The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) said firefighters from the Madina Fire Station, supported by personnel from the Headquarters Sub-Station, responded to the incident and battled the blaze. In a separate incident at Lapaz Tabora No. 5, firefighters from the Dansoman Fire Station responded to an electrical fire involving an Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) transformer.
Ebola: 34-year-old pilot, wife identified as suspected cases who tested negative in North-east Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) on Saturday announced that two suspected Ebola cases had been identified in the North-east.
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The home of 85-year-old Uta Frith does not exactly look like the latest front in the culture wars. Back in March, Dame Uta Frith – she was honoured with the title seven years ago – gave an interview to TES magazine (formerly the Times Educational Supplement) scattered with stark pronouncements.
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By Chioma Obinna The Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, has begun mobilising health workers nationwide for possible industrial action over the Federal Government’s failure to implement the adjustment of the Consolidated Health Salary Structure, CONHESS, a demand that has remained unresolved for about 13 years. In a resolution jointly signed by the JOHESU National Chairman, Comrade Kabiru Minjibir, and National Secretary, Comrade Martin Egbanubi, JOHESU said the season for uninterrupted implementation of the CONHESS adjustment was now or never, warning that it would not accept threats from…
From miscarriage to period pain, workers are calling for better support at work.
By Bunmi Sofola BARBARA Taylor Bradford, renowned author of blockbusters like Woman of Substance and its sequel once said she was appalled by couples who row in public. “In contrast, Tony was brought up in one of the down-market areas of Lagos by parents from a remote village in the West.
George Russell second on grid after qualifying Antonelli well placed as he nears title confirmation Even as Formula One’s young gun Kimi Antonelli remains on course to claim his first world championship on Sunday it was the veteran, seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton who gave a salutary reminder that there is very much fight left in the old dog yet as he claimed a spectacular pole position for the Mexico City Grand Prix. Hamilton delivered a superb lap for Ferrari to secure his first pole for the team and just beat Mercedes’ George Russell into second.
…Two suspected cases test negative after two rounds of laboratory tests By Chioma Obinna The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) last night said two suspected Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases in Adamawa State tested negative after two rounds of laboratory tests, assuring Nigerians that the confirmed case in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) remains the only confirmed infection reported in the country. In a press statement yesterday, the Director-General of NCDC, Dr Jide Idris, said the report was received by the Adamawa State Public Health Emergency Operations Centre…
Saudi Arabia suspends travel to Kenya, halts visa issuance. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) announced the measures in a statement published on its official X account on Friday, 30 October, saying they followed epidemiological assessments by the country’s health authorities
“Our expectation is that the government and other policymakers will take renewed action to ensure that these interventions are implemented across the state,” the group's coordinator said.
The two individuals have been isolated while officials carry out contact tracing and laboratory testing.
Howard Steer's paintings of outback Australian life were often described as cheeky, mischievous and sometimes downright rude.
Nigeria trains excellent doctors and exports many of them. What it lacks is the chain that carries a collapsing person to one of them in time… That chain can be built.
From today, hundreds of thousands of three-year-olds across the country will have access to a new Medicare-subsidised screening program.
Through the foundation, whose core programme interests are entrepreneurship, education, health, and rural development, Adenuga creates and supports initiatives that deliver knowledge, skills, resources and infrastructure that will drive enterprise, facilitate commerce, stimulate innovation, and improve living conditions. The foundation also targets vulnerable groups, Internally Displaced Persons, disaster relief, and national health crises.
Kenya threatens to escalate Saudi travel ban to Africa CDC. NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 31 -.Lenya has threatened to escalate its concerns over Saudi Arabia’s suspension of travel from the country to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Health says Kenya has contained the Ebola outbreak, with seven patients still receiving treatment expected to be discharged on November 3.
Chintuang was a Myanmar-based supplier of the 49.1 kg methamphetamine consignment seized in August 2025, while Lalrammuana was the main handler and Jabrul Haque its intended receiver at Damchhera-Kanhmun border; Abu Saleh was allegedly the operator whose account received ₹11.44 crore
Government data shows that more than 10,000 people have contracted the rare virus.
The development comes 11 days after Nigeria confirmed its first case of Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus in the current regional outbreak.
A delegation of the tribal collective, Thampu, meets Health Minister K. Muraleedharan and calls for a new approach that addresses the social, cultural and economic factors behind the deaths, along with enhanced health-care measures