Bangladesh ferry capsizes with hundreds aboard.

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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized Monday in central Bangladesh, a government official said. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority Chairman Samsuddoha Khondaker said M.V. Pinak was crossing the River Padma in Munshiganj district when it capsized. Local media reports said that up to 250 passengers were on board when the accident happened but this could not be independently confirmed.

R.I.P: Fast rising singer Bbee dies at 30

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Promising musical artist Blessing Eloho popularly known as Bbee has died. The singer died on Sunday July 27th after a brief illness just days after she returned from a trip to the US. The Delta state born, Lagos State University graduate was only 30 years old. Too sad! May her soul rest in peace, Amen. ...
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Comedian Dan D’Humorous contesting for Rivers State House of Assembly

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Comedian Dan D'Humorous has announced his intentions to contest for the Rivers State House of Assembly come 2015. He shared his poster on his instagram page and said he's contesting under Ikwerre Constituency. A lot of entertainers seem to be going into politics these days...ogini na fio?

CDC: EBOLA Capable of Airborne Transmission!! Ebola Patented By the USA

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Thought it couldn’t get any worse? Think again, the good old scientists of the USA, know exactly what they are doing with this Ebola virus. They are releasing it into the public. The US patents the Ebola Virus! The location where the Ebola victim is in Georgia is exactly where they patented the Ebola Virus. It has become clear that this Ebola virus is going to be a false flag released among the population of the United States. This is the deadliest streak Ebola has been on ever, and now it has gone airborne! Please watch the video for more information.

Madwoman Stones her Baby to Death in Abia State

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A young men­tally challenged woman caused a stir in Aba, Abia State at the week­end when she gave birth to a set of female twins on a heap of refuse and stoned one to death be­fore the police were in­vited. DailySun reports an unknown person impreg­nated the woman, in her mid 20s and whose name could not be ascertained as at press time, late last year. Sources said that in the wee hours of Saturday, she gave birth to two girls without any as­sistance on top of a heap of garbage close to an AGIP filling station at Alaoji, along the Ikot Ekpene Road, near Aba.
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FG Advices Nigerian Students in Eastern Ukraine to Vacate

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The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has implored Nigerian students in eastern Ukraine to vacate the area due to fierce violence and unrest in the region.  Ambassador Abdulaziz Dankano, Under-Secretary in charge of Economy and Consular in the ministry, gave the advice in an interview with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja.

PhotoNews: Palestinian Genocide - Graphic Photos Of War Crimes committed by Israel against Palestine.

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A medic stands among bodies yesterday which were placed hastily in a walk-in vegetable fridge in Rafah, Gaza.

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Nigerian Doctor Who Attended To Liberian Man is infected with Ebola Virus In Lagos

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Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has just confirmed that one of the doctors who attended to Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian, who recently died of Ebola in Nigeria, is now sick with the disease.

Chukwu said two other people placed under quarantine were showing signs of the disease, although it is too early to say if their symptoms relates to Ebola. Sawyer was Nigeria’s first case of Ebola death two weeks ago, and since his demise there have been widespread fears  that some of the more than 70 people he had contact with also develop the virus.

IMPEACHMENT: Gov. Almakura Is Too Soft For My Liking – Kwankwaso

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Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has blamed the Nasarawa governor, Umaru Muktar Almakura political policies, saying it is responsible for the governors predicament.


Kwankwaso said: “you cannot be a gentleman and hope to survive as governor under the present dispensation”.
He added, “A gentleman cannot be a good governor, you need to have so many faces because the game is rough and can’t accommodate a gentleman”.

Only collective efforts can rescue Nigeria –Fashola

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The Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has said only collective efforts of Nigerians can rescue the country from its many woes.  The governor said this on Friday at a grassroots empowerment programme organised by council chairmen in the state, under the aegis of Conference 57.

He said the failure of Nigeria to achieve socio-economic and political growth, after over a decade of self-governance, should give a cause for concern.

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2015: Don’t campaign for me yet, says Tambuwal

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, said on Sunday that it was against the law of the land for anybody to start campaigning for elective positions in the 2015 poll when the Independent National Electoral Commission had yet to give politicians the nod to do so.

Why Ebola remains incurable –UK doc

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Pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to invest in vaccines and research to cure the deadly Ebola disease because it is only killing Africans, a leading UK doctor has claimed.

