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A young man lies dead in the streets of Liberia, left to rot in view of passers-by and local children. He is just one of many Ebola victims to have been dragged out of their homes and dumped on the country's roads by terrified relatives in a desperate bid to avoid being quarantined.  The deadly virus, which can cause victims to suffer from severe bruising and bleeding from the eyes and mouth, has claimed the lives of nearly 900 people across West Africa so far.  Today, Information Minister, Lewis Brown, said locals had started dragging their loved ones' bodies onto the streets out of fear that the new government regulations would risk their own health.  With less than half of those infected surviving the disease, many Africans regard Ebola isolation wards as death traps, he said.  'They are therefore removing the bodies from their homes and are putting them out in the street,' Mr Brown told Reuters.

A Saudi Arabian man who was being treated for Ebola-like symptoms died today August 6th at a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the country's health ministry said. According to a post on the website of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health, the unidentified 40 year old man was being treated for symptoms of the deadly virus in an isolated ward when he suddenly died after suffering a cardiac arrest. The website stated that the man had recently visited Sierra Leone, one of the countries being ravaged by the deadly Ebola virus and may have contracted the virus there. This will be the first suspected Ebola-related death outside Africa since the outbreak. The World Health Organization said today that 932 people have so far died from the virus.

First CNN,don't even know the difference between Nigeria and Niger Rep, (See it HERE ). Now Sky news don't know the capital of Nigeria

UPDATE: The students have been named as Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger Two British nationals, believed to be students, were killed in Malaysia on Tuesday, the Foreign Office has said, amid reports that the youths were stabbed to death. The two males, aged between 22 and 24, are thought to be exchange medical students from Newcastle University,  according to the New Straits Times. The victims were reportedly involved in an argument in the city of Kuching with three locals in a bar, before they were killed at around 4am. Police have detained three suspects involved in the investigation, while a fourth is still on the run,  the Borneo Post reported.

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris says Ebola situation in Lagos is 'extremely dire.' At a press briefing held in Lagos this afternoon, the Commissioner said the Nigerian nurse who died of the Ebola virus died at exactly 2.06pm yesterday in Lagos. He said Health officials have begun 'secondary contact tracing", that is, tracking down people who came in contact with people who had direct contact with the late Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, the first case of Ebola virus in Lagos. He said as at yesterday August 5th, 27 people who had secondary contacts with the Liberian man have been identified and are now been monitored. He said 6 cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Lagos, 2 of which are in critical condition. He said the infected doctor who was confirmed on Monday August 4th to have contracted the virus is still alive. Continue... Dr Idris appealed to religious bodies to temporarily put on hold all forms of activities that would r...

Disturbing reports have it that the infected Liberian went into a rage when hospital workers informed him of the diagnosis According to FrontPage Africa, the last acts of Patrick Sawyer, the Ebola infected Liberian who died in Lagos, might have resulted in the transfer of the virus to innocent health workers. Mr. Sawyer is said to have had an "indiscipline" encounter with nurses and health workers at the  First Consultants Hospital  in Obalende  where he was being treated. According to the report, Mr. Sawyer was asked if he had come into contact with anyone who had the virus but he answered in the negative. Doctors at the hospital decided to test him anyway and when they told him he had  Ebola , he allegedly went into a rage and urinated on the health workers attending to him.  FrontPage Africa  reports : "...Upon being told he had Ebola, Mr. Sawyer went into a rage, denying and objecting to the opinion of the medical experts. “He was ...

The Boko Haram Chief Butcher, Zakari Mohammed Ardo, has said that he slaughtered “only five people” while operating with his fellow sect members. Ardo, who was on Wednesday paraded before journalists at a police facility in Abuja, said it takes him two minutes to slaughter any human victim marked for the slab. The suspect said he was the leader of a five-man team of butchers. According to him, the four other members pinned the victim down while he cut the throat. The 30-year-old suspect, who spoke to journalists through an interpreter (he spoke in Kanuri), said he joined Boko Haram in 2012 and had been operating with the sect until his arrest on July 12. Ardo was arrested by the police along Darazo-Basrika Road, Bauchi while fleeing from Balmo Forest. He has since been in police custody until news filtered in at the weekend that he had escaped from custody. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, said the police authorities decided to parade the suspect to debu...

There were reports that Boko Haram 'Chief Butcher' Zakari Mohammed (pictured above) who was arrested a while back had escaped from police custody but the Nigerian police force have denied this. They released these photos of Mohammed speaking with pressmen in Abuja today at a police facility in Abuja. 

