Republic’s Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko said he was not going to ask the embattled city of Luhansk to share the aid that Russia’s convoy had brought earlier this week.
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
Donetsk Region Requests Humanitarian Aid as Fighting Continues in Ukraine
Republic’s Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko said he was not going to ask the embattled city of Luhansk to share the aid that Russia’s convoy had brought earlier this week.
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Ukraine Army Mobile Mortar Teams Shelling Donetsk – Independence Supporters
Ukraine’s army is using mobile mortar teams to shell downtown Donetsk, Volodymyr Konovalov, the defense minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, said Sunday. “Kiev is using the cowardly tactics of mortar teams. They fire 10-20 shells and retreat. The city is big, they are moving, there are enough places where they can hide,” Konovalov said. On Saturday, a mortar attack hit the center of Donetsk, killing a nine-year-old girl, the official reminded. Since mid-April, Kiev authorities have been conducting a special military operation in the east of Ukraine to crack down on independence supporters that refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the new government. Over 2,000 people have been killed and more than 5,000 injured since the start of Kiev’s offensive, according to the United Nations.
Over 500 Killed as IS Gains Control Over Syrian Air Base in Raqqah
Islamic State (IS) militants have seized an air base in the Syrian northern province Raqqa, with over 500 people being killed in the fighting, Agence France-Presse reported Sunday citing a monitoring group.
"One hundred and seventy Syrian soldiers were killed on Sunday in the offensive which led to the IS jihadists seizing Tabqa airport," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP.
Also, 346 IS jihadists has also been killed in the fighting at the air base since Tuesday, according to the Observatory.
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Boko Haram steals riffles in Borno police academy.
The Boko Haram insurgents, who attacked the Police Academy, Gwoza, Borno State, on Wednesday, seized not less than 200 assault rifles from the riot policemen on training.
Investigations revealed that about 159 of the guns were seized from men of the three mobile police units from Mopol 50, Abuja; Mopol 38 and Mopol 58 based in Akwanga and Lafia respectively in Nasarawa State.
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DR Congo confirms two deaths from Ebola
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Adamawa imposes 24-hour curfew on Madagali
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Gwoza: Boko Haram’s Claim is Empty - DHQ
The statement said:
“The claim is empty. The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Nigerian state is still intact. Any group of terrorists laying claim to any portion of the country will not be allowed to get away with that expression of delusion and crime. Appropriate military operations to secure that area from the activities of the bandits are still ongoing”.
British left, the French left, the Germans left, the Portuguese left, the Belgians left What are Fulanis Still doing ? - Asari Dokunbo
Boko Haram is not fighting for anything other than the seizure of political power by the Fulani people.
They are using Kanuri territory to perpetrate the evil, but the main people instigating this bloodletting are the Fulani from Futa Djallon. We know where they came from. They are colonialists and if we made the British to leave, what are these people doing here? They are also colonialists.You have to reflect and ask yourself some questions.
Kano is a Hausa city, the Emir of Kano is not a Hausa man; he is a Fulani. Ilorin is a Yoruba city, the Emir of Ilorin is a Fulani. Bida is a Nupe town, the Emir of Bida is a Fulani. Birnin Gwari is a Gbagi town, the Emir of Birnin Gwari is a Fulani. The Lamido of Adamawa who is residing in Yola is a Fulani, who claims he has other Fulanis in Cameroon and other places. These are not Fulani cities.
We know where they all came from.
They all migrated from far-flung places to their present locations. So if we know where they come from and we know that they are not from here, they came to colonise these territories. What are they still doing here? If the British left, the French left, the Germans left, the Portuguese left, the Belgians left, what are these people doing here? They are also colonialists, but this is what our elites are ready to accept.
Why should we allow foreigners to dominate the aborigines?
When people like us talk, they say these are very sensitive issues, don’t touch them. Why should we not touch them? Why should the Sultan of Sokoto be the head of Muslims in Nigeria? Where did we meet and make the Sultan our head?
So these are the things. But a lot of people don’t look beyond the surface. A man says he is born to rule; you have not asked yourself, if that man is born to rule, what about you? If the man is born to rule, you are born to be ruled.
So you become drawers of water and hewers of wood.
A wise man in one of the great books I have read said: For I have seen a grave injustice on the surface of the earth that I saw the servants riding on horseback and princes walking on foot. The Hausa man in Kano is walking on foot; Sanusi, a Fulani man, a Gambari from Guinea is riding on horseback.
Fulani Sulu-Gambari in Ilorin is riding on horseback. These are the issues that we’ve not been able to capture.
