#Ebola: US Approves Liberia Request To Send Untested Drug

Liberia has said it will receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug to treat infected doctors in the West African country.

A statement, published on the Liberian presidency's website on Monday, said the United States had approved a request from Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to ship the medicine, ZMapp, after a direct appeal to US President Barack Obama on Friday.

However, a spokesperson for the US Health and Human Services (HHS) Department said US authorities had simply assisted in connecting the Liberian government with the drug's manufacturer.

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SAD: US actor Robin Williams found dead

Robin Williams, an Oscar-winning actor and comedian, has died from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California, Marin County Sheriff’s Office said. He was 63.
“This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken,” Williams’s wife Susan Schneider said in a statement on Monday.
The sheriff’s coroner’s division said it suspects the death was a....

120Days and Still Counting..... #BringBackOurGirls: #ChibokGirls deserve continued attention

When a vicious militant group kidnapped nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls in April, much of the world was outraged. The Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls went viral, spawning broad concern from people around the globe — and smug derision from critics of digital advocacy.

Four months later, about 60 of the girls have managed to escape and the rest remain missing. The world has mostly moved on, distracted by such events as wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the shoot down of a Malaysian jetliner and the immigration crisis at the U.S. border.

But amid all the horrors that regularly compete for the world’s attention, this one shouldn’t be forgotten.

For one thing, the teenage captives are symbols of the importance of educating girls. They were all seized after returning to school in a dangerous area to take their final exams. Among them are future lawyers, doctors and teachers — women who could someday help lead their country.

USA Today, in an editorial on Tuesday, queried President Goodluck Jonathan’s response to enquiries about the Chibok girls at the ongoing U.S.-African Leaders Summit in Washington DC. As far as the newspaper is concerned, the president’s response does not inspire confidence

Please #BringBackOurGirls #ChibokGirls #BringBackOurGirlsNowAndAlive

#BokoHaram: [PHOTO] Trainer of female bombers’ arrested in Kano

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano has arrested a man suspected to be the trainer of female suicide bombers.
16 females said to be undergoing....

PHOTO: Man stabs wife to death for infecting him with HIV

Katongu, stitches of the self-inflicted injury

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man, Phillip Katongu, for allegedly stabbing his wife to death.
Katongu, who hails from Wamba, Nasarawa State, was apprehended by operatives of the Department of Criminal Investigations, Yaba, Lagos.
The police said the victim, Justina, was.....

NIGERIA: Paris bound Air France develops fault

A Paris bound Air France flight Sunday afternoon developed fault midway its trip forcing the aircraft to return to Lagos. At the moment, the plane, which is yet to be identified, is having difficult landing at the MMIA, Lagos due to....

SAD! FG not serious about fighting Ebola –Doctors, nurses

The Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association and the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives have accused the Federal Government of not being proactive enough in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease.

The doctors and nurses said at separate news conferences in Lagos on Sunday, that the government had yet to put in....

LATEST! EBOLA VIRUS: FINALLY! Ghana Records First Case of Ebola

After several negative scares and a near invincible general outlook concerning Ebola which has become a regional threat to West Africa, it seems Ghana just may have recorded her first case of Ebola!
It is reported that on Friday afternoon, a....

PHOTO: I once thought of reducing my boobs – Ebinabo Potts-Johnson

Photo showing Ebinabo with her acclaimed big boobs

Maybe her chest isn’t as heavy as Cossy Orjiakor, or as monstrous as Foluke Daramola’s but upcoming actress and model, Ebinabo Potts-Johnson has a pair of mammary that stand out, far out from her chest to get you thinking you are seeing a trick of nature or something.
She got her claim to fame after bagging the....

SEE: 10 quick ways to get married

Marriage should not pose a challenge when you pull down some barriers and adhere to these rules. Your Mr. /Miss Right might just be some steps away

• Don’t play hard to get

Playing hard to get makes it hard to find Mr. /Ms. Right. You need not pretend to be busy when asked out on a date; neither should you feign nonchalance when you really desire that person asking you out. There is a chance that when you change gear, it can be someone who will make you unhappy.

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[MUST READ] Bitter Kola and Ebola: What Nigerians must know

In this interview, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, bares his mind on the deadly ebola virus. He also speaks on the strike by doctors, passionately appealed to them to call it off. 

His words: “If doctors are not at their posts, we would have a challenge.  And some people have even written that part of the reason  the index case was successfully handled was because doctors were on strike and, if not, the index case may have been taken to a public health facility.  How true that is I don’t know; but as the Minister of Health, I would want the doctors to call off their strike.  In the event that we, God forbid, have more cases, we would need the doctors”.

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118Days and Still Counting..... #BringBackOurGirls: #ChibokGirls deserve continued attention

When a vicious militant group kidnapped nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls in April, much of the world was outraged. The Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls went viral, spawning broad concern from people around the globe — and smug derision from critics of digital advocacy.

Four months later, about 60 of the girls have managed to escape and the rest remain missing. The world has mostly moved on, distracted by such events as wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the shoot down of a Malaysian jetliner and the immigration crisis at the U.S. border.

