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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says the worsening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reached 1,274 confirmed cases. The agency also said infections among healthcare workers have risen to 96. Wazih Cho, Data Analyst and Epidemic Intelligence Officer at Africa CDC, disclosed this on Monday during a webinar on the Ebola outbreak. “In the past 24 hours, 47 new confirmed Ebola cases and 12 deaths were reported in the DRC, 96 per cent of which originated in Équateur Province,” he said. “Cumulative figures now stand at 1,274 confirmed cases with…

The Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has listed some of the proposed changes to the law and operations of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. PREMIUM TIMES reported that the proposed changes were approved at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Monday. While some of these changes require amendment to the NYSC Act, others are simply administrative changes. In a post on his X handle, the minister explained that the reform began last year through “a broad-based, multi-stakeholder review involving the Federal Ministry of Youth Development, the Federal Ministry of Education and the Office of the Special…

Germany lost a World Cup penalty shoot-out for the first time as they crashed out of the last 32 to underdogs Paraguay.Kai Havertz cancelled out Julio Enciso’s first-half opener, but the Arsenal forward, along with Newcastle’s Nick Woltemade, had their spot-kicks saved by Orlando Gill before Bayern Munich defender Jonathan Tah blazed over, allowing Jose Canale to set up a last-16 tie against France or Sweden. Germany have not won a World Cup knockout tie since winning the competition for a fourth time in 2014 and were harshly denied by a controversial VAR decision in the second half of extra-time…

A court has heard that award-winning actor Micheal Ward allegedly raped and sexually assaulted a woman shortly after meeting her in a bar in London in 2023.The 28-year-old actor – known for his starring roles in the film Blue Story and Netflix series Top Boy – is accused of carrying out the alleged attack in a car.In a police interview played to jurors on the first day of his trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday, the woman said she felt “numb” and “scared” during the alleged assaults, adding that she remembered “wanting it all to be over”.He denies two…

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Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Nigerians continued to contend with elevated energy costs in May as the prices of the country’s three major fuels remained substantially higher than they were a year earlier, with diesel recording the sharpest annual increase of 86.4 per cent. In the same vein, petrol rose by 55.31 per cent while household kerosene climbed by 36.62 per cent, the latest Price Watch reports released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)  showed. Although the three fuels exhibited varying monthly movements, the year-on-year figures suggested that households, transport operators, manufacturers and businesses are still paying significantly more for…

Peter Uzoho The federal government has said it is progressing arrangements for a second tranche of about N701 billion to settle part of the power sector’s legacy debt to Generation Companies (Gencos). This is as the Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC), accused the government of excluding them from the design of the bond programme and forcing terms on member firms. The Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET), confirmed the move in concurrence to an earlier disclosure by the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, who had said that the second tranche would commence in July 2026. Acting Chief Financial Officer…

The Taiwan dollar, which is on track for its first quarterly gain in a year, may face renewed pressure as the US currency strengthens and local companies boost dividend payouts to a record.

Shares in chipmakers have surged in the first half of this year as investors piled into companies that make the hardware underpinning the AI boom, according to analysis.Investors have driven up the value of semiconductor and memory chip manufacturers, whose profits have soared during 2026, at the expense of some large software companies, which have fallen out of favour this year.The share price of some chip companies has tripled, or more, since the start of January, driving Asia Pacific stock markets sharply higher.South Korea’s Kospi index is up 123% this year, its strongest first half since at least 1990, Guardian…

***We’re yet to get codes— Parties ***Codes ready, released Friday, upload deadline remains July 11 — INEC By Soni Daniel, Clifford Ndujihe, Henry Umoru, Omeiza Ajay, John Alechenu, Gabriel Ewepu, Luminous Jannamike & Gift ChapiOdekina THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and political parties, yesterday, disagreed over issuance of access codes to parties to upload their candidates’ particulars on the commission’s portal. Going by INEC’s 2027 general elections timeliness, the access codes were to be released to the parties last friday. However, while the parties, with the exception of BOOT party, said they had not received the codes, the electoral umpire…