Officials at a Kaduna State hospital have confirmed receiving casualties from the explosion that rocked the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON).  They added that medical personnel were battling to save the lives of those critically injured.  SaharaReporters reported that several people were feared dead in the explosion that rocked the DICON factory in the […]

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive order imposing a $100,000 annual fee on skilled workers visa applicants known as H-1B visa programme, which allows skilled foreign workers to enter the country. The order, which takes effect on Sunday, September 21, cites “abuse” of the programme and makes entry contingent on the payment.  Until

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the alarm of the escalating cases of suicide across the world, saying that suicide has become the third-leading cause of death globally among young people. The Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who made this known on Friday, urged governments across the world to take urgent and

The Chairmen of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change’s (CPC) Forum of State have dissociated themselves from the recent visit of some of its members to the Abuja residence of the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, describing the move as a personal decision that does not reflect the group’s position. In a statement issued on

Nigerian human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, has petitioned the Office of the Attorney General of Florida, James Uthmeier, accusing former Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, of laundering public funds to acquire properties in the United States. Sowore revealed that he had formally contacted the Office of the Attorney General of Florida,

Patients at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, have been thrown at the mercy of death as nurses and midwives at the institution commenced an indefinite strike.  The industrial action is over the non-implementation of the new National Minimum Wage and long-standing welfare demands.  The strike was confirmed in