Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda, the founding father of Zambia is dead. The 97-year-old served as Zambian president from 1964 to 1991. Kenneth Kaunda’s death was announced on Thursday, 17 June, 2021. “I learnt of your passing this afternoon with great sadness.” Zambian President Edgar Lungu wrote as he confirmed Kaunda’s death. The Zambian elder statesman was admitted to a hospital in Lusaka earlier this week. Kaunda suffered from pneumonia last Tuesday when he was admitted…
Reports from Kebbi State in northwest Nigeria say another mass kidnapping attack has happened at Federal Government College Yauri. It is not yet clear how many students were kidnapped but one school staff that managed to escape estimate the number to be about ’30 students’. Abubakar Suru told the BBC that he together with some students layed low inside a classroom.”the gunshot we heard, I’ve never heard anything like it before. They entered the school…
Danish footballer Christian Eriksen will get an implant of heart-starting device after he collapsed on the pitch during Euro 2020. The 29-year-old Denmark midfielder suffered a cardiac arrest during their match against Finland in Copenhagen on Saturday. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator – ICD is “necessary due to rhythm disturbances”, Danish team doctor Morten Boesen said. Eriksen is still in the hospital but says he is “fine under the circumstances”. Heart starting device meaning The British Heart Foundation…
Nigeria Gospel artiste, Adeyinka Alaseyori has spoken out for the first time on the controversy with her colleague, Tope Alabi. In a video, where she appears to be ministering, Alaseyori said “Let Jesus take the wheel, mummy Tope Alabi is our mother. She is a mother to me and many others and by virtue we are blessed by her ministry.” Tope Alabi had earlier criticised her song, Oniduro Mi, in a video which has since…
Nine shrines were among the polling places cancelled by Independent National Electoral Commission. Other odd locations where the Nigerian election body removed polling units include mosques and churches across the country. INEC says it removed the polling units due to “distance, difficult terrain, congestion, communal conflict, new settlements and general insecurity.” Inec is introducing reforms into the commission ahead of the 2023 general election and future elections – creation of new polling units is one…