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

Lagos Ebola patients neglected, critically ill - Relatives, colleagues

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Some relatives and concerned colleagues of Ebola patients being treated at the Lagos Isolation center have cried out about what they termed poor people living condition of the victims. 

 

At a media conference held yesterday in Ikoyi, Lagos, some medical practitioners and colleagues of the feminine medical doctor confirmed to have contracted the virus while attending to late Patrick Sawyer, said the living condition of the victims are poor, stating they've been left to fight the illness by themselves as some physicians that are faced with the responsibility of attending in their mind have abandoned them for anxiety about also contracting the deadly virus. Continue...

About £20k cash withdrawn from accounts of 4 passengers on missing Malaysian plane

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According to new reports, approximately £20,916 has been withdrawn from the accounts of four passengers aboard the missing Malaysian plane which disappeared on March 8th while on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A bank in Kuala Lumpur, claim that they noticed the discrepancies in their accounts on July 18 and lodged a complaint to the police. The management of the bank said money from the accounts of three passengers was transferred to the account of a fourth passenger before the money was removed.

Assistant Commissioner to the crime investigation department, Izany Abdul Ghany, confirmed getting a report from the bank.

Why President Jonathan orders sack of striking doctors

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Recently President Goodluck Jonathan approved the sack of doctors across federal hospitals in Nigeria, citing the current challenges facing the health sector as the reason for the action. The doctors under the auspices of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) had embarked on a strike to press home their demand for an improvement in their welfare on July 1 and several attempts to resolve the issue have ended in a stalemate.


The government had earlier accused the doctors of neglecting their oath to protect lives and continue to turn down the request to suspend the strike, particularly during the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus and the ongoing insurgency in some parts of the country. In a letter signed on behalf of the health minister by L. N. Awute, a permanent secretary in the ministry of health, the president ordered that the action should take immediate effect.
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"I don't owe you any explanation' - says Minister who approved Sawyer's trip to Nigeria

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The Liberian Minister who approved late Patrick Sawyer's trip to Nigeria has angrily reacted after he was criticized for letting Sawyer, a staff of the Liberian government, leave Liberia for Nigeria despite Liberian health officials placing him on Ebola danger list.

Deputy Finance Minister Sebastian Muah Omar told a Facebook user who asked him why he made such a decision that he does not owe him any explanation. He also said he wasn't late Sawyer's doctor to stop him from traveling.

One of the minister's followers queried him, saying, 

“As his superior, if a man tells you his sister died from Ebola and he could have beenexposed do you not think it is your duty to ask the hard questions or maybe you could have reported this to the health officials?...

See the minister's reply after the break.

Ebola: Experimental drug developed by Nigerian arrives Nigeria

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An experimental drug developed by a Nigerian in diaspora for the treatment of Ebola is expected to arrive the country today, the Minister for Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said.  The drug, called “Nanosilver”, has been approved for use by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an experimental treatment ethical in the case of the Ebola epidemic. The Federal Govt yesterday approved the use of experimental drugs in the treatment of the deadly virus.

Lagos doctor infected with Ebola as nurse who escaped from quarantine is returned back to Lagos

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A doctor who attended to late Patrick Sawyer at the First Consultant Hospital has been confirmed positive with the Ebola virus. Speaking at a news conference today, the Nigerian Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu said the physician happens to be undergoing treatment at the quarantine centre in Lagos.

Prof Onyebuchi revealed  that a few of the 169 secondary contacts of Sawyer were no further under surveillance and have been released, having completed the 21 days of incubation period.  The Minister also said the nurse who'd escaped the quarantine center in Lagos and traveled to Enugu state has been returned back once again to Lagos with her husband in a special traveling ambulance.

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Boko Haram abducts 100 young men in Borno as military intercepts mass movement of 57 youths

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Boko Haram have abducted 100 teenage boys in Doron Baga, a village in Borno State during an attack on the village on Sunday August 10th. In accordance with a resident of the village, Halima Alhaji Adamu who spoke with journalists, she said the sect men killed at least 10 people and abducted 100 young children and men during the attack...

"The attack was on Sunday, in my family they killed six people, I don’t know about the other families but the Hadaijawa community which I belong also had 100 of the men abducted by the insurgents.” she said.

