A massive strike in Nigeria led to the temporary suspension of airline services and a blackout on Monday as unionists stormed the electricity supply corporation in Nigeria and cut off the lights, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said. Currently, tens of millions are left without electricity, and flights have experienced disruptions due to the prolonged strike by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC). It added that operators from TCN were beaten and injured, and that the invasion saw the forceful eviction of the operators from control rooms. Photos, including those shared on social media…
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Heavy rains in Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern Cape, have affected over 1,000 residents across seven wards. Seven human lives were lost in the floods that occurred over the weekend. Many of them have resorted to living in community halls within the city following their displacement. Expressing this view, a Metro spokesperson, Mr. Sithembiso Soyaya said that disaster management teams have not been discharged from duty yet. “The SANDF has deployed a helicopter to help assess and access inaccessible areas. Gift of the Givers and Rescue South Africa have also come on board to support search and rescue operations. The Kariega…
Hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were operating at reduced capacity as nurses and other healthcare workers participated in the nationwide strike. Only medical doctors were seen performing their duties as they bore no affiliations with the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). After the strike commenced, the hospital, which is known to be buzzing with activities, was unusually empty with only a few staff and patients found around the hospital wards, as well as the emergency ward. Regardless, Dr Tayo Haastrup, the hospital’s spokesperson, claimed the hospital was still rendering services, emergency patients in particular. He highlighted that different unions…
In a reparations summit held in 2023 in Ghana, delegates decided to create a Global Reparations Fund to demand compensation for millions of Africans who were enslaved centuries ago during the transatlantic slave trade. The Accra conference on reparations contributed to increasing calls for reparations following an estimated 12 million Africans transported from West Africa to Europe between the 16th and 19th century, put into slavery to serve on plantations. This made possible an aspect of wealth creation, while leaving the Africans impoverished. Even half a millennium after the slave trade, people of African origin suffer from racism throughout the…
Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis/Leprosy and Malaria (BACATMA) has urged parents and guardians to bring their children for this year’s Tuberculosis test. The first phase is targeted at children within the age bracket of 0–5 years with the Executive Chairman of BACATMA, Dr Sani Dambam calling for support in the implementation of the programme during the flag off of the 2024 National Childhood Tuberculosis Testing Week at Kafin Madaki Primary Healthcare Centre. Mainly administered by USAID, KNCV, Breakthrough Action, and the Institution of Human Virology in Nigeria, the tuberculosis test was developed to combat childhood Tuberculosis…
A software solution company, Gention Global Resources has offered out health care solution tools called DocRoa Healthcare Kits to the Olu of Warri palace. Introducing the modern artificial intelligence in health care delivery system to Olori Atuwatse III, the Queen consort of Warri kingdom, the CEO, Gention Global Resources, Ebozoje Segun said it was his passion to ensure that health care delivery became accessible to everyone, including the rural dwellers all over the world. He said the modern health care kits that are worth millions of naira are to be distributed to the rural kingdoms. This is so that every…
The National President, Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN), Dr Casmir Ifeanyi has described quackery in the health institutions as a grave threat to patients and the society at large. Dr Ifeanyi, who made this observation during the 18th annual public lecture of the association in Abakaliki, posited that the only way out of the quackery menace is by enlightening the people, victims and potential victims. “The worry we have about quackery which we are complaining about is not the quackery that is happening in the private, that is easy to curtail. The quackery happening in public health…
Last year, a Chinese national, who forced children in Malawi to chant racist remarks about themselves in Mandarin, a language which the children did not understand and then sold the videos to Chinese social media has been sentenced, and was ordered to leave the country. A court judge in the capital Lilongwe on Thursday handed down a one-year imprisonment to the 27-year-old Lu Ke convicted of recruiting children for racial exploitation. Malawi’s Attorney General, Masauko Chamkakala, noted that although Lu Ke was arrested last year, he had seven days within which he would be deported out of the country having…
Nigerian digital banking startup, Brass has been acquired by a group backed by Nigeria’s fintech giant, Paystack in a bid to address liquidity issues that threaten to shut down the firm. With Brass, Sola Akindolu and Emmanuel Okeke, who founded the company in July 2020, target to provide SMEs with a full-stack, commercial-grade banking service across the different classes of business to help them have more control over their money operations and the ability to scale their businesses. Like any other startup, Brass has not been immune to the economic challenges around the globe under which it operates; liquidity constraints…
iHub, Nairobi-based incubator, has revealed that twelve startups have been accepted into the second cohort of the Kenyan iteration of the first Mastercard Foundation Ed-Tech Fellowship Programme, through which the firms stand to be provided with financial and other types of assistance. It was recalled in February the previous year that Co-creation Hub (CcHUB)– which owns iHub– revealed that it was going to partner with the Mastercard Foundation to establish a $15m ed-tech accelerator programme under the Mastercard Foundation Ed-Tech Fellowship Programme in Kenya and Nigeria. A similar programme is being run by Injini in South Africa. Since its first…