No Nigerian Infected With Ebola Virus - Health Ministry

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Nigerians have been advised to be calm and not panic over the reported case of Ebola Virus in Lagos State, with an assurance that no Nigerian is infected with the virus.

Addressing a joint Ministerial Press briefing of the Lagos State Ministry of Health and Federal Ministry of Health on development concerning the disease on Monday, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, affirmed that there had only been one case of imported Ebola resulting in the death of a Liberian diplomat in Lagos.

Photo : Doctor who treated more than 100 Ebola patients dies from the virus

Dr Sheik Umar Khan

The Sierra Leonean doctor who treated more than 100 Ebola patients has also died.

Dr Sheik Umar Khan (pictured above), who was hailed as a national hero for disregarding his own health and helping sick patients, died yesterday July 29th from the disease after being diagnosed with the virus last week.

He contacted the virus despite wearing protective gear when treating patients.

In an interview last month, the 39yr old doctor had expressed fears for his life because of his constant contact with Ebola patients.

"I am afraid for my life. Health workers are prone to the disease because we are the first port of call for somebody who is sickened by the disease.

Even with the full protective clothing you put on, you are at risk" He told Reuters

His death comes days after a senior doctor at Liberia's largest hospital, Samuel Brisbane, died on Saturday at an Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia. 3 nurses working in the same Ebola treatment centre alongside Khan also died from the disease last week. Several other medics have been infected.

Photos : Ebola Victim Patrick Sawyer was on his way home to celebrate daughter's birthday in America

Patrick Sawyer and wife

The Ebola victim (Patrick Sawyer, 40) from Liberia who sparked fears of the 'Ebola' outbreak in Lagos, was actually an American. He was planning to return home to Coon Rapids, Minnesota, to be reunited with hischildren for two of his daughters' birthdays in August.

Patrick and his wife, are originally from Liberia and have family in the US and West Africa.

Back home in Minnesota, his devastated wife, Decontee is reeling from the news that her husband has passed away.

'I have three daughters who will never get to know their father,' Decontee Sawyer said in an interview with the Pioneer Press.

Recalling her husband, Decontee said he was 'larger than life' and that she is stills shocked that someone so strong could have their life ended so suddenly.

Sawyer, who worked for the Liberian Finance Ministry married his wife Decontee in December 2008, in Coon Rapids.

The couple, who both hold US citizenship are originally from Liberia and Decontee arrived in the country with her family in 1991 and Patrick came in the early 2000s.

The couple are part of the large Liberian community in Minnesota, who moved there in the aftermath of the nation's two civil wars in the 1980s and late 1990s.

His job had taken him back to West Africa to promote economic development there and he was last in the United States in September said Decontee.

His long absences away from home had become common and before he boarded the plane to Lagos last week he had been caring for a sister who was ill with what was revealed to be Ebola, although according to Decontee, he and his family did not know that at the time....he didn't know!

Decontee learned he was ill with Ebola on Thursday and then on Friday she was told her husband of six years had passed away from the virus.

Distraught, Decontee said that she had come forward to share her husband's fate so that the public can understand how quickly the virus can spread.

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Graphic pic: Man found dead head down inside a well in Lagos

Early this morning July 29th, a man was found dead head down inside a well (pictured above) with his slippers beside the well in a house at Akanyn street, Shibiri Rd, Ilemba in Ojo, Ajangbadi, Lagos.

Many residents of the house had fetched water from the well and even made use of the water before someone discovered there was a corpse inside it. When he was eventually pulled from the well, he was recognized as someone who lived around..a carpenter whose wife recently left him. Some people claimed to have seen him the previous day, very drunk. No one knew how he fell into the well.

A source told LIB that the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ojo division and Ajangbadi police were contacted and they came to remove the corpse and took it away for fuurther investigation. See the exclusive graphic pic below...

Caught on camera : Disturbing moment mistress is stripped N*aked in public by female gang

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Disturbing footage of a young woman’s vicious beating has gone viral on Chinese micro-blogging website Weibo.

Pictures of the brutal attack, which reportedly occurred outside a karaoke television bar in China's south-eastern city of Yulin, Guangxi province, show the unidentified female being stripped and savagely kicked and had her hair pulled by four woman as stunned witnesses filmed the incident.

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Glasgow 2014: Blessing Okagbare wins women's 100m gold

Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare wins women's 100m gold in a time of 10.85 seconds at Glasgow 2014, with Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kerron Stewart taking silver and bronze respectively.

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I will sell Mikel, Torres or Cech – Mourinho

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Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho has declared that Nigerian midfielder, John Obi Mikel, could be on his way out of the club.

Mikel has been consistently linked with a move away from Chelsea but it seems the arrival of Ivorian marksman, Didier Drogba, has finally sounded the death knell on the time of the Nigerian at the club.

The return of Drogba means Chelsea’s anticipated first-team squad has one too many foreign playersunder Premier League and Champions League rules relating to the home-grown quota.