Halima also revealed that she lost her husband during the attack. ...

Graphic image: Headless human body of a person found in Mile 12, Lagos

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 Residents of Agiliti, Mile 12 Lagos, woke up today to a gruesome sight. The headless body of a son was found on the street. On closer inspection, it was unearthed that his manhood had been cut off. People suspect it was ritual murder but nobody knows for certain what happened. The murdered man has since been identified by those who claim to know him. See the graphic pix after the jump.

FG orders indefinite suspension of Resident Doctors in Teaching Hospitals

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 Resident Doctors in Nigerian Teaching Hospitals have now been suspended by the Federal Government starting yesterday August 13th. According to a letter delivered by the Permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health, the indefinite suspension is supposed to greatly help the Federal Govt'appraise the challenges facing the sector '. 

Army battle to retake gwoza as Boko Haram kills 20, kidnap women

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Nigerian troops have massed around Gwoza to retake the town from members of the Islamist group, Boko Haram, military sources have disclosed. The battle for control of Gwoza rages as reports emerged that Boko Haram insurgents yesterday killed 20 people in Doro Baga in Kukawa local government area of Borno State. The residents of the embattled village also disclosed that the militants kidnapped several women in an early morning raid. Continue...

Ebola: Singapore isolates Nigerian Woman.

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Authorities in Singapore sent a woman from Nigeria into a hospital isolation unit today on suspicion that she might have Ebola, the Straits Times reported on Thursday. The woman, in her 50s, was believed to have flown into Singapore recently and arrived at a hospital emergency department with a fever, the newspaper said. She was immediately isolated and transferred by ambulance to a communicable diseases centre, the newspaper said.

Ebola: FG Postpones Resumption of Schools until further notice.

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To prevent further  outbreak of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD), the Federal Government has reportedly approved the extension of the present holiday of primary and secondary schools around the country until further notice.

NewTelegraph reports that the development, government stated, is part of measures to curb the spread of Ebola. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Students Matters, Comrade Jude Imagwe, who disclosed the postponement of school resumption in Abuja yesterday did not state 

Over 22,400 Sign Petition Demanding UN to Recognize Luhansk, Donetsk People’s Republics

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More than 22,400 people have signed an online petition calling on the United Nations to recognize independence of people’s republics of Luhansk and Donetsk.
“We should try to help the people gain independence by our votes, rather than just sitting on the couch in front of a TV-set,” said Vladimir, a Russian-speaking person living in Germany, who started the petition with Avaaz Community Petitions a month ago.
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Medvedev's Twitter Account Hacked, Resignation Tweet False – Press Service

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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s Twitter account was hacked and the tweet about his resignation is untrue, Medvedev’s press service told RIA Novosti.

“[Medvedev’s] Twitter was hacked, the tweet on his resignation is false. We’re working on the problem,” the press service said.
“I’m resigning,” appeared on Medvedev’s microblog Thursday morning.
Medvedev’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said it was most likely a hacker attack.
“I don’t have any information, but I’m pretty sure that this was a hacker,” Peskov said.

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The Russian appeal to Germany

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My name is Egor Prosvirnin, I am the chief editor of the Russian site sputnikipogrom.com which advocates European values. I’ve heard that one of the aspects of life that Europeans, and Germans especially, cherish is history. If we were to recall recent history, we would remember that a vast army of 300,000 Soviet troops along with 5,000 tanks, 1,500 aircraft and 10,000 artillery pieces (including tactical nuclear weapons) simply left the then just-united Germany without firing a shot. 

It was an operation unprecedented in scope and brevity, when the entire Soviet army withdrew literally to open fields. Tens of thousands of Soviet officers, obeying the orders of the supreme command, went from their warm barracks to live in moldy tents set up in the middle of sodden snow-covered fields. In many instances along with their families.

The Nigerian soldiers’ wives mutiny

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November and December of 1929 saw thousands of women stampeding the Native Administration outposts in Calabar and Owerri to protest both the imposition of taxes on women and the appointment of warrant chiefs by the colonial administration. The protest, to be later described as the Aba Women’s War, saw employment of both guerrilla strategies and traditional acts such as “sitting on a man” – the practice of ridiculing men through song and dance performances carried out all night long.
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