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The Abuja Minister, Bala Mohammed, has designated the General Hospital, Kuje, in Kuje Area Council, as Isolation Centre for possible Ebola-infected persons. The minister also inaugurated a 25-member committee to work out modalities for responding to the threat of Ebola virus and create awareness on the nature and symptoms of the virus. Mr. Mohammed made this known during a high powered stakeholder’s interactive forum in Abuja on Monday. Continue... He said the hospital was chosen because it would be easy for the people of Abuja to access it. He said a ward would be designated in the hospital where the Ebola patients could be quarantined and be on surveillance, among others. He said that adequate infrastructure and equipment would be put in place to manage affected persons and guard against the spread of the virus. “All precautionary measures have been put in place to ensure that the designation of the ward will not endanger the health workers and residents of Kuje,” he said. Howev...

Porn star Christy Mack took to her instagram and twitter pages to reveal how she was badly beaten by her cage fighter ex-boyfriend, Jon Koppenhaver, at her home in Las Vegas last Friday morning. She also posted pics from her horrific injuries. She said Jon, who is running from the police, stabbed her and ruptured her liver...see what she wrote below... 'About 2 a.m. Friday morning, Jon Koppenhaver arrived unannounced to my home in Las Vegas, NV, after he broke up with me in May he moved out of my house and back to San Diego. When he arrived, he found myself and one other fully clothed and unarmed in the house. Without a single word spoken, he began beating my friend; once he was finished, he sent my friend away and turned his attention to me. 'He made me undress and shower in front of him, then dragged me out and beat my face. I have no recollection of how many times I was hit, I just know my injuries that resulted from my beating. My injuries include 18 broken bones a...

Mapp Biopharmaceutical, the makers of Zmapp drug used with positive results on American doctor, Kent Brantly and nurse, Nance Writebol, who got infected with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Liberia, have forwarded the drug to Liberian authorities for treatment of Liberians suffering from the virus. After Nigeria’s request for the drug was turned down, President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made the same request, and it is believed that Liberia’s request was granted as it is one of the countries worst hit by the deadly disease. Even though the drug is still untested and has only been used on monkeys and chimpanzees, Liberia’s Minister of Information, Lewis Brown, said that in the prevailing circumstances, the use of an untested drug is a risk worth taking. “The alternative for not testing this is death, certain death. This is not even the rock and a hard place for us," he said. “We think those that have been infected should be given the chance to have that teste...

Four Indian doctors in Nigeria have said they are being forced to treat Ebola patients against their will. They also charged their employers with taking away their passports to ensure that the doctors couldn’t leave the country. The doctors – Yogesh Chandra, Dinesh Kumar, Hemant Jingar, and Kapil Chouhan – said they were threatened to not leave Primus Hospital in the Nigerian capital Abuja. With the virus spreading across the country, the doctors feared for their lives. According to the  Hindustan Times, Chouhan said.. “We haven’t been provided with any security kits. Our passports have been impounded. When we spoke to the Indian high commission, we were asked to come to the mission. But we were stopped by guards from leaving the hospital,” The CEO of Primus Super Speciality Hospital India Dr ND Khurana, however, appeared to not agree with the demands of the four doctors. He said.. “We are in touch with our Abuja branch. These doctors are afraid of contracting the dr...

Alfa Abdulganiyu, the Islamic Cleric of Iyana Ojere Ogidi, Laluba Area, Ilorin was remanded along with two others, Ahmed Bamidele, 20, of the same address and Lukeman Obalowu Issa, 32, of  Ile Olunle, Oloje Area, Ilorin, for allegedly conspiring to use the baby’s placenta for ritual purposes. The accused persons had appeared before the court on a three-count charge of conspiracy, trespass and criminal charms, contrary to Sections 97, 342 and 217 of the Penal Code Law. Police from ‘G’ Division, Oloje, Ilorin, on July 29, arrested the Islamic Cleric, alleging that they  conspired to exhume the placenta of the baby of one Ismaila Saadu of Ojere Street, Ogidi Area, Ilorin at about 6 a.m. where it was buried at the back of his house. According to the police, during a search for the missing placenta, the Islamic Cleric were arrested inside the cleric’s house drying and burning parts of the placenta with roasted chicken, pepper, red oil and alligator pepper for ritual p...

A transgender couple are preparing to tell their children when they get older that their father actually gave birth to them and the person that they call their mother is in fact their father. Bianca and Nick Bowser are a happily married couple and live in Kentucky with their two young sons. Nick, 27, was born a girl, called Nicole, but for the last seven years has lived as a man. Bianca, 32, who is a drag artist, was born as a boy called Jason, and transitioned to live as a woman 11 years ago.  Bianca said: 'The kids currently have no idea. It's not like strangers ever guess in restaurants or at the shops. 'I don't know when we will start to tell them,  maybe when Kai is around six, but they will need to be old enough to understand. 'It is important they know because it's a big secret to keep from your children and if they found out another way they could hold huge resentment. 'But I don't worry about how they will react. We will not treat it a...

