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The Olowu spare parts market has been destroyed by fire. The fire incident happened early on Thursday. News reporters discovered that several of the stores that were destroyed by the fire also sold motorbikes, car components, and air conditioners. Due to the fire breakout, the merchants lost products worth millions of naira. Fire guts spare part market, security guard found dead in Lagos Security personnel and members of the Lagos State Fire Service have started working on the spot to contain the situation. Recall that a similar fire event on Kirikiri Road, Olodi-Apapa in Ajegunle, took place three weeks after…

On March 27, 2023, Vice President Osinbajo delivered a public lecture on the topic “Changing Africa in a Shifting Global Landscape” at King’s College London, after the school’s annual Africa Week 2023 festivities. According to Chronicle NG, the information came from Prof. Osinbajo’s official Twitter account. He believes Africa can fully capitalise on today’s global complexity and flourish in the midst of uncertainty and upheaval. The distinctions between the many mental prisms through which we perceive the world have never been more blurred. Since the 1990s unipolar globe, various centres of political and economic influence have arisen. In addition to…

According to the US military, two US Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed during a training operation over Kentucky on Wednesday night. The condition of the crew members was not immediately known, Army spokeswoman Nondice Thurman said in a statement to reporters early Thursday, without specifying how many people were on board. However, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said on Twitter that deaths were likely and that the Kentucky State Police and the state’s Division of Emergency Management were on the scene. Crew members were flying two Black Hawk helicopters when they crashed in Kentucky’s Trigg County at 10:00 p.m. ET (0200…

Pope Francis has a respiratory illness and will need to be hospitalised for “a few days,” the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday, prompting worries for the 86-year-old’s health. According to the statement, the 86-year-old pope was transferred to Rome’s Gemelli hospital after complaining of respiratory issues for many days. According to the report, tests revealed that he had the illness but lacked COVID-19. The Vatican added, “Pope Francis is touched by the many messages received and expresses his gratitude for the closeness and prayer.” Francis, who celebrated his tenth year as Pope this month, is sometimes short of…

A passenger ferry caught fire in the waters off the southern Philippine province of Basilan on Wednesday evening, killing ten people and rescuing 230, according to a coast guard spokesman. Commodore Rejard Marfe, coast guard head in southern Mindanao, told the DZMM radio station that nine persons were hurt in the fire that began in air-conditioned cabins. The boat can transport up to 430 passengers. The Coast Guard tweeted photos of the MV Lady Mary Joy 3 ship being splashed with water while rescued passengers were escorted to land. The Coast Guard said that it would help with an investigation…

Chile has identified the first human case of bird flu, according to the country’s health ministry on Wednesday. According to a ministry statement, the instance was discovered in a 53-year-old male who had severe influenza symptoms, although the patient was in stable condition. The authorities are also looking into the source of the infection as well as anyone who came into touch with the sufferer. Since late last year, Chile has documented occurrences of H5N1 bird flu in wild animals. Recent incidents on industrial farms prompted the authorities to suspend chicken exports. Although industrial instances have been found in Argentina,…

To disperse opposition supporters who sought to congregate in the capital Dakar for the first of three scheduled opposition rallies against the libel trial of one of its leaders, Senegal’s security forces used tear gas and stun grenades. As the West African country prepared for more demonstrations over a court decision that has stoked tension and bloodshed before of presidential elections next year, stores and banks shuttered early on Wednesday. On Thursday, opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is scheduled to appear in court for a hearing over a libel suit filed by the tourism minister, who claimed that Sonko had falsely…

Peruvian prosecutors are looking into President Dina Boluarte and former President Pedro Castillo for allegedly laundering money as part of a criminal organization, according to a tweet from the attorney general’s office on Tuesday. The inquiry into the alleged offences committed by Boluarte and Castillo is part of a larger investigation into potential campaign funding violations perpetrated during Peru’s presidential election in 2021. The disclosure comes after a former Castillo advisor informed local media that he funded a portion of Castillo’s presidential campaign in 2021, as well as vacations for Boluarte when she ran for Castillo’s vice president. “The alleged…

Obesity-fighting drugs may be put for the first time on the World Health Organization’s “essential medicines list,” which is used to guide government buying choices in low- and middle-income nations, according to the U.N. Journalist was informed by the agency. A team of WHO advisors will assess fresh medication requests for inclusion next month, with an updated essential medicine list coming in September. Three doctors and a researcher in the United States requested that obesity drugs be considered. It applies to the active component liraglutide in Novo Nordisk’s (NOVOb.CO) obesity medicine Saxenda, which is about to go off patent, enabling…

The Nigerian Air Force has rejected an online notice of admission into the National Diploma or Higher National Diploma (ND or HND) Nursing Programmes at the Air force School of Medical Sciences and Aviation Medicine (NAFSMSAM), Kaduna, for the 2023-2024 Academic Session. The Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ayodele Famuyiwa, condemned the online admittance notice as “spurious and fraudulent” in a statement on Tuesday. Famuyiwa said that the advertisement, signed by an ‘impostor, Air Commodore Anike Obinna,’ urging unwary members of the public to pay a non-refundable sum of N15,000.00 for the purchase of an admission form,…