Why should injustice continue?
Why should the indigenous Hausa population in Kano not be given back what rightfully belongs to them? Why is it that in Ilorin, the indigenous Yoruba people, the ones they call Baba Agba, are not given back what rightfully belongs to them?
-Mujahid Dokubo Asari
24yr-old Footballer passes on after being hit in the head by object thrown by fan after match
Albert and his team mates were leaving the field at the end of a match between his club JS Kabylie and USM Alger in Tizi Ouzou, when an angry fan threw what is believed to be a rock.
Albert, who had scored the sole JSK goal, died a few hours later in the hospital. He was 24. Continue after the jump
Ukraine: Nothing to Celebrate
The 23rd anniversary of Ukraine's independence, that will be celebrated on August 24, comes as the most tragic national day for a war-ravaged country in the heart of Europe. Military parade in Kiev is overshadowed by the Ukrainian army punitive operation in the eastern regions amid failed diplomatic efforts to reach a much-awaited ceasefire.
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August 21 Iraq SITREP by Mindfriedo: American Hostage Crisis
NB: The term Salafi may refer to a Puritan Sunni (or rarely Shia) but in these SITREPs is being referred synonymously with Wahabi Takfiris.
The titles Farooq and Siddique were originally those of Ali ibn Abi Talib (as), but over the ages, for whatever reasons, have been associated with Omar ibn Khattab and Abu Bakr (the second and first Caliphs).
Similarly the term Salaf may have referred to a pious worshipper but, as is the norm now, the term Salafi Jihadism is associated with Wahabism. To avoid confusion, the term Salaf here does not refer to its “original” purpose/meaning.
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Russian Foreign Ministry Statement On The Start Of The Delivery Of Humanitarian Relief Aid To Southeastern Ukraine
A lorry convoy with many hundreds of tonnes of humanitarian relief aid, urgently needed by the people in these regions, has been standing idle for a week now on the Russian-Ukrainian border. Over this period, the Russian side has made unprecedented efforts in all areas and at all levels in order to complete the required formalities. We have met all conceivable and inconceivable demands of the Ukrainian side and have submitted to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) exhaustive lists of food, drinking water, medications, essential items and diesel generators due to be delivered to Lugansk, where they are urgently needed by women, children and the elderly.
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I’m not in PDP on anyone’s errand – Ribadu
Today is a happy day for me. I am awed and inspired even further by the cheerful crowd that received me at the airport and which has come with me to this place. Whatever way I turn, I feel a sense of boundless happiness at coming home, more so now with a mission to be accomplished; a task dear to the hearts of all the people of Adamawa State. This is therefore not an ordinary day for me, and as indeed it is not for the rest of the patriotic citizens of this State – we are here on the march of history.
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Just in: Nigerian doctors call off strike, to resume work Monday
The Nigerian Medical Association [NMA] has suspended its 65- day old strike action. The body’s President, Kayode Obembe, told journalists the association’s delegates resolved to suspend the industrial action in the interest of the ongoing public health issues in the country (Ebola outbreak). He said all Nigerian doctors are expected to report to work on Monday. Mr. Obembe said the delegates also resolved among others that the Federal Government recall all suspended resident doctors without punitive measures. Over 16, 000 resident doctors where suspended by the Federal Ministry of Health following a presidential directive. More details later … In the meantime, you can read the 24 reasons the doctors went on strike here. -
VIDEO: Why I Set Books Ablaze As Kano Governor — Shekarau, Education Minister
In 2007, Ibrahim Shekarau as Governor of Kano State in Northern Nigeria publicly burned Hausa romance novels and materials he described as pornography and immoral to the customs and traditions of Northern Nigeria society.
He banned actors and subjected Hausa authors to what human rights campaigners described as heavy-handed censorship board.
Writers in Kano State had to go to court and Mr. Shekarau was forced to settle out of court and slow down on his censorship.
His local enforcers had a field day moralising for writers, authors and those they describe as ‘immoral’.
Kayode Ogundamisi met Mr. Shekarau, who is now Nigeria’s Education minister, at a London event organised by UK based BEN-TV and sought clarification from him on why as governor, he had to personally enforce and lead the burning of books publicly.
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EBOLA: FG’s ₦1.9 billion intervention fund at risk of diversion – NMA, Falana cry out
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Photo: 20yr-old Covenant University Student Kidnapped, Murdered in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the kidnap and murder of a 20-year-old undergraduate, identified as John Chinedu Okere, who until his death was a 300 level Electrical Engineering student at Covenant University, Otta in Ogun State.