(CNN) -- On Thursday, Dr. Kent Brantly thought he was going to die. It was the ninth day since the American missionary worker came down sick with Ebola in Liberia. His condition worsening by the minute, Brantly called his wife to say goodbye. Thankfully, the call was premature. Brantly is back on his feet -- literally -- after receiving a last-ditch, highly experimental drug. Another American missionary with Ebola got the same. Brantly's and Nancy Writebol's conditions significantly improved after receiving the medication, sources say. Brantly was able to walk into Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after being evacuated to the United States last week, and Writebol is expected to arrive in Atlanta on Tuesday. On July 22, Brantly woke up feeling feverish. Fearing the worst, Brantly immediately isolated himself. Writebol's symptoms started three days later. A rapid field blood test confirmed the infection in both of them after they had become ill with fever, v...

How can CNN rate us among other countries that are with the heavy case of ebola, or is this a mistake? 

Mary Okoye, the younger sister of Peter, Paul and Jude Okoye is getting married right now in Asaba to her Nollywood actor beau, Emma Emordi. See more photos below. Congrats to them...

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama pose with Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, in the Blue Room during a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit dinner at the White House, Aug. 5

Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, speaking today August 6th at a news conference in Abuja said a Nigerian nurse has died from the Ebola Virus. He said the nurse worked at the Lagos hospital where Liberian Patrick Sawyer was treated. He said she died yesterday August 5th. He also revealed that five medical practitioners who interacted with Sawyer have been confirmed to have contracted the deadly virus "Nigeria has now recorded seven confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease. The first one was the index case, which is the imported case from Liberia of which the victim is now late. Yesterday, 5th August, 2014, the first known Nigerian to die of the EVD was recorded and this was one of the nurses that attended to the Liberian. The other five cases are currently being treated at the Isolation Ward in Lagos.” he said The Minister noted that all Nigerians diagnosed with the disease had primary contact with the late Liberian man. He then announced the appointment of ...

How do you sleep with your own son? This mother did and allowed her partner to watch via webcam. Full story below from UK  Daily Mail A mother has been jailed for having sex with her 12-year-old son - while her partner watched and directed her over a webcam. The woman wore headphones as she abused the boy in her bedroom as her lover viewed online from abroad. The boy told police how he could hear his 39-year-old mother being told what to do as she gave him a 'sex lesson'.  The offence came to light when the woman 'blurted out' that she had abused the older of her two sons while speaking to a domestic abuse charity about her partner. A court heard that her 'highly destructive' partner had so far escaped justice. The woman, who cannot be named to protect her son, was jailed for three years and three months at Bristol Crown Court. Judge Michael Longman told her: 'Your behaviour towards your son was contrary to human instincts and b...

Photo above shows Nigerian women and children currently taking refuge in the Chadian Island of Choua, a desert land that is in no way habitable. The women and children ran to the Chad island after numerous attacks on their village, Kolikolia in Borno State by the Boko Haram sect.  According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ariane Rummery, the Chad Government has signified interest in moving the women and children to a habitable village where they can settle and get minimal comfort.

Ebola as a Biological Weapons Agent As a biological weapons agent, the Ebola virus is feared for its high case-fatality rate. Because of its rarity, the disease may not be diagnosed corrected at the onset of an outbreak. Reports suggested that the Ebola virus was researched and weaponized by the former Soviet Union’s biological weapons program Biopreparat. Dr. Ken Alibek, former the First Deputy Director of Biopreparat, speculated that the Russians had aerosolized the Ebola virus for dissemination as a biological weapon. The Japanese terrorist group Aum Shinrikyo reportedly sent members to Zaire during an outbreak to harvest the virus. There is no doubt that Ebola has been experimented with and that is documented, so it leads to the question of whether someone has perfected the bio-engineering of the Ebola virus and if Guinea was a testing location. http://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2014/03/bio-engineered-ebola-weapons-test-on-guinea-over-70-dead-2684718...

There was gloom at the secretariat of the Nigerian Medical Association,Lagos State chapter when the association’s Chairman, Dr. Tope Ojo, disclosed that the matron of the hospital where the Liberian-born American, Patrick Sawyer, was admitted for treatment was showing symptoms of Ebola virus. The matron is one of the health workers at the Obalende, Lagos hospital who attended to Sawyer before he died of the disease (Ebola) on July 25.. A female medical doctor, who also participated in managing the Liberian- American was confirmed on Monday by the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, to have contracted the deadly virus. Apart from the female medical doctor and the matron, six other people suspected to have been infected with the virus are being quarantined at the IDH, Yaba. Ojo, who added that 30 striking doctors had volunteered to attend to the medical needs of all those with Ebola-related case, stated that the female medical doctor was stable. He said, “We k...