ALL-OUT WAR AGAINST EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE.

THE dastardly “importation” of the dreaded Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) into Nigeria by the late Patrick Sawyer almost a month ago, has brought out the best in the government and people of Nigeria, surprisingly.

As soon as Sawyer was identified as a possible carrier of the plague, the authorities took proactive steps to establish quarantine facilities.

They ensured that all those who had made primary and secondary contact with the Liberian were identified and handled professionally.

It has helped to limit the scope of the infection within the populace, though latest reports have it that the number of people infected has skyrocketed to 198 as at press time.

NUHU RIBADU DEFENDS HIS SURPRISE DEFECTION FROM APC TO PDP, INSISTS THAT BOTH PARTIES ARE THE SAME.

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Sunday justified his defection from the opposion All Progressives Congress to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, saying the APC was not better than the PDP.

Ribadu, who was the 2011 presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, forerunner of the APC, said there was no difference between the PDP and APC, in terms of the character of the people who constituted both parties.

The ex-EFFC chairman, who spoke through his spokesman, Mr. Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, said this while fielding questions from one of our correspondents in Abuja.

POLICE ARREST HEARTLESS ROBBERS WHO RAPED A NURSING MOTHER IN FRONT OF HER HUSBAND.

Robbers do not deserve mercy especially those who kill and rape. Eight robbers raped a nursing mother in Kogi and claimed they were high at that time. Four of them are now in Police custody and we hope they pay severely for their crimes. 

"Sun news" reports that tears flowed freely as people beheld the pathetic sight of a middle-aged nursing mother whose three-month old baby was thrown into the bush while an eight-man gang of devilish souls raped her to a point of unconsciousness right in the presence of her husband.

The woman (names with held) who had bruises all over her body especially in the waist region could barely stand unaided when she was sighted at the headquarters of the Kogi State Police Command.

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#EBOLA: HOW LIBERIAN GOVERNMENT CLEARED THE AGENT OF DEATH (PATRICK SAWYER) TO TRAVEL TO NIGERIA.

The Liberian Government was aware that Patrick Sawyer, its citizen who brought the Ebola virus into Nigeria, had possibly contracted the virus from his late sister, yet cleared him to travel to Nigeria for a conference organised by the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS].

Documents obtained by Premium Times showed that Mr. Sawyer’s employers, ArcelorMittal, an iron mining company, suspended him from work and isolated him after it became aware that he had contact with his sister who died of the virus on July 8.

The company also issued an internal memo to staff of the company informing them that Mr. Sawyer had been referred to the Liberian Health ministry for testing and close observation.

UPDATE ON EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE

Nigeria has received an experimental drug from unnamed Nigerian scientist to treat Ebola virus, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, said in Abuja, on Thursday. Chukwu, who gave the cheering news at a news conference, gave the name of the drug as “Nanosilver.”

According to Chukwu, “the only experimental drug we have now is Nanosilver, provided by a Nigerian scientist; details of the drug will be disclosed later to the media.”

Chukwu said the suspected cases reported in Abia, Anambra, and Abuja were investigated and proved negative.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SACKS 16,000 RESIDENT DOCTORS NATIONWIDE.

The Federal Government has sacked over 16,000 resident doctors in the country. In a press release by the Deputy Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Health, Alhaji Isiaka Yusuf, the Federal Government said it had to do so after exploring all avenues to end the strike, which it said had compounded the health crisis in the country.

According to Punch, It would be recalled that the Nigeria Medical Association had directed its members natiuonwide to go on strike on July 1. The National Association of Resident Doctors, an affiliate of the NMA, has put its numerical strength at about 16,000.

“The situation has been compounded by the recent importation of the Ebola Virus Disease into Nigeria on July 20, 2014. Following the Presidential declaration of a National Public Health Emergency on Ebola Disease, which has united the entire country in the efforts to contain the disease, it is quite regrettable that the people who should take leadership role in the fight against the Ebola disease are now the most unsupportive,’” the statement said.

