Tag: WAR

Israel evacuation order for Gaza hospitals impossible – WHO

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Israel to withdraw its evacuation order for hospitals in northern Gaza. “There are patients who are there that cannot simply be moved, many there are on mechanical ventilators. “There are also newborns on incubators, people in unstable conditions, and it’s very difficult to move them,” WHO spokesman Tarik Jašarevi? said on Monday. He said the task was “almost impossible.” “We are calling on Israel to reconsider this order,” Jašarevi? said. So far, four trucks carrying surgical and dressing materials as well as medicines…

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Wage war against fake news, Gov. AbdulRasaq urges Nigerian media

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has urged the media in Nigeria to fight the menace of fake news before it brings down the country. AbdulRasaq made this call in Ilorin today during the 2020 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Kwara council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).The governor, represented by the state Commissioner for Communications, Mrs Harriet Afolabi-Oshartimehin, said that the events of the past weeks in the country had shown the danger of fake news and unverified or one-sided accounts of events. This, he said,…

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