Clubs can only name 17 foreign players over the age of 21 in their official 25-man squads and Chelsea have 18 overseas stars who are realistically vying for those places.

British newspaper, Telegraph, reports that Mourinho has decided that one of Fernando Torres, Peter Cech or Mikel will be asked to leave the club this summer.

“From the group you are expecting us to have as a squad, I have to send one away because we have one extra foreign player.

“So from all these players, if you think all of them have to stay, you are wrong. One of them has to go,”Mourinho said.

Mikel has made over 200 league appearances since joining Chelsea in 2006.

Video : President Obama announces new sanctions against Russia

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"President Obama announced new sanctions against Russia for its role in continuing to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty.

The US sanctions will target three sectors: energy, finance and arms. Obama vowed that these sanctionswill have “bigger bite” than those that have come before. “Today Russia is once again isolating itself…setting back decades of genuine progress. This is a choice President Putin has made.”

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Asari Dokubo Slams President Jonathan

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On Tuesday, leader of Niger-Delta Peoples Volunteers Force Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari slammed President Jonathan over his comment that there would have been crisis if Gen. Muhammadu Buhari died in the Kaduna blast.

He said that placing one life over 80 other people that died was completely wrong.

Italian Girl Killed When Her Long Hair Caught On The Steering Wheel

A 19-year-old Italian girl died after her long hair got caught in the steering wheel causing the car to career across the road into oncoming traffic.

Caterina Alzetta and her brother Pietro, 21, had to be cut free from the wreckage and she died later in hospital from her injuries. 

The brother and sister were the children of Michelle Alzetta, who is head of the local ambulance rescue emergency service in the northern Italian town of Montereale Valcellina.

He said: 'Tragically her hair got caught in the steering wheel.

'As we understand it when she made a sudden movement of the head it pulled on the steering wheel.'

P.Diddy Says He Is OluwaDiddy...LOL

He must really like Nigeria!...
Let me give him another name in Isoko then....
Take OgheneDiddyweh.

Iheanacho Scores Again For Manchester City

Nigerian teenager Kelechi Iheanacho has scored his second goal for Manchester City in as many matches as the English Premier League champions cruised to a 5-1 triumph over Italy’s AC Milan on Sunday in the US.

Iheanacho, the Most Valuable Player, MVP, at the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup, scored City’s fourth goal against AC Milan when he picked the ball up on the edge of the box, turned and slotted it home. 

Manuel Pellegrini’s men had stormed into an early 2-0 lead thanks to strikes from Stevan Jovetic in the 11th minute and Scott Sinclair in the 14th, the two making the most of a Milan defense that struggled with Manchester City’s pace down the right flank.

* City’s Iheanacho with his trademark celebration

Osun 2014: “We Are Not Buying Votes with Bags of Rice” – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has denied distributing bags of rice in the state in order to get votes in the August 9 governorship election.

A chieftain of the party, Chief Francis Fadahunsi, said he was the one distributing the bags of rice on behalf of the party.

The governorship candidate of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, had while featuring on a programme on Channels Television on Sunday denied, giving rice to anyone in the state blaming the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the allegation, as Fadahunsi rose in his defence saying he resorted to give out bags of rice to alleviate poverty in the state.

However, while speaking with journalists in Osogbo yesterday, Fadahunsi, declared that the gesture was not in any way connected to the forthcoming gubernatorial poll in the state, noting he has been giving out food items, clothing and employment opportunities to indigents people of the state many years before now.

Lawmakers May Commence Impeachment Proceedings Against Okorocha Over Unpaid Salaries

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Imo lawmakers may commence impeachment proceedings against Governor Rochas Okorocha next Thursday, if he fails to clear their outstanding salaries and allowances which he had allegedly withheld since 2011, among other grievances.

Vanguard had earlier reported that the lawmakers are particularly irked that despite spirited attempt to make Okorocha clear the bill, he had failed to do the needful.

A close aide of one of the lawmakers confirmed that before the current threat, the lawmakers had been having series of meetings on how to make Okorocha pay them their salary arrears, adding that the build up was concluded Friday, July 25, 2014.

The lawmakers are said to have vowed not to accept any payment which is not inform of cash, adding that “if the speaker stands in the way, he would be bulldozed along with the governor.”

When anxious journalists contacted the Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to the Governor on Media, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, he dismissed the allegation, saying Okorocha had a good relationship with members of the state assembly.

The End Of PDP Will Be Unpleasant - Tinubu

Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has predicted that the end of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will not be so pleasant.

Punch reports that Sunday Dare, a representative of Tinubu disclosed this on Moday, July 28, on his Facebook page in a note titled, "PDP, Jonathan are building on quicksand".

He alleged that the impeachment of some All Progressive Congress (APC) governors was an attempt to turn Nigeria into a one-party state.

"The sun sets soon for the PDP and the party’s end will be ugly. Under the PDP, Nigeria suffers violence. The PDP takes Nigeria by force.