NMA vows to continue strike

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The Nigerian Medical Association has threatened never to suspend the ongoing strike  unless the Federal Government reverses the sacking of  16, 000 resident doctors.

The Lagos State Chairman of the association , Dr. Tope Ojo, who spoke at a media briefing in Lagos on Saturday, vowed that the NMA would only resume negotiations with the Federal Government when it  reverses the sacking of  the doctors.  Based on the doctors, the  action is definitely an act of victimisation which proves that government is going to frustrate doctors in the country.

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34 massacred in Central Africa

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“At least 34 people from several villages were killed between August 13 and 15 in the M’bres region by armed men identified by inhabitants as ex-Seleka,” an officer in the African peacekeeping force, MISCA, told the AFP news agency on the same day. The officer said the fleeing residents spoke of the attackers “firing on their victims at point-blank range and chasing them into the bush and some of the victims died by hanging, others were beaten or tortured to death”. 

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Photos: 2 stolen babies reunited with parents in Imo state.

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The Imo state police command have successfully rescued and returned two babies abducted from their mothers a few hours after they were born.

While presenting the rescued babies to their mothers at the Imo state Police command headquarters, the head of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Imo police command, Mrs Elizabeth Okosun, said the police was able to rescue one of the babies after a tip-off by a commercial tricycle rider who suspected the shady behavior of the suspects when they boarded his tricycle about to travel with the baby to another state. 
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EFCC Arrest Former Bank Manager for ₦81million fraud

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Find the EFCC press release below...

A former branch manager of one of the new generation banks, (Ecobank Plc), Victor Amushie has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for a credit fraud in the sum of N81, 024, 749.28( Eighty One Million, Twenty-Four Thousand, Seven Hundred and Forty Nine Naira, Twenty Eight kobo only).

The suspect allegedly packaged loan facilities for himself, using several names and accounts of some customers of his bank, with whom he shared the proceeds.

The loans went bad and the bank had to hold Amushie, who was on the verge of running out of the country before being apprehended by operatives of the EFCC.
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Family of 5 found dead in Abeokuta

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A Family of 5,  a father, mother and their three children were found dead in their house yesterday Friday August 15th at Temidire Community, in Sabo, Abeokuta North LGA of Ogun State. The dead people have already been identified as Aliu Adeboye, his younger wife identified as Iya  Aliya and 3  of Adeboye's  6 children. 
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PhotoNews: Touching Photos from Liberia as country battles spreading Ebola epidermic

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A mother and child stand on top of a mattress in an Ebola isolation station in Liberia for suspected victims of the virus

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August 15th Iraq SITREP: The king is dead, long live the king

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12th Aug: The United States sends another 130 "Advisors" to Iraqi Kurdistan

13th Aug: The US is reporting that its reconnaissance missions are confirming that the plight of the Yazidis is not as severe as was expected
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Ebola Control: NYSC Suspends Orientation In 6 States

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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced the suspension of scheduled stream two orientation programme of the 2014 Batch ‘B’ Orientation in six states billed to start on Monday, September 1st due to the dreaded Ebola disease in the country.  Brig Gen Johnson Olawumi, the Director General of the NYSC, who announced the decision in Kubwa Orientation Camp in the Federal Capital Territory, said the corps members deployed to Adamawa, Bauchi, Jigawa, Borno, Gombe, and Yobe States will be affected by the directive.
 

Control of Ebola epidemic will take 6 months - President of Doctors Without borders

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 The International President of Doctors Without Borders, Joanne Liu (pictured left), said today August 15th that it can take 6 months to bring the existing Ebola epidemic sweeping through West Africa under control. She said this after having a 10-day trip to countries in West Africa where the outbreak has up to now occurred. Liu, who met with Ebola patients & doctors, said the outbreak felt like'wartime'

"The main thing I come back to is that it is deteriorating faster, moving faster than we can respond to. To put it in context with my time with DWB, I really feel that it is like wartime, in terms of fear and nobody knowing what is going on. We need a response in terms of international organizations and states, and it needs to happen now if we want to contain this epidemic. Over the next six months we should get the upper hand on the epidemic, this is my gut feeling. We need people with a hands-on operational mindset to combat the outbreak." she said

Photos: Fashola commissions newly refurbished Tejuosho market

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 Lagos state Governor, Raji Fashola today August 15th commissioned the newly refurbished Tejuosho market in Yaba Lagos, 7 years after the old market structure was completely gutted by fire.

 

The refurbished market, which used to have 1,484 lockup, has been increased to 2,640. Facilities in the new market complex includes banking spaces, 8 lifts to enable goods, services and people move up, two escalators for up and down movement of people, two ramps designed to assist physically handicapped people to get into and out of the building and a crèche where nursing mothers can attend to and keep their children while they are trading.

There is also a dedicated Fire Service Station within the complex with fire fighting systems built in the market to forestall any incident of fire disaster as well as a dedicated 800-vehicle capacity car-park unit. See more photos after the break.

U.S. Claims Ebola experimental drug 'Nanosilver' is a pesticide, warns

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Yesterday we heard that the experimental drug called'Nanosilver'produced by a Nigerian in diaspora for the treatment of Ebola is here the country. (read here).