BUS CONDUCTOR PLEADS GUILTY TO RAPING RAPING 6-YR-OLD GIRL, BLAMES ALCOHOL INTOXICATION.

A bus conductor, John Akachi, has told an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court that he raped a six-year-old girl.

The police had told the court on Friday that the victim, who was his neighbour’s daughter, sustained injuries in the course of the intercourse. The defendant was said to have claimed he was drunk and didn’t know when he slept with the girl. The incident happened at Idimu area of Lagos State. The 27-year-old Abia State indigene was arraigned on one count of rape.

The charge reads, “That you, John Akachi, on July 12, 2014, at about 5.50pm, at Adesanya Street, Pipeline Idimu, Lagos in the Lagos Magisterial District, did have unlawful sexual intercourse with one (name withheld) aged six years old, which caused her harm and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.”

POLICE ARRAIGNS TEACHER WHO RAPED A 10-YR PUPIL IN LAGOS. #SayNoToRAPE.

RAPE!!! RAPE!!! RAPE!!!. There should be a way out of this madness. Obviously, many MALES seem unable to keep resist the urge of forceful intercourse. A shameless father of two, Adeniran Adebayo, who was also the health teacher at a primary school in lagos has been docked for raping a 10-yr old student. 

Punch reports that a 10-year-old primary four pupil has told the police how her teacher, Adeniran Adebayo, allegedly took advantage of her and defiled her inside the school toilet. The victim said her health teacher threatened to flog her if she made a noise while he had sex with her in the toilet. She said one of the female teachers in the school, however, heard her cry and barged into the toilet, forcing Adebayo, a father of two, to stop and hurriedly dress up.

ROBIN WILLIAMS DIES OF SUSPECTED SUICIDE.

The Oscar-winning actor and stand-up comedian Robin Williams, whose range extended from manic mimicry to understated character portrayals, was found dead in his California home on Monday.

In a statement, the local sheriff’s office said that it was treating the death of the 63-year-old star as a suspected suicide.

His wife, Susan Schneider, confirmed the news in a statement released through the actor’s publicist. “This morning I lost my husband and best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken,” she said.

(PICTURE) KNIFE FALLS FROM SKY AND LANDS IN MAN'S HEAD - HE SURVIVED THE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.

A Chinese man has suffered a lucky escape after a knife fell from the sky and landed in the top of his head.

Xiao Yunzhi, 57, was out for a walk in his hometown of Guangyuan, Sichaun Province, before a five-inch kitchen knife fell from the top of a high-rise apartment block.

Even more unbelievably, Mr Xiao did not immediately notice the impact, despite reporting that his head started to feel heavy.

10 CASES OF EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE CONFIRMED IN LAGOS, NIGERIA.

Nigeria on Monday confirmed a new case of Ebola in the financial capital Lagos, bringing the total number of people in the country with the virus to 10.

Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the latest confirmed case was a female nurse who came into contact with a Liberian-American man, Patrick Sawyer, who died of Ebola in a Lagos hospital on July 25.

In addition to Sawyer, another nurse who had contact with him died last week, while seven other people have been confirmed to have the virus in the city, he added.

HOW GOVERNOR AREGBESOLA SECURED A SECOND TERM IN OFFICE.

It is no longer news that Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) comfortably beat Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to retain his seat for another 48 months in power in weekend’s Osun State polls. What perhaps is news is the avalanche of reasons for Aregbesola’s convincing victory.

The reasons include: Aregbesola’s modest performance in the last four years; mismanagement of crisis in the PDP and failure to pacify aggrieved leaders like former governors Isiaka Adeleke and Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who had to defect to the APC; failure of the PDP to make capital out of the religious card occasioned by Aregbesola’s re-classification of schools; Aregbesola’s deft grassroots support; Omisore’s Bola Ige’s baggage; the governor’s work in Osogbo; and APC’s loss in Ekiti, which served as a wake-up call leading the leaders to apply useful lessons learnt from the Ekiti episode where PDP’s Ayo Fayose beat APC’s Governor Kayode Fayemi.

