Flight operations resume in Osubi Airstrip after 17 months

   

   Flight operations resumed Friday morning at the Osubi Airstrip located in Okpe council area of Delta State, seventeen months after it was shutdown.

Worst Of COVID-19 Is Yet To Come For Africa: WHO

   

Africa has just lived through its most devastating week of the pandemic, but the worst is yet to come as the third wave gathers pace on the continent, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

“Africa has just marked the continent’s most dire pandemic week ever. But the worst is yet to come as the fast-moving third wave continues to gain speed and new ground,” said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO’s  regional director for Africa. Cases are doubling every 18 days, compared with every 21 days only a week ago, she said during a virtual press conference, adding that “the end to this precipitous rise is still weeks away.”

Coronavirus cases have been rising in Africa since the start of the third wave on the continent on May 3. During the week ending July 4, more than 251,000 new Covid-19 cases were recorded on the continent,  a 20% increase over the previous week and a 12% jump from the previous January peak.

U.S. Army Special Forces Train Nigerian Navy On IEDs

   

   Twenty-five officers of the Nigerian Navy Special Boat Service on Thursday completed a five-week Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) alongside a team of U.S. Army Special Forces.

   The exercise is part of a series of U.S. engagements with the Nigerian military that provides opportunities for the Nigerian military and U.S. elite units to work together, learn from each other, and strengthen their relationships, the United States Mission in Nigeria said in a statement.

Petrol tanker crushes pupils of Army day Schools in Effurun to death

 

   At least nine students of Army Children Primary School, Effurun, Uvwie council area of Delta state, have reportedly died after a petrol-laden tanker ran into them on Thursday afternoon.

  Several others were reportedly rushed to the military hospital located inside the General David Ejoor Barracks, Effurun and Central Hospital, Warri. The Nation learnt the incident occurred by a link road opposite the Army Barracks.

It was gathered 12 pupils were rushed to the Central Hospital, Warri from which nine were confirmed dead on arrival. The other three were reportedly referred to the Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara after being stabilised. The students were said to be returning home after school hours, when the unfortunate incident occurred.

Prof. Attahiru Jega, former Chairman of INEC appointed as Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Jos

   

   President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Prof. Attahiru Jega, former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Jos.

   The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who disclosed this while addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday, said Buhari also approved the appointment and reassignment of Chancellors to 42 federal universities.