But amid all the horrors that regularly compete for the world’s attention, this one shouldn’t be forgotten.

For one thing, the teenage captives are symbols of the importance of educating girls. They were all seized after returning to school in a dangerous area to take their final exams. Among them are future lawyers, doctors and teachers — women who could someday help lead their country.

USA Today, in an editorial on Tuesday, queried President Goodluck Jonathan’s response to enquiries about the Chibok girls at the ongoing U.S.-African Leaders Summit in Washington DC. As far as the newspaper is concerned, the president’s response does not inspire confidence

Please #BringBackOurGirls #ChibokGirls #BringBackOurGirlsNowAndAlive

CONGRATS! INEC declares Gov Rauf Aregbesola Winner of the Osun State 2014 Gubernatorial Election

Osun state governor and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress,APC, has won Saturday’s governorship election.

In the announced results by the returning officer, who is also the Vice Chancellor Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Professor Bamitale Omole, the Governor of Osun State and the All Progressives Congress candidate, Rauf Aregbesola, polled a total of 394,684 votes to emerge the winner of the state governorship election held on Saturday.

Aregbesola won in 24 local government areas of the 30 local government areas in the state to maintain a clear lead. His closest rival and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, garnered 292,750 votes to occupy second position. He won in six local government areas. The Labour Party’s candidate, Mr. Fatai Akinbade, occupied a distant third position. He won no local government area.

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[Ebola Is Not A Death Sentence!] PHOTO: Lagos State sets up Special Wards for #Ebola victims

Lagos State Government has built a Special Centers for patients with symptoms of the Ebola virus at the Mainland Hospital in Yaba. The ward is situated at the back of the hospital and are tents
under which patients are camped and fenced in with planks. 

The Ebola special care centre was built to help contain the situation and reduce possible spread of the disease.

Pls For more information on Ebola contact:

WHO Media centre
Telephone: +41 22 791 2222
E-mail: mediainquiries@who.int

Or
www.ebolaalert.org
@ebolaalert
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Today's Photo: A church in Abia declares crusade against #Ebola!

Since scientists are not forthcoming in proffering solutions to the deadly Ebola virus, it appears Nigerian churches are the next best hope.

Abeg! At the moment, Ebola has no vaccine or cure yet. But it is preventable, practice basic health hygiene. Ebola is not a death sentence. Wash your hands regularly with soap and water. At the moment don't attend to sick persons instead seek the attention of trained medical professional that can handle patient.
Keep your environment clean....and Be safe!

Pls For more information on Ebola contact:

WHO Media centre
Telephone: +41 22 791 2222
E-mail: mediainquiries@who.int

Or
www.ebolaalert.org
@ebolaalert

[PHOTO] #Ebola: Two dead, 20 others hospitalized over excessive salt consumption

At least two persons have been feared dead with 20 others hospitalised in various hospitals in Plateau State after consuming excessive quantity of salt and bitter kola to prevent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) attack following a viral message on social media that it could prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
In Abuja the....

[READ] Woman Jumps Off Moving Vehicle Upon Learning Mother-In-Law Is In Town

A 23-year-old woman, in Zimbabwe, identified as Samantha Musawenkosi Madebe, allegedly jumped off a moving vehicle and died after learning that her mother-in-law had paid them a surprise visit from South Africa.
The woman’s family, on Thursday dragged the.....

#Ebola virus disease: How To Save Your Life Now!

Key facts

• Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans.
• EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%.
• EVD outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.
• The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.
• Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are considered to be the natural host of the Ebola virus.
• Severely ill patients require intensive supportive care. No licensed specific treatment or vaccine is available for use in people or animals.

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LASTEST!! WHO declares #Ebola ‘an international emergency’

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread.
WHO declared similar emergencies for the swine flu pandemic in 2009 and for polio in May.
The WHO chief, Dr Margaret Chan, said the announcement on Friday is “a clear call for international solidarity” but acknowledged that many countries would probably not have any Ebola cases.
“Countries affected to date simply do not have the capacity to manage an outbreak of this size and complexity on their own,” Chan said at a news conference in Geneva.
“I urge the international community to provide this support on the most urgent basis possible,” she added.
The agency had convened an expert committee this week to assess the severity of the ongoing epidemic – the largest and longest in history.
The current outbreak of Ebola began in Guinea in March and has since spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
There is no licenced treatment or vaccine for Ebola and the death rate has been about 50 percent.

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Fashola bows, reverts #LASU fees to N25,000

 Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday reverted the school fees being paid by students of the Lagos State University, LASU, to the old rate of N25, 000.

This came as armed security operatives shot teargas canisters at the members of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU-LASU, who gathered few.....

#Ebola Latest: US rejects Nigeria’s request for trial drug

The United States of America, yesterday, dashed the hope of an early cure for Ebola Virus victims in Nigeria when it refused to share the trial drug with Nigeria. US President Barak Obama says it would....