FORMER VICE-CHANCELLOR OF UNILAG "PROF ADE AJAYI" DIES AT 85.

Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos Prof. Ade Ajayi is dead at a ripe age of 85.

Punch reports that the renowned historian has passed on. Although his family had not released an official statement as of 8 pm press time on Sunday, a reliable source said he died at the University College Hospital, Ibadan on Saturday.

Among scholars of his age and beyond, Ajayi was particularly respected for the thoroughness of his researches and the fact that he gave character to the study of African history.

(PICTURES) CELEBRATION OF LOVE - THE INTRODUCTION CEREMONY BETWEEN "GBEMISOLA FASOOTO" AND "AYODELE WILLIAMS".

The introduction ceremony between "Gbemisola Fasooto" and her best friend "Ayodele Williams" took place in Lagos on Saturday, 9th August 2014.

We wish the love birds a happy union. 

See more pictures of family and friends who celebrated with them after after the cut.........

GOV. AREGBESOLA WINS OSUN STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION!!!!!

Incumbent governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola is on the verge of being formally declared as the winner of the governorship election in Osun that held on Saturday August 8 2014.

Electoral results officially released by INEC show that that Mr. Aregbesola is leading his closest rival, Iyiola Omisore of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) by at least more than 100,000 votes.

Saharareporters had earlier disclosed that Mr. Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party was comfortably ahead based our monitoring of results from polling stations across Osun state.

INEC figures in 30 local government areas show that Aregbesola has scored the highest votes in the election against Omisore.

BRITISH POLICE OFFER £10,000 REWARD FOR INFORMATION OVER THE KILLING OF 19-YR-OLD TV ACTOR CARL BEATSON ASIEDU.

LATE CARL ASIEDU

The murder case of 19-yr old Carl Beatson Asiedu in the UK is unresolved after five years as the main suspect Jeffrey Okafor is still at large. The British Police have stepped up their willingness ensure justice by offering £10,000 for information which could lead to the arrest of Jeffrey Okafor, believed to have fled to Nigeria few days after the murder.

See picture of Jerry and more information after the cut.

NAIJA RAPPER VECTOR (@VECTORTHAVIPER) WRITES AN OPEN APOLOGY TO HIS FORMER RECORD LABEL YSG.

Naija Rapper, Olanrewaju Ogunmefun popularly known as "Vector Tha Viper" has written an open letter to his former record label YSG after a year of intense legal battle between both parties because he walked away from the label. In fact, they have settled out of court, hence, Vector is now a free man to simply put.

See the letter after the cut.....

PRESIDENCY APPOINTS SULEIMAN ABBA AS ACTING INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday named an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, as the acting Inspector-General of Police.

Abba, who until his appointment was the AIG in charge of Zone 7, takes over from Muhammed Abubakar, who proceeded on statutory retirement on Thursday.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, who confirmed the change of guard in the police top echelons in a statement, said Abba’s appointment would take effect from Friday (today).

FINAL BURIAL DATES ANNOUNCED FOR LATE PROF. DORA AKUNYILI.

The family of late Prof. Dora Akunyili have announced the burial arrangement for the late Minister and Nafdac Boss. Read more below......

The family of former Minister of Information and Communications, late Prof. (Mrs.) Dora Nkem Akunyili, has released a week-long programme of activities for her funeral, culminating in her burial on Thursday, August 28, 2014.

The programme, released today in Enugu by Prof. Akunyili’s husband, Dr. Chike Akunyili, starts with a Christian Wake-Keep at No. 2A Bishop Onyeabor St., G.R.A. Enugu, to hold from 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 22. A Night of Tributes is to hold at International Conference Centre Abuja from 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 25, while a Mass would be held for her at Pro-Cathedral Catholic Church, Abuja, by 10:00 a.m. the next day, August 26.