Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Diplomats pressing Burkina Faso's military ruler to return the country to civilian rule said on Wednesday they are seeking names of people who could serve as interim head of state until elections
Abuja, Nigeria: FIFA says Nigeria won't be banned from international football after a court order nullifying federation elections was withdrawn.FIFA says Nigeria met a deadline to show that elected football officials are able to work
New Delhi: A surveillance and tracking system similar to that in Nigeria, which was declared Ebola-free by WHO, has been put in place in India, health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Tuesday.Amid concerns in some
New Delhi: With no new cases being conformed in last six weeks, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday officially declared Nigeria Ebola-free nation.WHO country representative Rui Gama Vaz said in Abuja that outbreak in
Abuja:Nigeria today claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants on a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls but doubts immediately surrounded the purported breakthrough.Chief of Defence Staff Air
Lagos: A new Boko Haram video shows the beheading of a man identified as the pilot of a missing Nigerian Air Force jet and burnt out parts of a plane the first indication that Nigeria's
New Delhi: Police is yet to make any arrests in connection with the incident in which three students of African origin were allegedly beaten up by a mob at Rajiv Chowk Metro Station on Sunday.The
Sydney: A 25-year-old man was rushed to an Australian hospital on Thursday after showing symptoms of the Ebola virus disease, health officials said.The man, who fell seriously ill after returning from the Democratic Republic of
Lagos: Nigerian troops on Saturday stormed a suspected hideout of Islamic militants in the northeastern Borno state, killing over 50 members, the military said in a statement.The army launched the raid following a tip off
Abuja: An Ebola infected patient died in Nigeria on Wednesday, bringing the toll from the disease to seven in the West African country, an official said.Nigeria's Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told reporters that the number
Abuja: Nigeria will soon get a Japanese drug to treat Ebola, the country's Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said on Monday.The drug named Favipiravir and developed by a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings in Japan, could be
Abuja: Nigerian troops will soon launch a massive military offensive to end insurgency in the northeast region of the West African country, Chief of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah has said .Minimah disclosed this in
London: The British Department of Health confirmed on Saturday that a Briton living in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola."We can confirm that a British national residing in Sierra Leone has tested positive for
Yaounde (Cameroon): The Cameroonian government has decided to close its border with Nigeria to prevent the spread of Ebola virus from the neighbouring country."We are on the way to close the border with Nigeria because
Geneva: The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa will take at least six months to bring it under control, according to the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).The situation was "deteriorating faster, and moving faster,
New Delhi: All the four Indian doctors in a hospital in Nigerian capital Abuja, who have been forced to stay on in the Ebola-hit country against their wishes, were given back their passports following intervention
New Delhi: Union Health Ministry today announced that there was no suspected case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country even as the Cabinet Secretary took stock of the situation and reviewed the preparedness
Lagos: The Nigerian government has declared the Ebola outbreak in the country a national emergency.Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said this at an emergency meeting on Wednesday convened by the House of Representatives Committee on Health
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone : Sierra Leone canceled all football matches indefinitely on Tuesday because of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa. The national football association said it will seek permission to
United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon on Wednesday voiced his full support for the worldwide vigils to mark 100 days since the abduction of schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram terrorists, noting the
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