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A Nigerian man was quarantined today in Hong Kong after he showed Ebola-like symptoms during a trip to the city. The man who arrived Hong Kong from Lagos on Thursday August 7th via Dubai, was isolated in a hospital after severe vomiting and suffering from diarrhoea. He later tested negative for Ebola. In a statement released today, the Southern Chinese city government said the 32 year old man, whose name was not given, had "tested negative for Ebola virus upon preliminary laboratory testing". "In the past one month ... he had no contact history with sick persons or animals and did not visit health-are facilities. He is currently in stable condition." the statement read Two weeks ago, the Hong Kong government said it would quarantine as a precaution all people from Ebola-infected areas who showed any symptom of the disease. 

The 75 year old Spanish priest who was  infected  with the Ebola virus in Liberia is being treated with the new experimental drug, Zmapp, which was used to treat two US missionary doctors infected with the virus. The Spanish government claimed yesterday that the drug was imported from Geneva and doctors have begun to administer it on Fr. Miguel Pajares at Madrid’s La Paz-Carlos III hospital where he is in isolation. The first person to be treated with the serum, Dr. Kent Brantly , saw his condition improve after being given Zmapp. Since his treatment began, Fr. Pajares is said to be in stable condition, no longer has fever, and hasn't any hemorrhaging. Doctors believe that his condition will greatly improve in the coming days. So erm, when is Africa going to get this drug? I can see a conspiracy theory in this Ebola stuff. The Western World is not telling us the truth.

Nigerians on different social media platforms on Saturday asked President Barack Obama to give a vaccine,  ZMapp , being developed in the United States to treat a Nigerian nurse, Justina Ejelonu, reportedly infected with Ebola. On such websites as Facebook and Twitter, the petitioners begged Obama to release the vaccine to Ejelonu and other Africans suffering from the virus. The petitions were made on the White House website. Ejelonu, who is one of those that were infected with the Ebola virus after treating the Liberian victim, Patrick Sawyer, has said she did not have direct contact with Sawyer’s body fluids. The deadly virus, which leads to death in humans within days from infection, is transmitted through sweat, urine, blood, and other fluids from the body. Ejelonu recounted her encounter with Sawyer in a report on a website,  www.southeastnigeria.com . According to the website, she said she had checked his vitals and helped him with food because he was...

As the fear of the spread of Ebola sweeps across Nigeria, Catholic churches in Lagos have suspended the 'sign of peace' where the congregation shake hands during mass. While some Anglican churches have suspended handshakes during communion. The Archbishop of Lagos Adewale Martins released a statement yesterday saying that while the handshakes have been suspended, Catholic priests should continue the traditional hand to mouth method of given Holy Communion for now, but asked the priest to make sure their hands don't touch the tongues of the recipient. He also said Holy Water bowls usually placed at the entrance of churches should be discontinued to contain the spread of the virus. In the same vain, the Primate of the Church Of Nigeria Anglican Communion the Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh today suspended shaking of hands during the exchange of the peace. He also suspended the age long mouth method of administering communion. He said this is aimed at preventing the spread ...

Hundreds of people who escaped a Boko Haram attack on their town in  Nigeria ‘s restive north and fled to a nearby mountain said Saturday they were without any food. “We are in distress. We need help,” said Liman Ngosha, a farmer from the town of Gwoza. “We have been starving for the past four days. We are surviving now on wild fruits,” he told AFP by phone from the Mandara mountain. Suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked the town, some 135 kilometres (80 miles) from the state capital of Maidugur, on Wednesday. The raid left dozens dead and sent others fleeing to the mountain near the Cameroonian border. Survivors said there were no soldiers to defend the town when the gunmen attacked before dawn. “I cannot tell the exact number of people that were killed. Before I fled, over 100 corpses littered the streets of Gworza,” Ngosha said. The palace of the town’s emir, the police headquarters and scores of other buildings were destroyed, residents said. “Dozens of...

18 year old Michael Brown (pictured above) was shot dead yesterday Saturday August 9th by a police officer in Ferguson, Missour i. Michael, who had just graduated high school and hoped to begin college in the fall, was on his way to his grandmother’s house in the city of Ferguson when he was gunned down at about 2:15 p.m in the middle of the street. It's still unclear why the police man opened fire but eye-witnesses said Michael was unarmed and his hands up in the air when he was shot after an argument between Michael and the police man. "The police shot again and once my friend felt that shot, he turned around and put his hands in the air,” said witness Dorian Johnson. “He started to get down and the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots.” Continue...   His grandmother said she was driving through her neighborhood Saturday afternoon when she saw her grandson walking a few blocks from her house. After she arrived home minutes l...

The woman pictured above in grey shirt suspected to be a child kidnapper would have been lynched this morning by residents at the Ijeshatedo area of Lagos but for the timely intervention of others and security operatives. The woman who appears to be mentality imbalanced had allegedly tried to kidnap a baby when she was caught.

