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The Federal government has confirmed two more cases of Ebola virus disease in Lagos. This brings to a total of 9 confirmed cases in Nigeria, seven infected with the disease and two dead.  The federal government also said about 139 persons who have had direct or indirect contact with the confirmed cases are currently under surveillance. Meanwhile President Jonathan has summoned an emergency meeting at the State House Abuja over the virus outbreak in the country.

If you have some money, you go to Paris, France for your holiday. If you're rich, you go to Ibiza, Spain for your holiday but if you're the world's richest man, you rent a $5million-a-week super yacht that cost $330million to build.  Bill Gates, worth $76billion, his wife Melinda and their three children Rory, Jennifer and Phoebe are currently holidaying in a super luxury yacht moored off the coast of Sardinia, Italy. The 436ft yacht called The Serene is owned by Stolichnaya vodka magnate, Yuri Scheffler, and is the world's 9th largest yacht. It has two helicopter landing pads, 12 staterooms, which includes a master suite, one VIP stateroom, seven double cabins and three twin cabins. It has an indoor climbing wall, a dedicated children's playroom, a fully equipped spa and club, three external swimming pools and one indoors, and an underwater viewing room. See photos of the family on board the yacht below After playing tennis in Sardinia, G...

Two INEC officials in Obokun LGA Area of Osun State were in the early hours of Friday arrested by some security men for diverting sensitive election materials. One of the suspects, the Electoral Officer for a local government confessed to the act but refused to name those who sent him. However, he did not deny when confronted that he was sighted inside a vehicle belonging to a PDP stalwart in Obokun, Chief Francis Ade Fadahunsi. DailyPost was informed that his phone call log also showed that he has had constant voice and SMS communication with the PDP chieftain. Report says a vigilante group in Otan-Ile would have lynched the suspects but for the intervention of some police officers who saved him. An INEC official vehicle, with registration number-FG816V01 used in transporting the materials and the suspects are presently been held at the State CID of the Police Command in Oshogbo.

T he riot between Benue farmers and Fulani Herdsmen in Gassol LGA of Taraba state may seem to have ended but that is really not the case according to indigenes of the area, as farmers who returned back to their settlements didn't live to tell the story. After the cut you will find some (graphic) pics and report in details with dates about what is currently going on there...   Article put together by some indigenes of Gassol    07-04-2014: Two Fulani Herdsboys, Mohammadu Adele and Ahmadu Tonga were burning Tiv Farmers houses at Bam village of Dinya Area in Gassol L.G.A. the boys were caught by vigilante men of the village and taken to Nigeria Police Station Dinya Town and later taken to Divisional Police Headqaurters, Gassol Town. These herdsboys were finally taken to Nigeria Police Command Headquarters, Jalingo, Taraba State but were released WITHOUT due punishment after a few days. 07-05-2014: (a)      One Mr. Vandefan Chafa...

My confession and apology Dear nairalanders and everyone who have heard of the ebola Prevention "News", My name is Adesewa, I am coming out clean because what started has a joke has escalated into the unprecedented. How it started Yesterday i was with friend in her hostel, we were talking about this Ebola out break, when one of my friends, Funke (she introduced me to nairaland) brought the idea of Us playing a prank on our friends. The first suggestion was to tell people that aloe very could cure Ebola, but we thought it would sound too ridiculous so we forgot about it. Later that even an idea came to me (i now regret that i did it). I decided to send a BBM broadcast message to my friends, telling them that the Ministry of Health has asked everyone to bathe with salt and warm water and drink some of it. I sent the message 7:08pm yesterday Later this midnight i started getting calls and messages that i should drink salt water and bath with it. All efforts ...

The Suspects The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two men for allegedly diverting goods worth N11.5m and attempting to sell it for N3m. The Police Public Relations Officer for Ogun State, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi , said the suspects ─ Idowu Jimoh,42, and Emeka Godwin,21 ─ agreed to sell the goods for N3m to a policeman who worked undercover in order to catch the suspects red-handed. PUNCH Metro gathered that the goods, said to be Nestle PLC products worth N11m, were loaded on a truck marked, LAGOS, LND 182 XB, which was headed for Abuja. The police said the duo had made plans to divert and sell the goods before a police informant alerted the command. Adejobi explained that a police detective was detailed to work undercover and gain the confidence of the suspects. He said the detective managed to establish contact with Jimoh and Godwin and entered into negotiation with them. He added that the suspects agreed to sell the goods to the policemen for N3m. The PPRO said...

