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Thirty-three people were also wounded as gunmen raided village and seasonal cattle camp in northwest of the country.Published On 28 Aug 202628 Aug 2026An armed raid on a seasonal cattle camp and village in the northwest of South Sudan has killed least 49 people, according to local officials.The raid, which also wounded 33 people, took place early on Thursday, as gunmen attacked the Machar-Pakuek cattle camp and Mading Juer Boma in Majak Payam, Tonj North County, Warrap State, according to an official statement.The young African nation is plagued by violent cattle raids, with herders competing for scarce grazing lands and water…

The federal government has launched a five-year national alcohol policy aimed at reducing alcohol related harm while promoting responsible industry practices and protecting government revenue. The Nigeria Alcohol Policy and its Multisectoral Implementation Plan, covering 2026 to 2030, was launched on Thursday in Abuja by the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, said the policy was designed to address alcohol as both a public health and national development issue. Mr Pate, who was represented at the launch by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Daju Kachollom, said alcohol contributes to manufacturing,…

An ongoing public health crisis is unfolding in El Obeid, the capital of Sudan’s North Kordofan, where a protracted proxy war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has led to civilian casualties, infrastructure collapse, and mass displacement, leading to overcrowding in sites of refuge that increases the risk of infectious disease outbreaks. This health crisis will not follow the path of a traditional disease outbreak because it is complicated by the severe humanitarian and human rights violations unfolding concurrently (1).

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Nigerian singer Augustine Miles Kelechi, popularly known as Tekno, has questioned the widespread attribution of Afrobeats’ origins to the late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Tekno made the remarks during an interview with Hot 97 FM in New York, where he argued that several Nigerian music pioneers, particularly musicians from the eastern part of the country, played significant roles in shaping the sounds that eventually evolved into what is known globally as Afrobeats. While acknowledging Fela’s enormous contribution to African music, Tekno said the legendary musician’s extensive international exposure helped him gain greater recognition for the genre. He specifically mentioned late…

By Louis Achi At a period when Nigeria’s political fever is rising ahead of the 2027 elections, former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Yusufu Buratai (rtd.), has introduced a more consequential question into the controversy surrounding a United States legal proceeding over the possible release of documents relating to President Tinubu. His intervention which significantly leans on the diplomatic tradition is not, in essence, a plea for immunity for a president. It is a challenge to Nigerians to distinguish between defending an individual office-holder and defending the dignity, sovereignty and institutional standing of the Nigerian state. Only few will…

An observation shared on social media on application data for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has intensified concerns about the state of education in Nigeria’s North-west. The development followed a post on X by Aminu Nass, a professor of mathematics at the Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil, in which he shared a comment by one Dr Bashir Jelani. “This is not about Arewa’s poor JAMB results. The number of registered candidates should worry us more,” Mr Jelani wrote. “Kano (17.5 million) is about three times as populous as Benue (6 million). Yet, the number…

Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti  Ahead of the 2027 general election, stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in Ekiti State have begun grassroots mobilisation in support of the presidential aspiration of Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde. The stakeholders, drawn from the 16 local government areas of the state, converged on Ekiti for an advocacy and campaign awareness programme convened by a PDP chieftain, Mrs Lanre Fajuyi, with a call for opposition forces to unite and provide Nigerians with a credible alternative in the 2027 elections. The programme, tagged ‘APM Awareness Campaign,’ focused on…

…and seek legal redress The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has deployed a digital mobile application to enable workers nationwide to report workplace abuses and secure legal redress. The new initiative was done in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the International Trade Union Confederation to establish the app aimed at identifying, documenting, and reporting trade union rights violations across Nigerian workplaces. The move was driven by Nigeria’s inclusion among the ten worst countries globally for workers’ rights in the 2025 ITUC Global Rights Index. Read also:NLC declares N70,000 as poverty wage, prepares for major confrontation Opening the two-day capacity-building workshop in…

Conspiracy theories surrounding singer and philanthropist Dolly Parton’s recent death have flooded the internet, referencing everything from satanic rituals to cloning. But one conspiracy theory has dominated all the others: the claim that Parton’s death was caused by “turbo cancer” brought on by the Covid vaccine.There is no evidence to support the claim that Parton’s death had anything to do with the vaccine. Parton, 80, died after “a short battle with cancer,” her family said in a statement. In May, Parton shared that she was responding well to treatment related to her immune system and digestive system.In 2020, the singer…