According to reports, Chinedu left his parent’s house in the morning of Wednesday, August 6, 2014, to a Hospital in Yaba, Lagos for medical reasons and never returned. He reportedly left home with about N6000 and that was the last time he was seen alive.
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Libya migrant boat sinks with 170 on board
Dozens of people are thought to have drowned after a boat loaded with migrants sank off the coast of Libya.
At least 170 passengers are reported to have been on board, but so far the coastguard has only rescued 17 people.
Separately, unidentified planes are reported to have bombed militant positions near Tripoli airport, leaving at least 10 people dead.
Libya has been in turmoil with fighting between rival militias who led the 2011 uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi.
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Saturday, August 23, 2014
35 Police Officers Missing after Borno Insurgent Attack.
Nigeria Force Headquarters have confirmed that following the deadly attack by suspected Boko Haram fighters on the Mobile Police Training School, Gwoza, last week, 35 of its officers are still missing. Here is the statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Emmanuel Ojukwu:
Following the attack launched by insurgents on the Gwoza Training camp of the Nigeria Police Mobile Force (PMF), the Inspector-General of Police, Ag. IGP Suleiman Abba, NPM, NPOM, mni since ordered the tightening of security around all police facilities in the country in addition to efforts made to further protect the lives of all people in Nigeria and their properties.
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Obasanjo hails FG, Lagos on Ebola virus containment.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has hailed the efforts by the Federal and Lagos State governments to check the spread of the Ebola virus disease in the country.
Obasanjo said if the Federal Government had given the same prompt attention to rescuing the abducted Chibok girls, the story could have been different now.
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Ferguson Protest: The looters the Media Don't Tell you About
Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that this man can go and say he created peace and harmony.
Supporters Rally for Ferguson Police Officer as Donations Top $300,000
“Our mission is to formally declare that we share the united belief that Officer Wilson’s actions on August 9 were warranted and justified and he has our unwavering support,” activists said in a joint statement that was read aloud in Lindenwood Park.
Scores of people waved placards as passing cars honked horns in support. Online donations via pages on the gofundme website climbed above $300,000 to cover the officer’s legal costs and possible relocation.
“Many of us have received death threats against ourselves and our families… We will not hide. We will no longer live in fear. We ask this question: Can justice ever be attained if one side’s supporters are living in fear of speaking out?”Continue..
Ferguson Police Have “Thankless and Dangerous Job” - Activist
“I’m here support all the officers in all the surrounding counties. They’ve got a thankless job. They face the community, the unknown, not knowing if you’re going to be able to clock out at night, go home and see your family,” said Arnold, an archaeologist from Illinois.
“There are armies on the street – gangs and drug dealers – who have the same philosophy that sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. If the case determines it, and you need to fire, you need to fire. It’s either you or them.”Continue..
Lebanese Missile Lands in Northern Israel
A rocket launched from Lebanon landed in the north of Israel with no reported casualties or damages, the Israeli Army said Saturday.
"The missile launched from Lebanon landed east of [the Israeli town of] Acre," the army's press service said. The attack coincided with the revitalization of the Israeli Army defense and Palestinian military forces in the Gaza Strip. Israel's north has been target of numerous missile attacks from Lebanon in the past several years. Small Palestinian groups claimed responsibility for most of them. The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah is one of the most powerful opponents of the Jewish state, but since the end of the war between the countries in 2006, a ceasefire has been maintained.
Ferguson Protests Undermined by Violence - Police Supporter
“The people who are cheering on Michael Brown disown their own cause by the looting, pillaging, burning of buildings, chaos and rioting – that isn’t the way to go about protesting, you've got to do it peaceful,” said Jeremy Arnold, 28, a security guard from a neighboring state.
“Michael Brown was 6’4” and 300 pounds, he’s already a weapon. When somebody that big is beating on you, he could very well kill you. When they go for your gun, they might as well have a gun. Officer Wilson was just doing his job, it was a totally justified use of force,” he said.Continue..
China Requests that US Stop Surveilling its Territory - Reports
On Saturday, BBC reported that the United States had accused China of reckless mid-air intercept, in the course of which the Chinese Su-27 plane came too close to the US Boeing P-8 Poseidon in a fourth such incident in the past five months. The Pentagon said such a maneuver contradicted international law and was "very dangerous."
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Chad shut down borders with Nigeria
According to Punch, the Chadian government has said it will follow in South Africa’s footsteps and introduce travel restrictions to Nigeria and other countries suffering from the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak.