 Nevertheless now, regardless of the experimental drug getting approval for use by the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that Nanosilver is just a pesticide

From Reuters

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it has become aware of products being sold online that fraudulently claim to prevent or treat Ebola.

The FDA's warning comes on the heels of comments by Nigeria's top health official, Onyebuchi Chukwu, who reportedly said earlier Thursday that eight Ebola patients in Lagos, the country's capital, will receive an experimental treatment called nano-silver.

“Don’t misuse your body for any reason”- Susan Peters

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When asked by the Sun about possible advice for ladies who do all manner of things to achieve cheap social status,Susan Peters who says she was born with a silver spoon replied…

First, I will say that we (women) are like flowers that blossom for sometimes, but after a while go down. If you misuse your body when you are growing up, it will definitely tell on you when you are ageing….

I advise young women not to misuse their body for monetary reasons. Secondly, I will advise them to go to school and try to complete their education. They should be well focused on a particular vocation and develop on it.

Couple stabbed to death in Edo

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 Residents of Upper Sakponba in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State were thrown into mourning on Thursday when unknown attackers stabbed a couple to death. They were said to be on their way to the market when they were attacked. It was gathered that one of the victims, identified as Angela, died instantly while the husband, Egboigbodin, who was said to have been stabbed severally, died later in a hospital. One of eyewitnesses, said they was about to cross to the other side of the road when the attackers struck.

Lagos residents enjoying 18-hour electricity -BPE

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The Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, Mr. Benjamin Dikki, has claimed that electricity consumers in Lagos State now get 18-hour uninterrupted power supply.

His claim was however countered by residents in the state who spoke with our correspondent on Friday.

Dikki, who made the remarks when members of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture paid a courtesy visit to the bureau in Abuja, stated that power privatisation in Nigeria had started yielding positive results.
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Presidency responds to statement which alleges GEJ unmasked area of Chibok women

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Below is the State House Press Release
Press release which alleges that president Jonathan has revealed location of Chibok girls is political dirty trick... All media organisations and persons on my mailing list should kindly disregard the press release purportedly issued by me earlier today titled: President Jonathan reveals location of Chibok girls and exposes Boko Haram masterminds.

Gov. Fashola blasts GEJ & VP Sambo, says Nigeria is worse off under their leadership

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In a speech he delivered yesterday August 14th to mark the 50th birthday of former Bayelsa state Governor, Timipre Sylva in Abuja, Governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola said despite the academic qualifications of both President Jonathan and VP Namadi Sambo, their leadership skills have by no means benefited the living standard of the normal Nigerian, insisting that the lives of Nigerians is worse off now than what it had been four years ago. 

"Even recently, we all used to think that our National development was inhibited by the fact that we never had a university graduate as leader of any national government in an executive capacity. This perhaps alludes only faintly to some of what I have discussed about the elite consensus  but it is not quite the same. Thankfully, the myth for graduate leadership, desirable as it is has now been exploded. We now have two graduates, a Zoologist and an Architect at the helm of our National affairs and I think that the majority of Nigerians would tell you today that their lives are worse off today than they were 4 years ago. Clearly in my view there must be more to leadership than a University degree and educational qualification.

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OAU re-opens Aug 24

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The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State have announced the re-opening of the institution after its closure in June due to students’ protest. A release by the university’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Abiodun Olanrewaju, on Friday, stated that it will be officially re-opened on Sunday, August 24. It will be recalled that OAU was closed on Wednesday, June 18, over protests by its students against the increase in their school fees. Olanrewaju said, “Following the closure of the University on Wednesday, 18th June, 2014, the Senate of the University again reconvened on Friday, 15th August, 2014, to announce the re-opening of the University. 

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Police officer who shot & killed unarmed teen in Missouri finally named

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The police officer who shot and killed black teenager Michael Brown on a street in Ferguson, St. Louis last Saturday August 9th has been named. His name is Darren Wilson and he's supposedly 'torn up' over the shooting. They are yet to release a pic of what the officer looks like.

Daniel Brown is said to be a six-year veteran of the Ferguson Police Department and has no history of disciplinary action. The police claim the officer was treated for injuries after the shooting. Officer Wilson claims Michael attacked him and struggled with him over his gun during the altercation. 

The Ferguson police chief in a press briefing today gave a timeline of the minutes leading up to the shooting on Saturday afternoon.

"At 11.48am, Officer Wilson was at an unrelated ‘sick call’ with an ambulance. At 11.51am, a 911 call came in reporting a 'strong-armed' robbery at a convenience store, which included a description of two suspects."

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NMA rejects sack of 16 thousand medical doctors

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The Nigerian Medical Association has rejected the sack of resident doctors by the Federal Govt which happened on Wednesday August 13th.  At a media briefing today in Abuja, the president of the NMA, Dr Kayode Obembe asked the  government to withdraw its circular on the sack of the resident doctors and also reverse the directive.

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Photos: Fuel Tanker on fire along Lagos-Ibadan expressway

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 A fuel tanker is burning at Ogere junction over the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, causing heavy traffic on the road. Fortunately no lives or vehicles were lost in the inferno. Calling on FRSC officials to go on to the scene and manage the situation. See more Photo after the break