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A man has died in Uganda's capital after an outbreak of Marburg, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, authorities said on Sunday, adding that a total of 80 people who came into contact with him were quarantined. Marburg starts with a severe headache followed by hemorrhaging and leads to death in 80 percent or more of cases in about nine days. It is from the same family of viruses as Ebola, which has killed thousands in West Africa in recent months. There is no vaccine or specific treatment for the Marburg virus, which is transmitted through bodily fluids such as saliva and blood or by handling infected wild animals such as monkeys. The health ministry said in a statement that the 30-year old radiographer died on Sept. 28 while working at a hospital in Kampala. He had started feeling unwell about 10 days earlier, and his condition kept deteriorating. He complained of headache, abdominal pain, vomiting blood and diarrhea. Samples were taken ...

Atiku Abubakar defends Gen. Buhari on twitter against rumours that he is a religious fundamentalist. See more tweets below Please read from bottom up...

The head of the FBI said in an interview broadcast late Sunday that the U.S. is preparing for an imminent terrorist attack. FBI Director James Comey said the Khorasan Group, an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, may still be working on a plan to hit the United States. “Khorasan was working and may still be working on an effort to attack the United States or our allies, and looking to do it very, very soon,” he said on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” “I can’t sit here and tell you whether their plan is tomorrow or three weeks or three months from now,” he said. “Given our visibility, we know they’re serious people, bent on destruction. And so we have to act as if it’s coming tomorrow.” He said that terrorist networks in Syria are a product of “the metastasis of al Qaeda” with the two major groups, al Nusra and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Daniel Ayala was enraged when he saw the beggar he gives money to driving a brand new Fiat This is the moment a man saw the elderly homeless woman he gives money to every day - driving a new car. Daniel Ayala walked past the Shell garage on his way to work for weeks to hand a few notes to the panhandler sat on the corner. One day, he missed lunch to give her $4. But he was sent in to a foul-mouthed rage on Wednesday when he passed by to see her in a 2013 red Fiat. Their encounter in Oklahoma City - filmed by another duped citizen - shows Ayala screaming at the woman, who claimed to be a 78-year-old widow too poor to afford food. 'This is crazy!' he shouts. 'You are asking for money in the middle of street and you drive a 2013 car? 'Listen, I work hard for my money. I don't appreciate this sh*t. And that's why people like you take advantage of people like me. This is bullsh*t!' Turning around rubbing his face in shock, he then exclaims: ...

not the real image The Director of Catholic Social Communication of Maiduguri Diocese, Rev. Gideon Obasogie has said that two months after the capture of 11 towns in Borno and Adamawa states by Boko Haram, residents could not return to their houses and places of worship, as 185 churches in the diocese were torched and 190, 545 people displaced. Obasogie disclose this, Monday, in a signed press statement tagged “state of captured towns;” and made available to newsmen in Maiduguri, the state capital. According to the statement, the “ransacking and torching” of churches in the captured towns and villages, have already displaced many priests, and are taking refuge in either Yola or Maiduguri metropolisis for the last one or two months. He said the capturing of towns along with the torching of about 185 places of worship is, “sad, heart arching and potentially dangerous to the territorial integrity and common good of Nigeria.” The statement also reads in part: “It is over 30 days now t...

Publisher of Ovation International magazine, Dele Momodu, earlier on today shared the photos on his Instagram page. - See more at: http://www.lailasblog.com/2014/10/ex-gov-orji-uzor-kalu-dele-momodu-visit.html#more

While devastating reports continue to stream out of West Africa, where the deadly virus has overwhelmed already weak public health systems and left thousands of people dead, and anxiety grips the United States over the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the country, one nation serves as an example of hope: Nigeria, which appears to have successfully contained Ebola. As concerns spread over U.S. hospital readiness, there are some lessons to be learned from Nigeria, where officials managed to get ahead of the fast-moving virus after it was brought into Africa's most populous country by an Ebola-infected man who'd flown into Lagos. This week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the outbreak could be coming to an end in Nigeria, with no new Ebola cases since Aug. 31. As in the U.S. case, Ebola arrived in Nigeria by passenger plane. But unlike Thomas Eric Duncan — who arrived in Dallas before he became symptomatic and was therefore not contag...

Bishop Oyedepo, founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide is set to build more universities.  The Bishop announced this recently while celebrating his 6oth birthday, that two more universities belonging to Winners Chapel are currently under construction and will soon be ready for academic activities. He also said they will be leaving the shores of Nigeria in the nearest future to build the 5 th , 6 th  and 7 th universities in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa respectively. It will be recalled that, Bishop Oyedepo presently owns Covenant University and Landmark University which is located in his hometown, Omu-Aran in Kwara State.

                                                 Usman Oloyede during a student protest SaharaReporters has learned that the rector of Yaba College of Technology, Margaret Kudirat Ladipo, reportedly used the military to arrest and detain a former student of the institution, Usman Oloyede. Mr. Oloyede, who was fired from the school, was arrested on Thursday, September 25 after he agreed to meet a soldier who posed as the rector’s assistant. He said the rector had abused her influence with the military to ensure his illegal arrest after claiming falsely that he had threatened her. Mr. Oloyede stated that a soldier, who presented himself as an assistant to the rector, had lured him into a trap by promising to reverse his expulsion from the college. Mr. Oloyede, who was expelled for alleged examination malpractices, said he had been victimized ...

Read the State House press release below... President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will undertake a one-day official visit to Niamey, capital of Niger Republic tomorrow, Tuesday, October 7, 2014 to participate in an Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission. President Jonathan and other participating Heads of State and Government are expected to review ongoing collaboration against terrorism and agree on further joint action to curb terrorism and insurgency within and across their national boundaries. It will be recalled that President Jonathan and the Heads of State and Government of the neighbouring countries of Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin Republic resolved at a meeting in Paris in May this year to intensify joint efforts to curtail terrorism and violent extremism. At the Paris Summit hosted by President Francois Hollande of France in the aftermath of the dastardly abduction of the Chibok College girls,  Preside...

can you imagine, using a bentley  as a police car?

In an interview with City People this week, pastor Yemisi Ashimolowo, wife of pastor Mathew Ashimolowo, founder of Kingsway International Christian Church, spoke about her 33 year old marriage and how a lecturer at UNILAG warned her not to marry the pastor because he had nothing.. "I thank God that I never listened to the UNILAG lecturer who warned me against marrying Pastor Mathew otherwise I would have been probably in a one corner room in Lagos but you see how my life has turned out to be, traveling all over the world to preach and minister. The lecturer never saw any future in Pastor Mathew as a Pastor but the lecturer is late now. I didn't know that marrying Pastor Mathew will end this way even I didn't want to preach when I married him. I just wanted to be a full house wife but he was the one who really discovered me and saw the beauty of God in my life. So he mentored me to what I am today and I never knew that KICC would be a big church that it is today...

9ice welcomed his fourth child a few weeks back with a lady named Sunkanmi Ajala. Speaking for the first time about his new family, 9ice told City People that he has found peace. "It is true that I have a child. It is true that I am with someone named Olasunkanmi Ajala and she is the mother of the child. If you check my instagram page, you will see my daughter Michelle there. Her name is Michelle Abolanle Akande and she is there. So, it is not something you can hide for long. How can you hide a good news like having a child, it is one of the information you can never hide under the sun. It is a joyful thing. "I have my peace of mind. If I drink garri now, I am at peace with myself and the Garri will make me look healthy. If I don't tell that I drank Garri, you wouldn't know except I vomit and you see my vomit. But if I eat salad constantly and I am not happy in my heart, you will notice and you will blame me by saying, oh this guy is rich yet he is ...

Asari Dokubo, who is currently in Mecca to observe the hajj, shared some pics on his Facebook page of him stoning the "devil's wall" in Mina, Saudi Arabia. Below is what he wrote alongside the photos "Stoning every satan in my life....in my well being ...in my match leading to the total liberation and independence of my country from the shackles and satanic grasp of Nigeria....stoning and killing every satanic manipulation,plots,plans and incantations Oh Allah every Satan had been stoned...be they the hegemonic born to rule satans who strive to dispossess every body else of their freedom, liberty,possession and we'll being....Every Boko Haram whether hidden or known....every fabricator of the Chibok scam....every lying Steve Davis. Oh Allah let this Jamaarat be a blessing in the totality of my life. Ameen. See more photos after the cut...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that some of the missing Chibok girls may never return and we'll continue to read about them in years to come. He said this yesterday Oct 5th while speaking at t he Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation   "I believe that some of them will never return.  We will still be hearing about them many years from now, some will  give birth to children of the Boko Haram membe rs, but if they cannot take care of them in the forest, they may release them.” he said.

Lol.  TMZ , comes for Nigerian fraudsters in this exclusive report. Find below... How would you like to be the assistant to a major Hollywood producer?  You can get the job now by going online. You will receive a job offer and an assignment ... that will ultimately screw you out of thousands of dollars, thanks to Nigerian fraudsters. Here's the fraud by the numbers ... -- People who want to break into Hollywood post resumes on various websites.  Some of them get an email from people claiming to be major Hollywood players, looking for an assistant. -- The "players" -- who actually register Gmail accounts using the names of the actual big shots -- offer jobs to the super-eager applicants from all over the country. -- The "players" give the applicants a start date and a first assignment, to get their feet wet. -- The "players" actually send the applicants a check to deposit -- usually for $3,000 -- and then purchase pre-loaded debit cards....