Prime Minister Kalzeubet Payimi Deubet said the country would close its border with Nigeria as part of efforts to prevent Ebola from entering the country. He said the decision would have an “economic impact” on the region, but it was necessary for “public health needs.”
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NSCDC Chief escapes assassination by police inspector
The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to a press release issued, Friday, 22nd August, 2014 by the spokesperson of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), CSC Emmanuel Okeh, in which he alleged that an unnamed Police Inspector single-handedly “attempted to open fire” on the Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Ade Abolurin and over 200 of his committee members, including representatives of the “Nigerian Army, EFCC, ICPC and office of the Attorney-General of the Federation among others.”Continue...
I'm not running for Governor - Atiku Abubakar
Pics: Naval Pilot who died in the Airforce helicopter crash buried
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Chef cooking lost his life after cobra bites him - 20 minutes after head was cut off
A chef preparing a dish from cobra flesh died when the snake's head bit him - 20 minutes after it was cut off.
Victim Peng Fan had been preparing a special dish made from the Indochinese spitting cobra, a rare delicacy in Asia where eating snakes is commonplace. But when he went to throw the serpent's severed head into the waste bin, it bit him - injecting him with its fast acting venom. Police say Mr Peng died before he could be given life saving anti-venom in hospital.R.I.P: 2face Idibia's Dad passes on after long battle with prostrate cancer
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Ondo State governor, Mimiko, decamps from Labour Party to PDP
Ribadu Officially declares for PDP
US democracy: The Danger That I See Is Chaos - Lyndon LaRouche
The proclaimed goal of the US Foreign Policy is spreading democracy. To quote the US State Department – “the US seeks to promote democracy as a means to achieve security, stability, and prosperity for the entire world”. The statement that looks all the more confusing if we come to recall Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, now Ukraine – these and other democracy-building efforts have somehow resulted in fighting and chaos…
U.S Navy discharges African American sailor for refusing to cut off her natural hair
The military has been under scrutiny for guidelines issued in March that critics believe were discriminatory toward African-American women.
Those regulations “specifically forbid several hairstyles popular for black women who keep their hair natural, including twists, headbands, dreadlocks, or multiple braids that are larger than a quarter-inch.” A former U.S. Army Major, sharply criticized the regulations, noting they targeted “natural styles African American service women have been wearing for years.”
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2105: Kaduna PDP Okays Jonathan, Yero
'We’re expecting Tinubu, El-Rufai, their godfathers to join Jonathan's Team' - Reuben Abati
In this new explosive interview with Tribune, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati says he owes no-one any explanation for dealing with today's administration, adding that his belief in the leadership of Jonathan was what made him choose to serve in his govt.
Abati also stated that a lot of his critics, certainly one of whom even referred to him onetime as a product of same s3x marriage (FFK), have ended up in the GEJ led administration. He says they're now looking forward to famous brands of Oby Ezekwesili, Nasir El Rufai, Dino Melaye, Bola Tinubu and their'Northern godfathers'to also' to see the light and allow the light set them free '.
Female Soldier Beats Bus Conductor to Coma in Lagos over 500 Naria Balance !
A female soldier in the Nigerian army yesterday beat a conductor to coma over change at Iyana Isashi, along Lagos- Badagry expressway in Lagos State. LeadershipNg reports that the soldier, who was in mufti, had boarded the mini- bus at Mile 2 and was going to Agbara area of Ogun State before the incident occurred. An argument which degenerated into a fight began when the soldier who allegedly gave the conductor N500 demanded for her change and the conductor said he had given her the money.
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Caution: DSS Warns of Planned bombing by Girls wearing Catholic sisters apparel
The Department of State Services has raised alarm over fears that some female suicide bombers are intending to carry out bombing attacks in Nigeria while wearing Catholic Reverend Sisters attire.
Based on a media statement signed by the Deputy Director Public Relations of the DSS Marilyn Ogar, some unidentified persons stormed an area tailoring store in Odutola street in the Sabongari area in Kano state on Wednesday August 20th and stole 13 items of Catholic Reverend sisters attire.
The DSS says with the recent upsurge in female suicide bombings, the stealing of the attires demands great concern. The DSS called on all Nigerians to be extra vigilant and observant of anyone wearing such regalia. Get the press statement immediately after the break...
