Cholera has killed eight people in southern Nigeria and
ten others have been hospitalised, health officials said Thursday, in
the latest outbreak to hit the country following a heavy rainy season.
Nigeria suffered cholera epidemics during the rainy seasons of 2010 and 2011, with nearly 2,000 people killed over two years.
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) in Anambra State have pulled out of the All
Progressive Congress (APC) merger ahead of November 16 governorship
election in the state.
President Goodluck Jonathan has assured the Nigerian
community in Kenya that he would end the challenges of intimidation,
harassment, discrimination and extortion of Nigerians by the Kenyan
security operatives.
No fewer than nine persons were buried alive while many
others sustained injuries in a landslide at Edim Otop community in the
Calabar metropolis on Wednesday.