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A rapid response team has been sent to Zamfara State by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the African Field Epidemiology Network to combat cholera outbreaks.

The state has recorded more than 11, 000 cases with a fatality rate of 1.6% since the outbreak first started happening on January 15 in a statement released on Friday from the state’s public relations department, Suleiman Isah.

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More than 60% of cases were reported in the Talata Mafara, Gusau, Bungudu, and Zurmi local government areas, according to the statement.

Worsened by insecurity

A major public health issue is raised by the outbreak, which has grown worse as a result of insecurities and humanitarian difficulties.

Seven Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme residents and one graduate were stationed in high-burden areas for 14 days to strengthen the response.

Their responsibilities include coordinating with the State PHEOC and supporting case management and surveillance to prevent the outbreak.

The CDC-AFENET also delivered 29, 500 necessary medical items in addition to the personnel.
40, 000 items, including Ringer’s lactate, dextrose water, and regular saline, were included.

Additionally, the shipment included 1, 000 personal protective equipment items, including IV giving sets, 500 infection prevention and control supplies like hand sanitizer and sodium hypochlorite, and 3, 900 consumables, such as IV cannulas, gloves, and cotton wool.

Nafisa Maradun, the state’s health commissioner, received the supplies from the rapid response team lead, Ahmad Aliyu.

Maradun referred to the support as “massive and one that will go a long way to controlling the outbreak.”

Siminalayi Fubara, the governor of Rhodes State, will speak to residents on Friday during a statewide broadcast.

Fubara made this known to journalists at the state capital’s Port Harcourt, where he addressed them.

At 6 p.m., he promised to speak with Rivers residents.

By 6 p.m., Fubara declared, “We are going to the state.”

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Since Thursday, the governor has expressed his gratitude to the locals and supporters.

What I saw at the airport really humbles me.

I was truly humbled by that reception. The governor remarked, “It showed love and solidarity.”

He claimed that the people’s support was a reflection of the state’s support.

The governor was accompanied by his wife, key players, and security officials to the Government House in Port Harcourt.

Edison Ehie, his chief of staff, was one of the attendees.

The governor first inspected his official residence before moving to his office at the Government House.

Emergency Regulation

On Friday, more than 24 hours after President Bola Tinubu ended the state’s six-month emergency rule, the governor arrived at the Port Harcourt International Airport at about 12:19 p.m.

A crowd of supporters gathered at the Port Harcourt International Airport’s VIP wing to welcome him and await his arrival.

Despite the hundreds of supporters who had gathered to welcome him, Fubara did not appear at the Government House while the House of Assembly was resuming its session on Thursday.

However, Nyesom Wike, his predecessor and current minister of the Federal Capital Territory, claimed in an exclusive interview with Channels Television that Fubara was not required to resume on Thursday.

After President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers on March 18 citing a political crisis, Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Odu, had been stepping down from the state’s governance for six months.

Tinubu also wore the role of administrator over Ibok-Ete Ibas, a former admiral.

At the conclusion of the emergency rule on Wednesday night, Ibas took over control of the government.

Wike-Fubara Rift

In a common occurrence between incumbent governors and former governors in Nigeria, Fubara and his predecessor, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, broke out in May of the same year.

The lawmakers were divided when the political conflict also divided the House of Assembly.

Femi Aborisade, the party’s founding national secretary, claims that the government hasn’t lived up to the expectations of the people.

In my humble opinion, I believe that political figures have let the country down; On Friday, Aborisade said on Channels Television’s Inside Sources that they had not lived up to the expectations of the public.

According to him, the constitution primarily focuses on the welfare and security of the people.

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According to the constitution, the people’s welfare and security are the foundation of governance. We neither have security nor care for the welfare of the people we serve.

Instead of the rulers swimming in opulence and the masses suffocating in abject poverty, he said, “we are confronted with unprecedented poverty, pervasive poverty, agony, pains, and pangs.”

Nigerians aren’t using Nigerian resources.

Aborisade added that the people in charge should be the ones who make decisions, not the masses.

The country is acting only in the interests of the rulers when it says, “Things are not working, the country is not acting in the interests of the masses.”

For instance, they have discontinued the fuel subsidy because only the wealthy governors are eligible. They have given to the wealthy and taken from the general public. It seems as though everything is going wrong.

He claimed that Nigeria is now made for the rulers rather than the general public.

