At least, 30 people have been confirmed dead and many others hospitalised from cholera in Zamfara state. Multiple sources at the state Ministry of Health told PREMIUM TIMES that the state and its health agencies have been battling to contain the outbreak. An official of the ministry said those affected have reached 2,600 with Bakura, Bungudu, Tsafe, Gusau, Zurmi, Kaura Namoda and Birnin Magaji local government areas of the state worst hit. A project coordinator assistant for Medicines Sans Fronteres in the state also confirmed the outbreak. “MSF Spain is already on ground. We have opened a CTU at General…

A Nigerian separatist group sued U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over the sale of attack planes that it says will be used to persecute its supporters. Indigenous People of Biafra, or IPOB, submitted a complaint against two of President Joe Biden’s top officials in a federal court in Washington on Saturday. The organization is asking a judge to direct Blinken and Austin to block the transfer of six A-29 Super Tucano aircraft to Nigeria’s air force and to seek the return of six that were recently delivered. Nigeria’s government ordered the attack and reconnaissance…

Canadian Government has described the security situation in Nigeria as unpredictable and fragile, advising its citizens in the country to take their personal security very seriously. In a travel advisory posted on its website, the government urged its countrymen to avoid non-essential travel to Nigeria due to the “unpredictable security situation” throughout the country and the significant risk of terrorism, crime, inter-communal clashes, armed attacks and kidnappings. In Northwestern states of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto and Zamfara and Northeastern states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa and Yobe, the government advisory stressed that there had been rising incidents of terrorism.…

PRESS RELEASE A Diaspora Group, Inspire Nigeria (IN), based in Edinburgh Scotland, UK, met and issued the following Communique: An emergency meeting of Inspire Nigeria was convened against the background of the worsening insecurity in Nigeria among other developments. The following is the communique from the meeting: • IN believes that Nigeria is better together than as splinter independent nations. However, that Nigeria must be one where equity and justice reign and all Nigerians are equal under the law. • IN commends INEC’s creativity in devising new ways of carrying out part of the continuous registration exercise online as a…