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], PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today. Documents obtained by this newspaper 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. “A family member of an ArcelorMittal Liberia employee died on Tuesday, July 8th, in Monrovia due to a confirmed case of the Ebola virus,” the July 11 edition of Satellite, an internal newsletter of ArcelorMittal Liberia, said....

Theophilus Ilevbare addresses the dangerous tendency of terrorist groups, especially Nigeria’s Boko Haram, to recruit young girls into becoming female suicide bombers and carry out deadly acts. Such innovation in tactics also introduces new challenges for Nigerian security agencies, Mr. Ilevbare stresses in his article entitled Little Girls As Weapons Of Terror?  In his opening remarks, Mr. Ilevbare reminds how a female suicide bomber Wafa Idriss blew herself in the heart of Jerusalem, killing an elderly man and injuring over a hundred persons in January 2002, amid Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her act had prompted Martyrs’ Brigade in Palestine “to conduct a series of successful bombing martyrdom operations against Israel using young females.” It is worth noting that women have been involved in terrorism since the 19th century, but previously, religious groups had avoided involving female bombers. “Since then,” our guest contributor notes, “female martyrs have taken ...

Lol. This Solomon Akiyesi is a comedian. On April 13th 2013 he attempted to marry another woman in Lagos while he had a wife in Port Harcourt. I even sent paparazzi there to cover the disruption that went down when his real wife showed up at the wedding venue (read  here ). But now Solomon claims he wasn't attempting to marry another woman, that it was all blown out of proportion... What happened to the lady you were about to wed in Lagos? 'Let me explain this, I was not going to wed anyone. It is not possible to wed another woman when you have a subsisting marriage. My wife...my ex wife and the woman I was purportedly marrying knew why we did what we did on April 13 2013. But the story became so crafted to look like I was actually going to marry another woman. I took all the shame and shut my mouth. Maybe one day the truth will be revealed. But who would marry a woman in Africa without paying the bride price and other traditional rites? And maybe proper court proces...

The Ebonyi state police command has arrested 28 year old  Sunday  Nwali for allegedly killing a pupil miss Chioma Ezekwele of Kingdom Secondary School in Ikweator Idembia in Ezza South Local Government of Ebonyi state after she refused his sexual advances. Parading the suspect before newsmen at the state police command in Abakaliki the state capital, the state Police Commissioner, Mr Maigari Dikko said Nwali aka Machine in company of his friends named Chukwuma Eloma and  Friday  Ebenyi had gone to the hostel of the school where they accosted late Chioma and her friend Sandra. He demanded sex from Chioma which she refused and in annoyance, he shot her dead. He then asked her friend Sandra to have sex with him and in fear, she agreed. He took her to a nearby bush where he raped her and then fled the scene. Continue... 'Chioma resisted a move by Nwali to have carnal knowledge of her and in annoyance, he shot her dead. He then dragged Sandra...

The wedding which held at Lagos Oriental Hotel on Lekki-Epe expressway, was graced by several members of the Esiri and Osomo families, friends and colleagues of the couple. The grand ball room of the Lagos Oriental Hotel where the wedding held is usually rented for between N1.5m to N3m. According to report, Simi’s engagement ring cost a staggering N1, 302, 000 ($8,000), her Melange white gold wedding band from the luxurious Frost jewelry store in London cost N2, 278,500 ($14,000), while her wedding gown cost 500k. The grooms suit a bespoke Tom Ford suit was said to have cost 650k. Dr Sid’s wedding was well-organized by the bespoke wedding design and planning outfit, The Wedding Company, who also handled musician Darey Art Alade’s wedding to wife Deola and Basketmouth’s wedding to Elsie. They were reportedly paid 6million for their service. The wedding reception venue was said to be decorated by Uche Majekodunmi’s Newton and David for N2million. A family source reveal...

Carrying out the sentence: A witness said none in the crowd stepped forward, and it was left to the mainly foreign-born fighters from the Islamic State to pick up the stones and bludgeon Ms Ahmad to death A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and half buried her in the ground. Then they told residents who had gathered around the scene to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress. None in the crowd stepped forward, said a witness to the event in a northern Syrian city. So the jihadi fighters, mostly foreign extremists, did it themselves, pelting Faddah Ahmad with rocks. Death by stoning: A cleric uses a loudspeaker to read out the sentence handed to Faddah Ahmad Public execution: Hundreds of locals were gathered at the scene of the killing, which took place at 11pm 'Even when she was hit wi...

In an interview with  Tribune , popular dancehall star Daddy Showkey said no armed robbers in Lagos can rob him because they respect him too much. He said he's encountered many of them on the streets, but they immediately let him go and even apologize when they recognize him. See below... You were said to have been attacked by those alleged to be gunmen in your Lagos home shortly after you returned, could you tell us what happened? Yes, they were assassins. They came to my house and killed one of my boys. Thank God I was lucky. Those guys were not armed robbers because in Nigeria today, no armed robbers can come to my house. It can never happen. Why? I grew up in the street of Ajegunle. I have always been a street boy. Armed robbers can never rob me. I have met a lot of them on the streets of Lagos several times and they will tell me Showkey Baba, we didn’t know it was you. Please, no vex, dey go. That respect is always there. Armed robbers respect you? Do you have any conne...