Aborisade, who spoke about the nation’s lawmaking, said, “Our legislatures are among the highest income earners in the entire world, yet they are proud to have passed a law that legalizes the minimum wage of $70,000 per month, yet not less than 11 states are not making the minimum wage.”

Six school principals have been suspended by the Sokoto State Government as a result of allegations of insubordination and unauthorised collection of fees in relation to the results of the Junior Secondary School (JSS) examination.

Ahmad Ala, the ministry’s director of public relations, Ibrahim Iya, made the announcement in a statement.

No principal or school administrator is prohibited from tamper with law or abuse students or parents, Ala declared.

The professor continued, “Our schools must be run according to accountability rather than personal interests.”

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The commissioner added that any official found to be incompetent would be immediately sanctioned by the government.

Nana Girls Secondary School, Government Day Secondary School (GDSS), Gagi, GDSS, Mana, Giginya Memorial College, Mana Basic Secondary School, and GDSS, Silame are the affected principals.

Silame, the GDSS principal, was specifically punished for insubordination, the statement claimed.

The commissioner established a five-member investigative committee led by a professor, Mustapha Tukur, to address the allegations.

The Directors of Planning at the Teachers Service Board, the Director of Quality Assurance at AIEB, and the Executive Secretary of the Committee will also be there.

With immediate effect, the suspended principals have received instructions to assign all administrative responsibilities to their respective vice principals in charge of administration.

No initial reports of casualties were reported after a 6. 1 magnitude earthquake of magnitude 64.1 hit Indonesia’s Central Papua province on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

The epicentre of the earthquake was 28 kilometers (17 miles) south of Nabire, in the Central Papua province, which is located on the Indonesian-half of the large Pacific island that is part of Papua New Guinea, according to the USGS.

No casualties have been reported from the earthquake, according to Abdul Muhari, a spokesman for the national disaster mitigation agency.

According to a statement from Abdul, “Initial monitoring also discovered broken glass in an airport, collapsed ceilings in a governor’s office, a damaged bridge, and power and telecommunication networks shut down.”

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Local residents who rushed outside immediately were woken by the eerie rumble.

“The earthquake struck on Thursday at 3 o’clock (GMT)].” I ran outside with other family members while I was sound asleep, according to Cicilia Mamman, 37, who was also an AFP reporter.

The earthquake was described as 6. 1 magnitude and 10 kilometers in length, but Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency upgraded to a 6. 6 magnitude magnitude after a previous 6. 6 kilometer reading.

As of 7:30 am Jakarta time, Daryono, the agency’s head of earthquake and tsunami mitigation, disclosed on X that 50 aftershocks had been recorded, with the largest of which had a magnitude of 5. 1 .

Due to its position on the “Ring of Fire,” a vast archipelago, Indonesia frequently experiences earthquakes.

Maurice Ogbonna, the cross-river commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), was discovered dead in a hotel in Calabar.

His officers, who had arrived to pick him up for a scheduled assignment, discovered him dead.

Irene Ugbo-Obase, the Cross River State Police Command’s spokesperson, confirmed the development and stated that a cause of death was being investigated.

Ogbonna, who was only recently in charge of the state when she was transferred to Cross River in August 2025, was not already in full charge.

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Marwa Mourns

In addition, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, the agency’s Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, is present. Over the incident, Ogbonna’s family has been inpologise.

He claimed that the death report was brought to his attention in Borno State, where he was a participant in a head-of-agency retreat organized by the Federal Ministry of Justice.

Femi Babafemi, the agency’s spokesman, made this known in a statement released on Friday.

At 10 a.m., CN Ogbonna was supposed to lead his officers on some scheduled engagements. m. On September 18, 2025, his officers arrived at his hotel room in the company of the hotel staff, and they received numerous knocks at his door and calls to his phone line that remained unanswered.

According to Babafemi, one of the hotel staff’s unsuccessful attempts to force or open the door from the outside led to the discovery of the Commander’s lifeless body through a window that had to be opened by the hotel staff.

Alerted by law enforcement

He continued, “The police command in the state was immediately alerted, and the Commissioner of Police personally visited the scene while the police continued to investigate the cause of death.”

The agency’s Chairman/Chief Executive has since instructed ACGN Mathew Ewah, the Zonal Commander of Zone 14 of NDLEA, to relocate to Calabar in order to assist with the police investigation.