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Eruptions will cease at some point The plume of ash and gases that loomed large after the April 22, 2021 eruption. By: Gloriah• Just when many persons here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and abroad were thinking that La Soufrière had pushed out all that it had, the giant asserted that its end-time will only be decided when it was ready.  On the morning of Thursday, 22nd April, NEMO reported that high-level seismic tremors generated by explosive activity at the volcano and lasting for ab...

COVID Monitoring Unit Chief Aims to Preserve Lives Article by April 21, 2021 Ronald Chapman is not the “mini COVID-19 czar”; and he certainly is not the “national killjoy” out to spoil the fun of Barbadians who want to return to a life of simple pleasures and enjoyment. The director of the Government’s COVID-19 Monitoring Unit has become the man some Bajans love to hate because he and his team have had the unenviable task of shutting down house parties, fetes, bars...

x “Ja’afar’s life is in danger as unidentified persons, likely to be ‘hit men’, have been stalking him both at his Abuja and Kano residences,” a close media associate of the publisher, who prefers anonymity, told PRNigeria. Jaafar had published video clips of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano in October 2018, allegedly showing him collecting kickbacks in dollars from a contractor. Following the governor’s recent interview with BBC Hausa on Fri...

The publisher of Daily Nigerian, Mr. Jaafar Jaafar, has fled his house and gone into hiding after receiving several security threats, in recent times. A close media associate of the investigative reporter told PRNigeria that unknown persons have been on his trail for a while now. “Ja’afar’s life is in danger as unidentified persons, likely to be ‘hit men’, have been stalking him both at his Abuja and Kano residences,” the associate, who prefers anonymity said. The journalist had pub...

  Head of Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has called on government to encourage and assist Ghanaians to go into mining. Charles Owusu bemoaned the habit of government giving premium opportunity to foreign companies to mine the countrys minerals. He outlined problems associated with giving mining concessions to foreign companies over local mining companies explaining the nation doesnt benefit when the mining sector is mainly exploited by foreign companies. He noted tha...

  Head of Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has called on Ghanaians to support the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor in his quest to end illegal mining in the country. The Minister, during a National Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining, pledged to fight the menace. In a 15-point communique read by him on Thursday, April 15, Abu Jinapor stressed that sanctions and penalties imposed by the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, 2019...

  Head of Monitoring Unit of the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has called for a conference of fetish priests to be held in Ghana. He was discussing the recent murder of an 11-year old boy by teenagers at Kasoa in the Central Region. The suspects, Felix Nyarko, 16, and Nicholas Kini, 18, allegedly murdered Ishmael Mensah Abdallah for money rituals. Charles Owusu wondered why the fetish priests are not creating money for Ghana to develop. He noted that if the fetish priests indeed they have...

Volcano as the magma fills the space around the old 1979 dome. Photo by Soufrière Monitoring Unit (SMU).  KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent--The Caribbean island of St. Vincent has declared a red alert and issued an evacuation order after seismologists warned that the La Soufrière volcano shows signs of an imminent eruption.   Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves issued the order on Thursday after several days of increased seismic activity.   The country’s National Emergency Management Organisation (NE...

  Head of Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has warned against reckless driving and motor riding on the roads. According to research, many people have died in road accidents than of Coronavirus. Over 700 lives have been claimed in months by road accidents but Coronavirus deaths in a year are less than deaths as a result of road accidents. The usual causes of road accidents in the country are overspeeding, overtaking, bad roads among other bad road habits. Charles Owusu ...

Group Demands Release Of Leaders Detained By Police Over Complaints Against APC Chieftain The group said the leaders from the Uzebu community in Edo State include Fedelis Owen (secretary, Uzebu community), Martins Obakpolor, Sunday Ogbonmwan and Victor Omorogbe. by SaharaReporters, New York Apr 07, 2021 A human rights group, Talakawa Parliament on Tuesday condemned the continued detention of its four Edo community leaders at the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja. The group said the leaders fro...