The President of the UK Faculty of Public Health, Prof. John Ashton, has claimed no cure for the disease has been discovered because it so far has only affected powerless minorities.

He likened the response to that of Aids, for which treatments were developed only when it started affecting Western countries.

Doctors disagree over strike

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About two months after calling out its members for a nationwide strike, the Nigerian Medical Association appears to be divided on whether to suspend the action or not.

A press conference that was scheduled to take place on Sunday was put off for undisclosed reasons.

The Secretary-General of the association just came and apologised to journalists, promising that the association would call them soon.
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Ikorodu monarch dies at 83

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The Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Salaudeen Oyefusi, is dead. He was said to have died on Saturday.

A statement by the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Ademorin Kuye, said Oyefusi, who was also the Vice Chairman of the Lagos State Council of Obas and Chiefs, died at the age of 83.

The statement, “With gratitude to God for a life well spent and in meritorious service to his people, Lagos State Government regrets to announce the passing on to glory of the Ayangburen of Ikorodu and Vice Chairman of the Lagos State Council of Obas and Chiefs, Oba Salaudeen Afolabi Oyefusi, OON, which sad event occurred 2nd August, 2014. He was aged 83. Funeral arrangement will be announced later.”

Israel Air Strike On UN School ‘Criminal’ – UN

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The UN has expressed outrage after another deadly strike on one of its schools as Israel begins pulling some troops from Gaza in a widely-acknowledged step towards unilateral withdrawal.

The strike killed 10 people at a school in the southern city of Rafah on Sunday where about 3000 Palestinians made homeless by the violence had been sheltering. It was the third such incident in 10 days.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the shelling, calling it “a moral outrage and a criminal act”.

“This madness must stop,” he said.
The strike came as Palestinian factions gathered for truce talks with Egypt in Cairo and world powers voiced increasingly urgent calls for the laying down of weapons.

Southwest China Earthquake Kills 367, 1,900 Injured - Reports

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More than 367 people are dead and almost 2000 have been injured in a strong earthquake which hit China’s mountainous southwest, bringing homes crashing to the ground and sparking a massive relief operation.

The quake, which struck in the Zhaotong prefecture of provincial Yunnan on Sunday, toppled buildings and left rescue teams and residents to pull survivors from beneath rubble, images on social media show.

“At least 367 people have been killed and 1881 people were injured,” the official news agency Xinhua reported early on Monday, citing rescuers and raising a previous toll given minutes earlier of 357.

2 Drown, 900 Evacuated In Bulgaria Floods

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Two people have drowned and 900 have been evacuated from homes after floods caused by torrential rain hit northwestern Bulgaria.

More than 800 residents of the town of Mizia were evacuated overnight and during the day on Sunday after the swollen river Skut submerged large parts of the town under up to three metres of water, the interior ministry said.

Daniel suffering from overdose of political prostitution -Kashamu

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The Chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West, Mr. Buruji Kashamu, has described the former Governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, as ” someone suffering from an overdose of political prostitution.”

He spoke against the backdrop of a statement credited to Daniel on Sunday in some national newspapers where the ex-governor described Kashamu, a chief of the PDP in Ogun State, as “suffering from political inexperience and over-confidence”.

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Northern youths back Atiku for 2015 Presidency

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Northern youths on Sunday in Kaduna asked former Head of State and Chief of the All Progressive Congress, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), to shelve his ambition of contesting the 2015 presidential election. Instead, they asked Buhari to support his kinsman and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the flag bearer of the main opposition party in 2015.

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5 die in Sokoto road accident

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Five persons from the same family have been reportedly killed in a road accident that occurred on Saturday on Shagari-Tureta road in Sokoto State.

The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the deceased were members of the family of the District Head of Dogon Daji in Tambuwal local government area, Alhaji Shehu Umar, .

The deceased included the son of the district head, his daughter, two grand children and his 74-year-old younger sister.

They were said to be travelling from Dogon Daji to Abuja on a condolence ‎visit when their vehicle collided with a petroleum tanker.

The bereaved the District Head, described the accident as “an act of God”.

The Spokesman for the state Police Command, DSP Al-mustapha Sani, confirmed the accident in an interview with NAN.