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Schools in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara State have been ordered closed after scores of students were kidnapped by gunmen on Wednesday. At least 73 students were abducted from a state-run high school in Zamfara’s Maradun district, local police said in a statement, adding that the high school was targeted by “armed bandits.” “The abduction followed the invasion of the school by a large number of armed bandits,” according to Zamfara State Police Command. “A search and rescue team has been deployed to work with the military to locate and rescue the abducted children… Security has also been beefed up at Kaya…

Healthy children under the age of 16 do not need to be vaccinated against Covid, the Government’s vaccine advisory panel ruled today.The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said the virus posed such a low risk to 12 to 15-year-olds that the benefit of vaccination to their health would be marginal.However, it is recommending the jabs for 200,000 more children with chronic heart, kidney, lung and neurological conditions in that age group. A total of 350,000 children aged 12 to 15 are now eligible for the vaccine.The expert panel said that youngsters under 16 with severe conditions have a…

Comedy actor, Ime Bishop, popularly known as Okon Lagos, has warned fans to desist from tagging him to a video of Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye housemate, Tega.   He made this call via his Instagram page on Thursday night, stating that though he and Tega are from similar states, people should not tag him to her videos again.   Tega set tongues wagging with a video that went viral on Tuesday which featured her kissing a fellow housemate, Boma, while in bed.   This caused an uproar because Tega is the only married woman in the house and…

SEPTUAGENARIAN, OTHER ALLEGEDLY RAPE NURSE APPRENTICE IN EKITI HOSPITAL An Ekiti State Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ado Ekiti, on Thursday, ordered that two men – Gesture Omolade, 72, and 42-year-old Ayodeji Adejugbe – be remanded in a custodial centre for the alleged rape of a minor. The defendants were charged with conspiracy and rape. The police prosecutor, Inspector Olubu Apata, said the defendants raped the 17-year-old several times in Ado Ekiti between July and August 2021. He said, “The defendants took her to Room Two in the hospital where she was an apprentice as a nurse, and had sexual intercourse with her…

“Delta is reducing consumer demand and threatening the reopening,” said Glassdoor Senior Economist Daniel Zhao. “Ultimately it’s just a harsh reminder that the pandemic has control of our destiny,” he told CNN Business.In normal times the August report would have been a reason to celebrate, but nowadays it’s a sharp slowdown from the buoyant jobs reports earlier in the summer. Friday’s report fell far short of economists’ already reduced expectations: Predictions for Friday’s jobs report had been revised down to 728,000 from 750,000 earlier after Wednesday’s ADP Employment Report, which count private payrolls, also disappointed.Nearly a year and a half…

The late Supreme Court judge, Justice Samuel Kofi Marful-Sau • Justice Samuel Kofi Marful-Sau who was a Supreme Court judge died on August 10, 2021 • He would be buried on October 8, 2021 in Accra• He was appointed Supreme Court judge in 2018The Supreme Court Judge who died of COVID-19 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 will be buried on October on October 8, 2021.This announcement was made at the one-week celebration of the late Supreme Court judge who died at the Ga East Municipal Hospital, Kwabenya.Justice Samuel Kofi Marful-Sau was an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.Marful-Sau…

– Advertisement – Yesterday, was the birthday of the wife of the founder and leader of Anointed Palace Chapel, Ciara Antwi aka Bofowaa. Bofowaa, earlier in the day brought social media to a standstill as she shared beautiful photos of herself to mark her day appearing more royal. She got all the encomium on the internet following her post. Later in the day, Rev. Nii Gyata Obofour organised a majestic birthday party for Obofowaa, his wife. The star-studded birthday bash saw the likes of Bishop Obinim and his wife, Apostle Owusu Bempah and other popular faces in the media joining…

Sports News of Friday, 3 September 2021 Source: ghanasoccernet.com 2021-09-03 Sumaila Abdallah is celebrating the 20th anniversary of winning the FIFA Fair play award in 2001 Former Ghanaian goalkeeper Sumaila Abdallah is celebrating the 20th anniversary of winning the FIFA Fair play award, becoming only the second African player at that time to win a FIFA accolade.It’s been two decades since his act of braveness saved the life of one of Ghana’s most exciting players in the domestic league.Sumaila Abdallah saved an unconscious Charles Taylor from taking his last breath by giving him a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation during a game between…

The US Supreme Court has refused to block a new law in Texas that bans abortions for most women. The so-called Heartbeat Act bans terminations after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat – a point when many women do not know they are pregnant. The law gives any individual the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. Rights groups had asked the court to block the law. But in a late night vote, the Supreme Court justices ruled 5-4 against granting this. The court’s majority said their decision was not based…

BREAKING NEWS: ‘The Biden plan is working’: Joe insists the economy is ‘durable and strong’ after US added 500,000 fewer jobs than predicted in August and blames the Delta variant for the record number of openingsThe U.S. job market saw hiring slow to 235,000 jobs in August after two strong months with the Delta variant the blame Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for 720,000 new hires President Joe Biden addressed the job numbers in a speech at White House on Friday before he heads to New Orleans to view the damage from Hurricane Ida Delta variant has caused many localities…