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Duke and Duchess of Sussex name newborn prince Archie

May 8, 2019 7:09 pm

Britain’s Prince Harry and wife Meghan on Wednesday announced their new “dream” son’s name is Archie, hours after showing him off to the world for the first time.

“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are pleased to announce they have named their first born child: Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor,” the couple announced on their Instagram account, ending months of speculation.

The informal choice defied the bookmakers’ predictions and confirmed the couple’s determination not to be bound by tradition.

Archie’s proud parents emerged in front of the cameras inside Windsor Castle earlier Wednesday to show off their son, ahead of introducing him …

Liverpool fan dies after Barcelona phenomenal defeat

May 8, 2019 10:27 am

Liverpool have lost one of their fans after he collapsed following the team’s 4 nil defeat of Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals second-leg match at Anfield on Tuesday.

Hebert Danso Atiko, a Ghanaian, was found lying on the floor unconscious following a jubilation session for the fourth goal at a pub in Eastern Ghana.

An eyewitness said Atiko was rushed to the Akwatia St. Dominics Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead after other soccer fans at the pub tried but failed to revive him.

Hebert was a final year Engineering student at Akwatia Technical School and was writing …

China builds 158 Internet hospitals to control congestion

May 8, 2019 8:51 am

China’s medical authority said on Wednesday that 158 Internet hospitals had been built, to address congestion in large urban hospitals amid digital tide.

Mao Qun’an, a director of the National Health Commission, said at the second Digital China Summit that 19 provinces, or over half of China’s provincial-level regions, had established provincial tele-medicine platforms.

The central government has also earmarked 99 million U.S. dollars in special funds to add tele-medical and other equipment in primary-level health institutions in impoverished counties.

The commission is now working to realise online services in second and tertiary hospitals, he said.

China’s has a three-tier …

Royal Baby: Harry, Meghan reveal their baby to the world

May 8, 2019 8:30 am

Britain’s Prince Harry and wife Meghan gave the world the first glimpse of their “dream” newborn boy on Wednesday — but kept people guessing on what his name will be.

Harry, 34, and 37-year-old Meghan emerged in front of the cameras inside Windsor Castle to show off their son born on Monday, ahead of introducing him to great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.

“He’s just been a dream,” said a smiling Meghan, in her first public comments since giving birth to the seven-pound, three-ounce (3.26-kilogram) baby, who stayed firmly asleep during his public unveiling.

Baby Harry Jnr

“He has the sweetest temperament. …

Akwa Ibom: Cameroonian Gendarmes kill scores of Nigerians

May 7, 2019 11:56 pm

Scores of Nigerians were feared killed and others missing following an alleged attacks by Cameroonian gendarmes on Abana, a fishing community on the fringes the Bakassi Peninsula.

The Village Head of Ifa Ikot Akpan in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Etteidung Edem Ebong, who confirmed the incident to journalists in Uyo, said the victims were mostly Akwa Ibom indigenes.

The monarch added that several others have been abducted and detained at the detention facility in Cameroon.

One of the fishermen, who escaped the incident and fled into his community in the coastal community of Uruan Local Government …

FG needs $45bn to build transportation system – Amaechi

May 7, 2019 11:44 pm

The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has said the federal government requires $45 billion to fix the country’s transportation infrastructure, adding that rail infrastructure is a capital intensive sector.

Explaining the amount spent so far on rail infrastructure in the country during an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily yesterday, the minister revealed that this figure would be needed to solve the country’s “problem of transportation to a great extent.”

He said the sector is capital-intensive, adding that huge funds would be needed to construct more railroads and acquire coaches.

He said: “It is capital intensive. N1trillion …

US to send hospital ship to Venezuela to help refugees

May 7, 2019 11:18 pm

A U.S. Navy hospital ship will embark on another humanitarian mission to help countries cope with an influx of Venezuelans fleeing a deep economic and political crisis, the Trump administration announced Tuesday.

The USNS Comfort will leave in June on a 5-month mission to South America, Central America and the Caribbean to help countries “overwhelmed” by the more than 3 million Venezuelan refugees who have fled in recent years, Vice President Mike Pence said.

“The rising desperation in Venezuela has fueled a mass exodus, the likes of which we have never seen in the Western Hemisphere,” Pence said in a …

NDLEA nabs 9,824 drug suspects

May 7, 2019 7:08 am

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it arrested 9,824 suspected drug offenders and recovered 316,365.47 kilogrammes of illicit drugs in 2018.

Head of Public Affairs of the agency, Mr Jonah Achema, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja.

Achema said that 9,122 of the nabbed suspects were males while 702 were females, adding that the agency prosecuted 1, 245 offenders during the period.

He said that the agency secured 1, 236 convictions, while seven cases were acquitted and two struck out.

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Qatar donates $480m in aid to Palestinians

May 7, 2019 6:54 am

Qatar has allocated 480 million dollars in aid to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

It said 180 million dollars of the amount will go to humanitarian relief, provide support for United Nations programmes and support electricity services.

The other 300 million dollars in grants and loans will support the health and education budget of the Palestinian Authority.

Qatar, which has close ties with Hamas, has also recently pledged 150 million dollars for improving the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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Jet crash between Las Vegas, Monterrey in Mexico kill 14

May 7, 2019 6:18 am

Mexican authorities have found the remains of a plane that disappeared after leaving from Las Vegas, amid reports all 14 people on board were killed.

The wreckage of the plane, a Bombardier Challenger 601, crashed in the mountainous region of Monclova, while on route to the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.

The remains were found about 130 miles northwest of the town of Monclova.

Reports said the passengers were returning after watching Mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez, who defeated Daniel Jacobs at the T Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

Air traffic controllers reportedly lost contact with the small …

Trump honours Woods with USA’s greatest honour

May 7, 2019 5:36 am

Tiger Woods was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday for his relentless will to win, win, win.

The honour came weeks after the legendary golfer staged an epic comeback victory in the Masters.

Presenting the golfing great with the nation’s highest honour, Trump praised Woods winning mentality.

“These qualities embody the American spirit of pushing boundaries, defying limits and always striving for greatness,” the president said.

Trump congratulated Woods on “your amazing comeback and your amazing life and for giving sports fans a lifetime of memories.

“We can’t wait to …

200 million West Africans live below poverty line

May 6, 2019 11:14 pm

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Office for West Africa has raised the alarm that 200 million or 53.5 per cent of West Africans live below poverty line.

It said that West Africa had a population of about 377 million in 2018.

The of Director UNECA, Bakary Dosso, said at the Expert Group Meeting
Draft Agenda in Liberia that the situation demonstrated the magnitude of the challenges the sub-region was facing.

The countries in the sub-region needed to institute major reforms to their macro-economic and financial frameworks, invest in human capital, tackle infrastructure deficits.

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