The police have arrested an 18-year-old man, Hounvenou Yavine, a national of Republic of Benin, for slitting the throat of his boss’ mother, Mrs. Mariam Abiola. The incident happened at Ijaiye Low Cost Housing Estate, Pen Cinema, Lagos. PUNCH Metro learnt that Yavine, who had his primary education in Porto Novo, was brought to Lagos in April 2014, by his elder sister. He was, however, taken to work with the Abiolas by his sister’s husband, who was also collecting his monthly salary of N8, 000. Our correspondent learnt that the daily tasks of Hounvenou were to do the house chores and follow his boss to her shop, where he assisted in selling alcoholic drinks. It was learnt that in May, 2014, the residence of the 78-year-old in Ikeja was demolished and she relocated in the interim to stay with her daughter at Pen Cinema. The suspect was said to have been assigned to a new task of tending to the old woman and assisting with the house chores, instead of going to the shop...

Whitenicious boss Dencia just wrote a long, brutal epistle on her instagram calling out NAFDAC boss Dr. Paul Orhii, over recent comments he made saying the agency may arrest Dencia over her Whitenicious product.  “There is this Cameroonian singer that has been going around with a cream. If I get her, she’ll be arrested” Orhii allegedly said at the Nigerian Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Convention which held on July 22nd in Lagos. Orhii also claimed that Dencia's product causes cancer. Dencia replied him then and threatened to sue for defamation. That was a few weeks ago. Don't know what happened again recently but this morning Dencia came out gun blazing. She posted these pics above. See what she wrote below

All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders rolled out yesterday what they described as the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) manual to rig Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State. There are, among others, projected fake results in all the 30 local government areas and a massive plan to arrest APC members. At a press conference in Osogbo, the state capital, APC Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun said the rigging plans were contained in two documents prepared by the PDP in Osun, and which are now in the possession of the APC. The first is a “secret” document marked ‘’HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL’’ that contains a meticulous outline of plans to rig the election, polling unit by polling unit, using pre-programmed ballot papers already designed and thumb printed with vanishing ink in favour of PDP. The second document, entitled ‘’Task Force: Operation (PDP) takeover of Osun’’, lists the actions to be taken at most of the 30 local government areas, including thuggery, snatching of bal...

It emerged yesterday that some of the people who came into Nigeria with Liberian Patrick Sawyer who died in Lagos on July 25, attended a conference in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. Sawyer, a Liberian-American, came into the country on July 20 as a member of the Liberian delegation to an ECOWAS conference in Calabar. But he fell ill aboard an ASKY Airline plane and was hospitalised in Lagos before his death five days later of the Ebola virus. Yesterday, ECOWAS Vice President Dr. Toga Gayewea said the delegation members, who had contact with Sawyer were in Calabar for the conference. This has widened the contact persons, who are to be tracked because members of the delegation who had contact with Sawyer also  had contact with other people at the conference, who are also susceptible to the virus. The ECOWAS Chief spoke yesterday in Abuja at the briefing for the Diplomatic Mission by Health Minister Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu. The briefing was organised by the Mini...

ABUJA (AFP) – The Liberian government complained Thursday that its citizens were being harassed and “stereotyped” in Nigeria following the death in a Lagos hospital of one of its citizens infected with Ebola virus. “The attention of our embassy has been brought to several cases of harassment of Liberians especially in Lagos and other places. This harassment borders on stereotyping and sometimes expression of collective guilt,” Liberian ambassador to Nigeria, Martin George, said. The patient who brought the virus to Lagos on July 20, Liberian finance ministry employee Patrick Sawyer, was placed under quarantine at a private hospital. He died on July 25. “Just because the ‘index case’ came from Liberia, so ‘all Liberians in Nigeria have Ebola’. That is the message and people are being harassed,” said the diplomat. He was speaking during a meeting the Nigerian Health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, held with heads of diplomatic missions in the country on developments on Ebo...

ASABA — MEN of the Delta State Police Command have arrested three persons in Asaba for allegedly robbing two persons they lured from Oyo State to Asaba, Delta State through  facebook  contact. Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Celestina Kalu, who disclosed this, said the three suspects would face the music after preliminary investigations. According to her, “on June 28 at about 9.35 am,  Oleshade Akugbade and Olayinka Alake, both from Ibadan, Oyo State reported at GRA police station, Asaba that they were invited to Asaba by their  facebook  friends one Daniel Fredrick, Nze Emeka and Kingsley Nwali, all residing at Shedrack Estate, Asaba. “On their arrival, they were robbed by the above named persons of a bag containing their clothes, adding that the three suspects have been arrested while the stolen items were recovered from them.” “Investigation is in progress,” she said Fraudsters hack into  Vanguard  reporter’s  e-mail...