US President Barack Obama said it was too soon to send experimental drugs for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, which has been hardest hit by the deadly outbreak. Obama on Wednesday said affected countries should instead focus on building a “strong public infrastructure,” adding: “I think we have to let the science guide us. And I don’t think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful.” The decision to use an experimental drug to treat two Americans infected with Ebola, while nearly 1,000 Africans have already died from the deadly epidemic, has sparked controversy. Asked…
Author: Wale Adebayo
The whereabouts of the Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji Mohammed Idrissa Timta, two days after the attack and capture of his town still remain unknown. According to SR sources, nobody knows about the present location of the newly installed Emir of Gwoza, Mohammed Timta. The Senator representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Mohammed Ali Ndume, who is also an indigene of Gwoza, told journalists in a telephone interview on Thursday that he has tried to speak with the paramount ruler for two days now without success. He said the last he heard about the ruler was that during the attack…
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said on Thursday that the Federal Government was awaiting response from America on drug request. Chukwu spoke to journalists on the sidelines of the inauguration of the Defence Identification Centre (DNA) at the Magadishu Cantonment in Abuja He said that the U.S. has not yet responded to Nigeria’s request for supply of the experimental drug used for the treatment of the deadly Ebola virus. “We have not received any response from them (America), we have made the request; we believe they will respond to us. “But we know that this is still an…
Remember I told you all days ago that D’banj and most of the stars he featured in his ‘Cocoa na Chocolate’ song are currently in the USA – Was.hington DC to be exact. The ONE Campaign ambassador D’Banj as well as other African artistes who featured in the song “Cocoa Na Chocolate” help raise awareness about agriculture in Africa. D’banj is seen here styled in a ‘Cream Jalamia/black cap/black shades’ accessorized with his chain and black wristwatch. He is in the White house for the Historic Africa Leaders Summit. Photos below: –
Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Thursday announced the reversal of the Lagos State University (LASU) fee from N350,000 to the old rate of N25,000 across board. Fashola made the pronouncement at the 19th convocation ceremony of the higher degree award in Lagos. The governor said he had met the State Executive Council on the issue and an approval to that effect had been made. He said with the reduction, the university would run an uninterrupted academic calendar as the era of students spending extra days from their expected four years was over in the institution. “With the increment…
Nigerian public sector doctors on Thursday suspended a nearly five-week long strike over an Ebola outbreak which has killed two people and infected five others in Lagos. A statement from the National Medical Association union listed “the incursion of Ebola into Nigeria” as a main reason for suspending the strike. The emergence of Ebola in Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest city with more than 20 million people, has created further panic over the worst ever outbreak of the deadly tropical disease. The densely-packed city has a weak public health system which experts say is poorly equipped to manage a significant number…
Some thousand people fleeing Boko Haram attacks in Kolikolia, Borno State, last Thursday arrived on the uninhabited island of Choua in Lake Chad, according to the UN’s refugee agency,UNHCR. The island lies in Chadian waters about four kilometres from where the borders of Chad, Nigeria and Niger intersect. Refugees reported that they fled violence and attacks on their village that resulted in the destruction of their houses and food reserves. The group, which includes mainly women and children, is in urgent need of food, water, shelter and medical care, the agency said. At the request of the government of Chad,…
Before you start crying for the star Nollywood actress, calm down. The photo you see above is of the pretty actress on set for a new movie where she just finished getting her make-up done. I mist say I’m impressed by the improvements happening in the evolving Nollywood industry. See another photo below: –
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Sir Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion on Wednesday paid a surprise visit to the State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole in his office at the Government House, Benin City. Igbinedion, who is the Esama of Benin Kingdom and father of a former governor of the state, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, arrived Government House at some minutes past 1pm and was immediately ushered into the governor’s office. Chief Igbinedion, who was conspicuously absent at the PDP national chairman’s tour of the South-South zone in Calabar, Cross River State on Tuesday, spent about 35 minutes…
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has said the Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, should be held responsible, if anything bad happens to any All Progressives Congress (APC) member. He said he had credible information that Obanikoro and Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, who hails from the state, had instructed security agents to assassinate two APC members. The governor spoke yesterday at the launch of the students’ smart identity card at the Salvation Army Middle School in Alekuwodo, Osogbo. Urging security agents to remain non-partisan, Aregbesola condemned what happened on Monday at the Nelson Mandela Freedom…