#Ebola: 40 Reportedly Quarantined In #Lagos

SaharaReporters has learned that as many as 40 persons may have been quarantined in Lagos on suspicion of Ebola infection, and some of them may already have tested positive.  
In an email to fellow members of an Igbo group (Igboville), John Okiyi Kalu, told the story of a nurse who became a member last December and joined an effort to provide free medical services in Aba. 
That member, who subsequently took a job in Lagos this year, appears to have been one of the nurses who attended to Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who died of Ebola in the city last week.  One of those nurses died yesterday. 
Mr. Kalu said in the email that his group wants to launch twitter and facebook campaigns starting on Friday morning using the hash tag, #GiveThemExperimentalDrugs to draw attention to their plight, and to prevail on the United States to send the drugs to needy African countries.
“It is inhuman to keep people and wait for them to die,” he said, noting he was writing, “with my head bowed in tears and agony.”

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PHOTO: Mother of baby born without genital duped of N5m By Mrs 'Blessing Asatu'

Photo: 3year old Timothy Atoe Showing Genital area

A 38 year-old woman, Charity Atoe has called on the police to help her unravel the location of a woman whom she alleged eloped with funds donated for the surgery of her three years old son, Timothy, who was born without genitals.
Charity who gave the name of the woman as Blessing Asatu said the total money donated was about N5m.
She was at the premises of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists to narrate her story.
Charity said doctors at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital demanded for N900,000 to perform a corrective surgery and that efforts to raise the money in Edo state failed which made her to go to Lagos State to seek for help.
It was on her way to Redeemed Christian Church of God that she claimed to have met Blessing who offered to help her by calling journalists who made her son’s plight public.

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115Days and Still Counting..... #BringBackOurGirls: #ChibokGirls deserve continued attention

When a vicious militant group kidnapped nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls in April, much of the world was outraged. The Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls went viral, spawning broad concern from people around the globe — and smug derision from critics of digital advocacy.

Four months later, about 60 of the girls have managed to escape and the rest remain missing. The world has mostly moved on, distracted by such events as wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the shoot down of a Malaysian jetliner and the immigration crisis at the U.S. border.

But amid all the horrors that regularly compete for the world’s attention, this one shouldn’t be forgotten.

For one thing, the teenage captives are symbols of the importance of educating girls. They were all seized after returning to school in a dangerous area to take their final exams. Among them are future lawyers, doctors and teachers — women who could someday help lead their country.

USA Today, in an editorial on Tuesday, queried President Goodluck Jonathan’s response to enquiries about the Chibok girls at the ongoing U.S.-African Leaders Summit in Washington DC. As far as the newspaper is concerned, the president’s response does not inspire confidence

Please #BringBackOurGirls #ChibokGirls #BringBackOurGirlsNowAndAlive

VIDEO: A Drug For #Ebola?

Is there a Drug For Ebola? Watch and Share your thoughts.....Thanks!

#Ebola virus disease: How To Save Your Life Now!

Key facts

• Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans.
• EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%.
• EVD outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.
• The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.
• Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are considered to be the natural host of the Ebola virus.
• Severely ill patients require intensive supportive care. No licensed specific treatment or vaccine is available for use in people or animals.

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SAD! Nigeria's Second Republic Former Minister Of Transport, Umaru Dikko Is Dead

Umaru Dikko

Nigeria’s Second Republic  Minister of Transport, Alhaji Umaru Dikko has died this morning.

He died in the early hours of Tuesday in a...

REVEALED! WHY MEN ARE SO SLEEPY AFTER SEX

Research in the journal Neuroscience and Behavioural Reviews in 2012 has explained the sleeping-pill like effect sex has on men. Brain scans showed the pre-frontal cortex, the area associated with consciousness, alertness and mental activity, 'switches off' after an orgasm.
Other research has shown that in...

PHOTO: Man commits suicide after fiancée dumps him

Oluwatosin Otaiku

Tragedy struck at the Onikolobo area of Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday when a 33-year-old man, Oluwatosin Otaiku, stabbed himself to death after his fiancee, Olaogun Oluwatoyin, discontinued the relationship.

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LATEST! Uche Ogbodo Dumped Hubby Because Of His Condition—Insider Alleges

Nollywood never ceases to come up with different thrillers, especially real life dramas as it players find themselves in one hot controversy or the other. If it is not husband snatching today, it would be infidelity mess.

Though these scandals used to be rampant among the females acts, but nowadays, both the males and the females have several skeletons in their cupboards.

One will not easily forget an actor that told his lover in one city that he was going to Lagos for a job, but was actually planning to get....

MUST READ: Autism 'Begins Long Before Birth'

Pregnancy: problems in brain development in the womb may underpin autism. Scientists say they have new evidence that autism begins in the womb.
Patchy changes in the developing brain long before birth may cause symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), research suggests.
The study, in the New England Journal of Medicine, raises hopes that better understanding of the brain may improve the lives of children with autism.

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#SAD! PHOTO: Nigerian Woman Loses Her Life On Her Way Back From Night Vigil In Dublin

Death has done its harmful deed again to the lives of three Nigerian women and a 10-year-old girl were killed in a car crash in Co Westmeath, Dublin, It was a tragedy as the women were in their....