The Jigawa State Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is set to launch a mass immunisation campaign targeting over 1.9 million children in virus-prone border communities. Shehu Ibrahim, the state’s Programme Manager and Coordinator of the State Emergency Routine Immunisation Coordination Centre (SERICC), announced this during a UNICEF-organised media…
The son of a Leon County Sheriff’s deputy killed two people at Florida State University and wounded six others on Thursday after gaining access to his mother’s handgun and going on a campus rampage, police said. The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, was shot by officers and taken into custody before being transported to…
At least 390 repentant Boko Haram insurgents have graduated from the Federal Government’s De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration programme in Gombe State, after which they will be reintegrated into the society. Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa who presided over the graduation ceremony held at the training center at Malam Sidi in the Kwami…
U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio stated on Thursday, April 17 that if a resolution to the war in Ukraine is no longer feasible, the United States may have to abandon its efforts and shift focus elsewhere.“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Rubio said while…
Photo by Elsa Olofsson The plant Cannabis sativa is an herbaceous flowering annual that was originally native to central and eastern Asia. It has been cultivated throughout recorded history as a source of fiber for fabric and rope, seed oil, animal feed, and medicine. Evidence exists that some ancient cultures recognized the psychoactive properties of the…
