Fire on Monday gutted a section of World Trade Centre building located in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. An eyewitness told journalists that the fire started from the top of the skyscraper which dots the skyline of Central Business District, Abuja as smoke billowed from the pinnacle. General Manager, WTC Abuja, Mr Ibukun Adeogun, explained that the fire had been extinguished by high-pressure sprinklers in the building. He said, “There was a minor fire outbreak at one of the floors close to the top floor near the shaft. The building is a high-tech building and the sprinklers put out the fire.…

More than 200 universities are backing a legal challenge to Trump administration’s new restrictions on international students, arguing that the policy jeopardizes students’ safety and forces schools to reconsider fall plans they have spent months preparing. The schools have signed court briefs supporting Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as they sue US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal court in Boston. The lawsuit challenges a recently announced directive saying international students cannot stay in the US if they take all their classes online this fall. A wide range of colleges and state and local officials are standing…

Ms Zindzi Mandela, youngest daughter of South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died at the age of 59. She died in a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of Monday morning, public broadcaster SABC said. She was serving as South African ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death. The cause of her death was not immediately revealed. Zindzi Mandela was Nelson Mandela's sixth child and his second with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, his second wife. President Cyril Ramaphosa in a statement said Zindzi Mandela had "during our years of struggle brought home the…

Deaths from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria could surge in poor and middle-income countries as already weak health systems grapple with severe disruptions from Covid-19 pandemic, according to a predictive study published on Monday. Over the next five years, deaths from the three diseases could rise by as much as 10%, 20% and 36% respectively - putting the mortality impact on a scale similar to the direct impact of the coronavirus pandemic itself, the modelling study found. “In countries with a high malaria burden and large HIV and TB epidemics, even short-term disruptions could have devastating consequences for the millions of…