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One of the nurses who had previously had contact with the Liberian Ebola patient Patrick Sawyer, fled her quarantine center in Lagos and returned to her home in Enugu, exposing about 20 people who she came in contact with to the deadly virus. Information Minister Labaran Makuwho disclosed this said the nurse and the  20 others people who she came in contact with are all under surveillance in Enugu.  189 people are now being monitored in Nigeria. Three have died from the disease: Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American businessman who collapsed in Lagos, an attending nurse, and an ECOWAS staffer who worked with Sawyer. Source: Sahara Reporters

Presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was on board the plane, say party members A plane reportedly carrying the Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos has crashed in a residential area of the port city of Santos, in Brazil's Sao Paulo state. The plane was frequently used by Mr Campos who is running for president for the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB). Party members said he was on board at the time of the crash. Firefighters said there were 10 "victims" but did not clarify if the 10 were injured or dead. Friends and colleagues of Mr Campos said they were "very worried" by the fact they had not been able to make contact with Mr Santos since the crash. PSB member Rodrigo Rollemberg said Eduardo Campos had been on board the plane along with his wife Renata, and his son Miguel. According to Mr Rollemberg, two assistants and a film-maker were also travelling with Mr Campos. A police spokeswoman told the AFP news agency that there were...

President Jonathan pictured above using hand sanitizer during on-going meeting on Ebola virus with state governors at the Villa. VP Sambo and Governor Fashola also used the sanitizer. Several state governors, Ministers of Health, Information & FCT are right now in the Villa attending a special meeting with President Jonathan on the Ebola Virus disease. See the pics after the cut...         Fear of Ebola..see how our governors are greeting each other. Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom and Theodore Orji of Abia state greeting each other at the special meeting with President Jonathan on Ebola Virus at the Villa. No more shaking of hands...it's now 'chop knuckle'.

A boy in Edo state has been apprehended after he allegedly had sexual intercourse with a dog. The incident occurred in Iguosa, a community in the Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Benin City, the state capital. The suspect, Osagiator Ighodaro said: “I was going on the street and the dog kept following me and I carried it like a baby and thereafter I took it to an uncompleted building where I did what I did to it. It was there that one man came into the building and arrested me,” A  resident of the area explained how the teenager was caught: “When I saw the young man carrying the dog like a baby, I decided to tell the owner and advised him to go into the uncompleted building. I told him to go round the house while I went through the other side and we saw him having sex with the dog,” The owner of the animal, one Garba Samari told security officials that he had no further need of the dog and that it should be taken along with the suspect.

The deputy Governor of Enugu state,  Sunday  Onyebuchi this morning August 13th slumped before the impeachment panel set up to investigate allegations of gross misconduct and unlawful rearing of chickens in his official residence leveled against him by the State House of Assembly. According to Vanguard, the Deputy governor arrived the panel sitting at about  9am  in company of his wife Mrs Nneka Onyebuchi, his children as well as his legal team. He began his testimony in front of the panel around  9.30am  but three hours later, around 11.35am, he slumped and was immediately rushed out of the premises to the hospital where he is receiving treatment.

Northern Elders recently gave President Jonathan an  ultimatum  to bring back the missing Chibok girls before October..

A bright light has been shone into the darkness of the current Ebola outbreak as Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos has said that some of the patients are getting better. Fashola disclosed this during a series of meetings with religious leaders, chairmen and health workers of the 57 local councils in the state. He said: “We now have 10 persons in isolation that are receiving treatment. Eight of them have been confirmed positive for the Ebola Virus Disease. We are still waiting for the results of the remaining two persons. "All of them are stable, which means that they are not deteriorating. Five of them have really improved. This means they are fighting back. It confirms that Ebola is not an automatic death sentence if we do the right thing at the right time” The number of cases officially on record in Nigeria has now reached 10 after the virus was brought into Lagos by Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer.