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According to reports, armed men yesterday night attacked an Ebola isolation centre in the densely populated Monrovia suburb of Westpoint, Liberia. 29 patients under quarantine reportedly fled the centre. Some reports say the armed men were residents of the area who looted materials used by quarantine patients. A witness of the attack, Rebecca Wesseh said "They broke down the doors and looted the place. The patients all fled” The Head of Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams has confirmed the sad incident. But who goes to steal from sick, quarantined people? Are they mentally alright? More details later..

Oxford's editors have welcomed a new batch of words to their database, validating young people and making life less confusing for old people Oxford Dictionaries, the arm of the Oxford family that focuses on current English, announced on Wednesday that they’ve added the latest batch of words to their ranks. Put into haiku form, reflections of humanity in 2014 could easily look something like this: Hyperconnected hot mess. YOLO? FML. Or this: Side boob. Cray clickbait. Second screen. Live-tweet. Throw shade. ICYMI. Yes, each of those is a new entry in Oxford’s online database that collects modern uses of words. And that’s just a small sample of the many adorbs ( adj. , arousing great delight) additions. For all those who are ready to set their quills to parchment and declare the end of the English language, now that such frivolous terms are getting respect from Oxford, please keep in mind that this is not the Oxford English Dictionary. That arm of the fa...

Minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, says Nano silver, the experimental trial drug imported into the country on Thursday, will not be administered to Ebola patients because it did not meet required standards.  The Lagos state government issued a similar denial earlier.  Addressing journalists at the Federal Nuero Psychiatric hospital at Yaba, Lagos on Saturday, Chukwu said other trial drugs were undergoing evaluation, and they could be used should they be found suitable eventually. He assured the public that the government would do everything possible to effectively contain the disease.  “You will recall that last Thursday, I announced that we were ready to deploy an experimental drug, Nano Silver, if it was cleared by the national health research committee,” he said.  “Although, the drug had since last Thursday been made available to the emergency operation in Lagos, it had not been administered to any patient, because we were awaiting cle...

Like many of us, former VP Atiku Abubakar and House of Reps member Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa do not approve the sack of 16,000 resident doctors by the Federal Govt after the doctors refused to call off their strike. See more tweets below  

*Total of 12 EVD cases, four deaths. five recovering *‎ 189 under surveillance in Lagos, six in Enugu *‎ new 40-bed isolation ward in operation * Nano Silver dropped, other candidate drugs under evaluation The first Nigerian Ebola patient has been discharged from the quarantine unit of the Emergency Operation Centre, EOC, at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos. News of the discharge of the unnamed female doctor, who was one of the primary contacts of the late American-Liberian ‎Patrick Sawyer, was broken, yesterday evening, by Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu . Chukwu, accompanied by Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, and others on the Joint Federal/State EVD response team, to give an update on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria, said the discharged patient had been given a clean bill of health  to go home His words : “The EOC has advised me to announce that the first ‎Nigerian to be confirmed to have Ebola Virus Disease has this ...

Iyanya's manager and MMMG Chief executive Ubi Franklin was involved in a car crash that totaled his car in the early hours of this morning. He shared photos from the accident and explained what happened. See the pics and details below Ubi explains what happened...  I n Every situation Give Thanks. I had a few friends who were celebrating Birthdays last nite and in was invited to party with them at a Club on Victoria Island. I got into the car and was so tired to Drive so one of my friends Drove, on our way back I saw a friend I haven't seen in a while at another club trying to park I stopped to say hi and we entered the second club after a few minutes I decided to leave, right outside the club is a shawarma spot I got some and then I and my friends were headed Home and I was trying to eat my sharwama while my friend drove us home. That's the Last I could remember. I found myself covered with Airbags and I came out of that car that tumbled and a good Samaritan...

Saw this pic on the twitter page of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. They said the newly opened ward is designed to care for Ebola Virus Disease positive patients, isolating them from EVD negative patients. They didn't say where in Nigeria it was opened...