4 more Ebola patients discharged – Health Minister

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4 more patients have now been certified clean and discharged from the Ebola Isolation center in Lagos after undergoing treatment for the deadly disease. The four patients include two male doctors, the nurse who'd earlier escaped from the isolation center and ran to Enugu and women patient who had been on admission during the time Patrick Sawyer was hospitalized at the First Consultant Hospital. 

The headlines of these discharge was disclosed in a statement released today by the Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu and signed by his his Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Mr. Dan Nwomeh

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Political aspirant Pictured on his kneels begging for votes (photo)

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House of Reps member, Hon. Samson Osagie spotted above begging with APC members to vote for him - in Edo state

Photos: Doctors, students, head to the street to protest mass sack of resident doctors

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Medical doctors, students, consultants converged at the Lagos University Teaching hospital, (LUTH), Idi Araba, today to protest the recent sack of 16,000 resident doctors by the Federal Government. The protest was led by the Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Tope Ojo. The doctors said their strike was never about a rise in their salary, that they certainly were fighting for was for better structures and equipment in hospitals across the country. See more photos after the jump.

Nuhu Ribadu defends dumping APC for PDP

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Former EFCC boss Nuhu Ribadu has defended his defection from APC to PDP, which he announced over the weekend. Speaking through his spokesperson Abdulaziz Abdulaziz to Punch, Ribadu said;

"In Nigeria, especially in politics, you can’t say that this is an exclusive party for the people who are thieves or this is for good people. It’s just like saying that all Yorubas are this or all Igbos are this. In every group of people, there must be good people and there are bad people. Of course, the good may be more than the bad or the bad may be more than the good in any group. But there is no any party that is exclusively for the good people or for the bad people.”. Continue...

Ebola: Nano Silver fails to meet health Ethics Code - Health Minister

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The minister said this today August 18th while receiving the US Ambassador, Mr James Entwistle, in his office in Abuja.

Nigerian Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu says the drug, produced by a Nigerian in diaspora, has failed health requirements and won't be applied to Ebola patients in Nigeria.

 

The minister said this today August 18th while receiving the US Ambassador, Mr James Entwistle, in his office in Abuja.

EFCC Arrests 4 Bankers for ATM Fraud

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 "Four bankers: Mansur Danlami, Ejiro Eborikpo, Nina Stephen and Samson Nwodo have been arrested by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for conspiracy to steal the sum of N5, 100, 000 (Five Million One Hundred Thousand Naira Only) from a customer’s account....

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.
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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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Cameroon orders security agents to hide intelligence from Nigeria

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Strong indications have emerged that Nigeria’s neighbour, Cameroon, is not cooperating with the country in the efforts to stop the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria and its borders.

Investigations on Friday revealed that the Cameroonian government had issued a directive to all its military commanders in charge of border areas with Nigeria to keep all critical information about Boko Haram away from Nigeria.

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Chadian soldiers free Boko Haram captives

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Chad’s troops have rescued most of the 100 people kidnapped by the Boko Haram sect, following a successful military operation against the sect. The terrorist group earlier this month kidnapped 100 people, according to a Nigerian security official and a local self-defence member. The Associated Press reported that the rescue operation took place on Friday. The abductions took place on August 10 in Doron Baga in the Kukawa area near the border with Chad, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

Ribadu Decamps APC, Joins PDP

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It seems we in a weather of sudden changes and we’ve got to accept that. A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has dumped the opposition All Progressives Congress [APC] and joined the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP]. Just as many were shocked at sudden and unexpected defection of the former gov. of Osun, Olagusoye Oyinlola from PDP to APC, Ribudu decamping is of greater surprise.  Mr. Ribadu was the presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] in 2011 and until his defection today considered one of the presidential prospects of the APC in the 2015 presidential election.
 

Boko Haram Alleged Sponsor, Sheriff, In Closed Door Meeting With Pres. Jonathan In Aso Rock

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The man Femi Fani-Kayode said made him to leave the APC, as he is the “known creator” of Boko Haram is now in the same PDP with Fani-Kayode and the man is now President Goodluck Jonathan’s friend.

Ex-Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff came out of a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Aso Rock presidential villa on Friday, declaring that his decision to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in the interest of Nigeria as a nation.
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Former Abia state Gov Uzor Kalu writes about his successor, Theodore Orji, calls him a chameleon.

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In a piece titled "The Chameleon in Theodore Orji", former Abia state Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu bared his thoughts about his successor and one time friend, Theodore Orji, calling him a chameleon. In the no-holds-barred piece, Uzor Kalu spoke about how he made Theodore Orji a governor and how his former friend turned his back on him after he became governor. Find the piece he posted on his Facebook below.

"The first thing that would strike any person meeting Theodore Ahamefule Orji for the first time – 16 years ago – was his humble personality. I doubt if he still carries himself with the same simplicity and can­dour, for which I have known him, now he has tested power as governor. I say so, because power has a way of intoxicating some people, especially those who never dreamed of getting it. I must openly sub­mit that I was taken in by his facial ap­pearance, not knowing that deep inside he was a different person all together – a chameleon. Subsequent events have since proved me right." 

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Impossible Fusion - written by Charly Boy

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 Article written by Charly Boy. Enjoy below...


A soulmate marriage does not at all mean that you have found someone you match up with on all the cards – on all the issues, on everything. That would be the most deadly dull thing to even imagine. Instead, it means you've found someone and they don't ever want to blow out that little light inside you. And you feel the same way about them. 

Growing up, seeing my Dad and Mum play the happy couple,  holding hands, stealing kisses, made marriage look so easy and beautiful. Hummmm for where? 
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SURE-P supports Abuja light rail project with N10bn

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The Chairman, Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, Gen. Martin-Luther Agwai (rtd), on Saturday in Abuja said the programme would support the completion of Abuja light rail project with N10 billion.

Agwai made this known while briefing newsmen after an inspection tour of the project.

He expressed satisfaction with the engineering design of the project and commended the Transport Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory for the effort.

UNIOSUN shut as students protest death of colleague

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The management of the Osun State University has closed down the Ikire Campus of the university indefinitely.

Our correspondent gathered that the management in a memo issued by the Registrar of the university announced the indefinite closure of the institution following an all night violent protest allegedly embarked upon by students of the school following the death of their colleague in an accident.

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Boko Haram link: APC to sue DSS, Ogar

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The All Progressives Congress has condemned the thinly-veiled attempt by the Directorate of Security Service to link the party with the insurgent group Boko Haram, without providing a shred of evidence to that effect, and called on the agency’s spokesperson Marilyn Ogar to resign or be fired.

In a statement issued in Ilorin on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also said it has decided to sue Ogar for attempting to blame the APC for the series of bomb blasts in the country, to give her the opportunity to present whatever evidence she may have of the APC ‘s complicity in a court of law.

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