US surveillance flights over northeastern Nigeria has shown what looked like large groups of girls clustered in remote locations, raising hopes the group of girls abucted by Islamist sect group, Boko Haram on April 14, has finally beeen located, Thisday reports, citing US and Nigerian officials. The news represents the first near definite information about the location of the abducted schoolgirls by the international forces who had offered to help search for the kidnapped girls. The Nigerian military had claimed in the past that it knew where the girls were but was wary of applying force in a bid to…
Liberian Diplomat Patrick Sawyer, the man credited with ‘importing’ Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) to Nigeria, ‘knew he was sick’ with the virus before entry to Nigeria. He was also advised by the Liberian Health Ministry not to travel out of the country but he ignored the instruction, flew to Nigeria and died here transmitting the virus to Nigerian medical personnel who offered medical services to him. AllAfrica.com gives a very detailed tale of how the Liberian American Patrick Sawyer acted before and after he was diagnosed with Ebola, please read this story and share it: Barely 24 hours before his…
The Delta State Government has set up a committee to educate the residents on the prevention and management of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, who made the disclosure, urged the residents not to panic. He said there was no identified case of the virus in the state, adding that seven hospitals had been designated as isolation centres to handle any suspected case, as part of the measures taken to prevent an outbreak of the disease in the state. So far, the deadly Ebola virus has been limited to Lagos State with awareness and containment measures been put…
Sina Rambo is arguably the least successful in the HKN Gang, but he seems more concerned about his health than the others. The rapper and a potential son in-law to Nigerian billionaire Oskar Ibru, isn’t willing to take any chances. See his caption below + photo: – Sina arrived Lagos today and was spotted with his Ebola mask on.
Southern Kaduna youth groups within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday came out to deny endorsing any candidate for the upcoming gubernatorial primaries in the state. The youths at a press briefing addressed by their coordinator, Gideon Sayal, also distanced themselves from certain individuals planning to endorse the incumbent State Governor, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero on behalf of the group. The coalition said they are grieved over the insensitivity of Yero’s government to the plight of Kaduna State and Southern Kaduna indigenes in particular. “We observe there is plan to endorse Yero by some Southern Kaduna commissioners and special advisers against…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the August 9, 2014 governorship election in Osun state, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has described former Governor of the state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as a serial betrayer. Omisore, who was reacting to Oyinlola’s defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC), said in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr Diran Odeyemi that “the former Governor is a confirmed serial betrayer, a politician who had lost whatever little followers he had due to his inconsistency, political somersaults and unreliability in political alliances”. Omisore who stressed that Oyinlola’s exit from the PDP would not affect…
The Acting Governor of Adamawa State Mr. Ahmadu Fintiri, has denied speculations that the state government purchased Sports Utility Vehicles for local government chairmen in the state. Fintiri, who spoke through his media aide, Solomon Kumangar, on Wednesday, said the purported purchase of SUVs for the council chairmen was the handiwork of mischief makers. He said, “The issue of the purchase of the jeeps is just a calculated attempt to discredit the interim government and distract the attention of the public from the current probe to recover N82bn from the immediate past administration. “The jeeps were bought by the ousted…
Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, said on Wednesday that six commissioners currently serving in Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s administration, would resign their positions and join the Peoples Democratic Party by December 2014. According to him, they are still staying put in the state executive council so as to amass enough wealth to take care of themselves and their families. Wike also boasted that the PDP would win the governorship election in the state next year. The minister spoke in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area during the launch of the Millennium Development Goals’ Economic Empowerment and Conditional Cash Transfer Programme…
Southwest Governors met yesterday in Lagos State on how to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) following the death of a nurse, the first Nigerian victim, on Tuesday. The meeting, which held at the Ikeja Office of the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), was attended by Governors Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) and Oyo State Deputy Governor, Moses Adeyemo. Rising from the closed-door meeting, the governors called on the Federal Government to ensure that the nation’s borders in the Southwest are effectively policed to prevent the EVD from entering the…
President Goodluck Jonathan has indicated that the federal government of Nigeria was not adverse to the help of intermediaries who have offered to persuade the Boko Haram sect to release the over two hundred schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State in April this year. This he indicated while speaking in an interview with the Washington Times in Washington, United States of America (USA), where he is attending an African Leaders Summit convened by US president, Barack Obama, A statement issued by the senior special assistant to the president on public affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, also said that while the support…