaders in the south-east asked him to grant Kanu amnesty to deescalate tension in the zone.

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Controversial Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi has claimed that the Federal Government of Nigeria has succumbed to the blackmail against bandits.

The Islamic scholar made this assertion while reacting to the report that a court has now declared the bandits terrosrists.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported how Justice Taiwo Taiwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja proclaimed the activities of bandits as terrorism.

The judge ruled based on an ex parte motion filed by the Federal Government.

Mohammed Abubakar, the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), who filed the motion, had said President Muhammadu Buhari gave …

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that 3,487,298 Nigerians have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 so far.

Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, made this known at the start of mass vaccination in Nasarawa State.

According to Shuaib, as of Friday, November 26, a total of 6,242, 224 eligible persons had received their first doses of the vaccine.

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His words, ‘From the data above, it is clear that Nigeria is still far from reaching its target of vaccinating almost 112 million of its eligible …