Armed men attack Monrovia Ebola clinic, 29 patients pick race

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 In a new reported available Omo Oodua Blog, armed men yesterday night attacked an Ebola isolation centre in the densely populated Monrovia suburb of Westpoint, Liberia. 29 patients under quarantine reportedly fled the centre. Some reports say the armed men were residents of the region who looted materials employed by quarantine patients. A witness of the attack, Rebecca Wesseh said

 "They broke down the doors and looted the place. The patients all fled” The Head of Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams has confirmed the sad incident. But who goes to steal from sick, quarantined people? Are they mentally alright? More details later..

Photo: Police recover, return ₦15m to Sokoto robbery victim

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The Sokoto state Police command has recovered and returned N15million which was stolen from an unidentified man by a 5-man armed robbery gang at the Ilela border market in Ilela LGA of Sokoto state onJune 1st.

Parading the suspects with the money recovered at the Sokoto state Police command headquaters,  DCP Douglas Agbonleni who spoke on behalf of the Sokoto State Commissioner of Police, Gambo Lawal, gave an insight on how the robbers were able to dislodge their victim of the money and how they were subsequently caught.
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Abike Dabiri, Atiku Abubabkar blast the sacking of resident doctors by FG

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Ex-VP Atiku Abubakar and House of Reps member Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa disapprove the sack of 16,000 resident doctors by the Federal Govt following the doctors refusal to call off their strike. 
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Ebola : 5 patients almost fully recovered

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Nigeria’s health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu announced yesterday evening that 5 patients infected with Ebola are nearing full recovery.
His statement read;
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Nigerian military to court-martial over 100 soldiers for cowardice

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The Nigerian military is in the process of constituting a trial panel to try over 100 soldiers said to have exhibited “acts of cowardice” and “disobeyed deployment directives” in Maiduguri on Saturday, reliable military insiders have told PT. The soldiers were among several hundred troops being deployed from the army’s 7th Division in Maiduguri to locations in Damboa and Gwoza for major operations planned to significantly rout the extremist Boko Haram sect from the areas.

“But as we were about to depart, some of the soldiers began to behave funny,” a witness said. “They were acting in ways that were delaying the movement. This was a movement that had been timed and we had to arrive locations at a time that should coincide with other operational arrangements. And then these guys were slowing us down.”

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