Picture: Police Nabbed armed robbery accomplice after 10 years of evading Arrest
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, has arrested a 33 year man identified as Obina Okoli who is described as a notorious receiver of stolen goods and a key financier and recruiter of hijackers who terrorize major highways in Lagos and other parts of the country. Obinna, who had evaded arrest for 10 years was finally arrested recently at his home in Onitsha, Anambra state. Police reports say Obinna received over 80% of all hijacked or diverted goods in Lagos and other adjoining states from 2003 to 2014. He's also said to have sponsored and maintained over 50 different gangs of armed robbers, including military personnel, who he'd used in perpetuating his criminal activities.
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Woman dies in Ekiti after 4 hospitals rejected her
Ekiti State Government has debunked rumors of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the state.
This came as the federal government lamented the unfortunate death of a lady, who was simply said to have vomited and collapsed in premises of the State Ministry of Health and was rejected in four different private hospitals due to the text messages circulated by some unidentified people suspected to be in the Healthcare sector that tagged her Ebola patient.
At a briefing, Commissioner for Health, Professor Olusola Fasubaa said:
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Ebola: First Consultants Medical Center Where Patrick Sawyer Died Explains How It All Started
Below is a press statement released by the management of the hospital;
In the interest of our patients, staff, the general public the nation at large we state the following:
A 40-years old gentleman came into the hospital with symptoms suggestive of Malaria (fever, headache, extreme weakness) on Sunday night (20th July 2014). He was fully conscious and gave us his clinical history and told us he is a Senior Diplomat from Liberia. Laboratory investigations confirmed malaria whilst other test for HIV, Hepatitis B&C were negative. He was admitted and treatment commenced.
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In the interest of our patients, staff, the general public the nation at large we state the following:
A 40-years old gentleman came into the hospital with symptoms suggestive of Malaria (fever, headache, extreme weakness) on Sunday night (20th July 2014). He was fully conscious and gave us his clinical history and told us he is a Senior Diplomat from Liberia. Laboratory investigations confirmed malaria whilst other test for HIV, Hepatitis B&C were negative. He was admitted and treatment commenced.
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Ebola: Spouses of dead victims test positive
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said there are two new confirmed cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country. Chukwu at a media briefing in Abuja on Thursday morning, said the confirmed cases had had secondary connection with the index case, the Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer.
Chukwu said,
“The two patients are spouses of those that had primary contacts with Sawyer. They are among the secondary contacts that have been under surveillance.
“This now brings to four the total number of Ebola patients currently under treatment at the isolation ward.
“This also means that the total number of cases of EVD cases so far reported in the country to 14.”
Give Us Our Daughters’ Corpses, Chibok Parents Cry out
The parents of the Chibok girls have said that they want the case closed
The mothers and fathers of the over 200 girls who were kidnapped from Chibok in Borno have lost hope that their daughters can be found alive.
They said that they had already performed funeral rites for their daughters in their minds and now only wanted to officially bury their corpses.
The girls were abducted 131 days ago and despite constant reassurances from the government that they would be found, they are still missing.
The parents are now urging the government to at least return their daughters’ bodies so that they can receive honourable burials.
This decision was revealed at the meeting of the #BringBackOurGirls movement in Abuja yesterday, August 22, 2014 in commemoration of the 130th day of the girls’ abduction.
The schoolgirls were kidnapped on April 14, 2014.
The Madness In CBN ₦65 ATM Charges
Few months ago, myself and numerous other writers who were not privileged to grace the sacred meeting where the ‘suspension’ of the then Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam (as at then was) Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was discussed postulated some factors as being the motive behind his unceremonious disengagement. Today I write to say most of what we factored in then may not be absolutely correct.
Beyond our hypothesis lies a stagnant mammoth we have unknowingly shied away from; the bank Mafias. Ever since Mr. Godwin Emefiele assumed leadership of the apex bank his disposition and actions seems to be pointing towards a character squarely playing out a script.Friday, August 22, 2014
Spouses of 2 dead Nigerian Ebola victims test positive - Health Minister
"I'm sorry for the Adadevoh's pain" - Patrick Sawyer's widow says
Decontee Sawyer, the widow of late late Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, the man who brought the deadly Ebola disease to Nigeria, says she regrets the death of Doctor Ameyo Adadevor of First Consultant Hospital, who died of the Ebola virus on Tuesday August 19th after being infected by Sawyer.
In an email to Leadership.ng, Mrs Sawyer, who lives in Minnesota, USA, said she's pained that her late husband caused so many others so much pain both in Liberia and Nigeria.
"I share the pains that the family members of the Nigerian doctor are going through. It is just a pity that Patrick had to cause this damage both in Liberia and Nigeria.”
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