By Femi Bolaji No fewer than 20 persons including women and children, are feared killed or trapped after an illegal mining pit collapsed on Thursday afternoon at Mayo-Kam community in Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State. The disaster occurred while artisanal miners were carrying out excavation activities at the site, triggering widespread panic and…
By Nehru Odeh Professor Doyin Aguoru is a scholar and writer whose works break barriers, collapse borders and extend the frontiers of imagination. She belongs to that rare company of scholars whose influence cannot be measured merely by the books they have written, the lectures they have delivered, or the academic titles they bear but…
(Woman Collapsed. Photo by The Mirror) A woman reportedly collapsed and had to be carried away after she and her partner were each publicly flogged 100 times in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, as punishment for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship outside of marriage under the province’s strict Sharia law. The caning was carried out…
Misplaced priorities are unfolding in Akwa Ibom State as it celebrates 38 years, with the N41 billion Ibom Specialist Hospital remaining non-functional for nearly a decade. At the same time, Governor Pastor Umo Eno’s administration spends lavishly on luxury perks for the political class. Amid a worsening healthcare crisis marked by broken equipment and stagnant…
The Nigerian national grid had suffered a collapse again on Wednesday, leading to a blackout in most parts of the country. The incident occurred at 11:23 a.m., according to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), disrupting supply across multiple franchise areas. By 12:25 p.m., system data showed that only 50 megawatts were available nationwide, distributed…
1 Nigeria’s national electricity grid experienced another collapse today, Wednesday, September 10, 2025. The collapse, according to report, happened around 11:23 a.m., causing a significant drop in power generation from 2,917.83 megawatts to just 1.5 megawatts. This widespread blackout has affected several states, including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, leaving millions without power Details of…
Power supply was disrupted across the country on Wednesday following the collapse of the national grid. The disruption happened around 11am and 12pm, with the megawatts generated dropping significantly. Some distribution companies announced the disruption of power in their areas. The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) and the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC)…
The Nigerian Institute of Builders, NIOB, has raised the alarm that the jobs of qualified builders in Abia State are being taken over by quacks, alleging that charlatans now handle about 90 out of 100 housing projects in the state. The alarm was raised in Umuahia on Monday by the leadership and members of the…
Seven people sustained varying degrees of injuries when a three-storey building under construction collapsed around Olokoro Road, Federal Low-Cost Housing Estate, Umuahia, Abia State. The incident, which occurred around 3 a.m. on Saturday, also destroyed a nearby bungalow occupied by a family of seven. Sources told Vanguard that no life was lost, but several people,…
General Hospital spoilers for April 7-11, 2025 see Diane Miller (Carolyn Hennesy) horrified, Molly Lansing-Davis (Kristen Vaganos) exploding, and Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) collapsing. As we always do on early edition day, we start with what is coming the rest of this week. General Hospital Spoilers: Diane Gives an Interview On Wednesday, April 2nd, we…