Angry students  grounded activities at  Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun,  FUPRE  on August 8th by shutting the school gates following the killing of a fellow student, Jimoh Lateef Babatunde, (pictured above) a 400 level Computer Science student. Jimoh, who was due to graduate in the next four months, was said to be leaving his Boys' hostel in Ugbomro around 8pm on Thursday when he was shot dead by gunmen suspected to armed robbers.  "It is another case of robbery. We were together discussing sports when he excused us to fetch some items outside. Barely 30 minutes later, he was lying in a pool of his blood, his neck shattered by one of the two gunshots" Akpomedaye Philip, Governor of the isolated off-campus  FUPRE  Boys Hostel told Vanguard. Continue... "We have been under ceaseless attacks and molestation from criminals within Ugbomro community. The other day it was another male student who survived a shot t...

48 people, including 40 passengers and 8 crew were killed this morning August 10th when a small passenger plane crashed shortly after take off from Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, the capital of Iran, Iranian state TV reports. The plane, an Antonov An-140, designed for short domestic flights, was traveling from Tehran to the northeastern city of Tabas when it went down in a residential area. At least five children were on board the plane. Five people on the ground were burnt to death. Iran's aviation authority cited engine failure as the cause of the crash. This is the first major crash in Iran since 2011. This year has really been bad for air travel. At least five commercial airline crashes in 6 months and over 800 killed. 

A woman identified as Titilayo Kola was yesterday strangulated to death allegedly by her husband a day after she was delivered of twins,  The Nation  reports Sources revealed that the incident took place at the couple’s apartment at No 23, Temidire Street, Ajowa area of Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. Findings further revealed that the deceased’s husband, one Mr. Kola, popularly known in as Melomelo  (how many, how many), had escaped with the twins even as he was reported to have slept in the same room with his late wife, their new twins and other four children the night before the incident. Continue... Narrating the incident to journalists, the landlady of the deceased, who simply identified herself as Mama Aluko, said, “Titilayo was delivered of a set of twins at midnight on August 7. I was with her to help with the children and other things. Her husband, who has not been living with her for some time now, also came around, while her mum too was also around. ...

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Pregnant Mercy Johnson, who traveled to the US recently where she will stay until she gives birth to her second baby, attended the wedding of Nollywood director/actor Robert Peters to his wife Deborah Smalling in Atlanta. Also in attendance were Daniel Adenimokun and his woman, Stella Damasus plus actor Desmond Elliot who was part of the groomsmen. The weeding took place yesterday Aug. 9th. See more pics below  

For the last two weeks I have been in the field in Osun state campaigning for my friend, brother and kinsman and my party’s candidate in the governorship election, Senator Iyiola Omisore. It has been a gruelling yet wonderful experience and I am very proud to have been part of the team and so deeply involved. It is now 7.00a.m. in the morning and the final results of those elections have just been formally announced by INEC. They are as follows. Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the APC polled 394,684 votes whilst Senator Iyiola Omisore of the PDP polled 292,747 votes. It is clear from the foregoing that Aregbesola has not only won but he has also won convincingly. I hereby congratulate him and his party on their victory. I commend INEC for conducting a free and fair election in which there was no rigging. I commend the security agencies for maintaining law and order and ensuring that no-one was killed or maimed. I salute the courage of my friends and colleagues in the PDP in O...

In this interview, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, bares his mind on the deadly ebola virus. He also speaks on the strike by doctors, passionately appealed to them to call it off His words: “If doctors are not at their posts, we would have a challenge.  And some people have even written that part of the reason  the index case was successfully handled was because doctors were on strike and, if not, the index case may have been taken to a public health facility.  How true that is I don’t know; but as the Minister of Health, I would want the doctors to call off their strike.  In the event that we, God forbid, have more cases, we would need the doctors”. But the focus of this interview is the Ebola problem in the country, what government is doing and the challenges ahead. Excerpts: What  is the status of Nigeria regarding Ebola and its possible spread? You will  recall that I  informed the nation that altogether we had plac...

Prophet TB Joshua is a man of the people. He is also ahead of other pastors in Nigeria to take actions such as this one. God knows who is serving him, but we in  OluFamous.Com  can see who is helping the masses. The popular Nigeria announced in his service that he has sent 4,000 bottles of ‘Anointing Water’ to the people of Sierra Leone and the materials were received by ‘government officials’, to spiritually fortify the country in their fight against the deadly Ebola disease. According to TB Joshua, a private jet was chartered to the tune of $50,000 to convey the spiritual items to the Ebola-stricken nation. An additional $50,000 was also given in humanitarian aid to the victims of the disease, courtesy of the Prophet and his ‘Emmanuel TV Partners’. Before ministering to foreign visitors at his ‘prayer line’ service, Joshua then gave a stern warning to Nigeria about the way the Ebola crisis was being handled... “Ebola is not Nigeria’s challenge,” ...