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Missing couple found in Ogun DSS detention

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Thursday, September 11th, 2014

By Daud Olatunji ABEOKUTA —SXTY-FIVE days after an Islamic cleric, Abdul Ganiyu Jumah and his wife, Muinat, were reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen at their residence, they were found at the detention facility of the Department of State Services, DSS in Ogun State. The couple, who were residing at 27, Fagbemi Street, Ijoko, in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area […]

Ebola update: Britain to send military, humanitarian experts to fight Ebola

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, September 8th, 2014

(FREETOWN, Sierra Leone) Britain will send military and humanitarian experts to Sierra Leone to set up a medical treatment centre to care for victims of the Ebola outbreak there, the British High Commission said on its Twitter feed on Monday. The epidemic in West Africa – the worst in the disease’s history – has killed […]

Ebola: There is no expatriate drift in Rivers, says commissioner

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Monday, September 8th, 2014

The Rivers government said on Monday that the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the state has not caused any expatriate drift from their work places. The commissioner for health, Dr Sampson Parker, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt that government has not received reports of expatriates leaving the state because […]

Nigeria confirms 19th Ebola case

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 8th, 2014

Fifty days after the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, was imported into the country, the Federal government Monday confirmed the 19th case of the disease, even as another survivor was discharged from the isolation centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, bringing the number of survivors to 11.The 19th case was the fiancé of one of the […]

EBOLA: FG to review resumption date for pry/sec schools

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Monday, September 8th, 2014

Ben Agande, Abuja.The Federal government has decided that the earlier extension of resumption date for primary and secondary schools to the 13th October be reviewed to the middle of September.Addressing state House correspondents after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu said the decision to review the extension of resumption […]

Blatter aims to give coaches right to ‘challenge’ referees (Great – that takes the referee’s ‘I am God” claim away)

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, September 8th, 2014

MANCHESTER (AFP) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Monday he wants to start trials on giving coaches the right to “challenge” referee decisions during a match.The system, backed by television monitors, could be tried at the Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand next year and Blatter said he would like to find a national league […]

Gunmen rob, rape FRCN Training School students

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 8th, 2014

LAGOS — In what is fast becoming the norm, gunmen, Friday, stormed the Federal Radio Cooperation of Nigeria, FRCN, Training School, Lagos State, raping and robbing many of the female trainee journalists. An eye witness in the school said that was the third time the armed men would be attacking the school. An insider said: […]

Prince William and Kate expecting their second child

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, September 8th, 2014

Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their second child, royal officials confirmed on Monday. “The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news,” the statement said. As with her first pregnancy for son, George, now one, Kate is suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum, a […]

Why we don’t stay with our wives —PSquare

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines Monday, September 8th, 2014

Award-winning Nigerian pop duo, Peter and Paul Okoye, have come out to shed light on why their spouses don’t stay with them in their house despite being married for months. The Okoye brothers have been reported to be having issues in the last few months but the duo have confirmed that their differences would not […]

African Union meets for Ebola crisis talks

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, September 8th, 2014

– Tribune African Union chiefs held an emergency meeting Monday to hammer out a continent-wide strategy to deal with the Ebola epidemic, which has killed over 2,000 people in west Africa. “Fighting Ebola must be done in a manner that doesn’t fuel isolation or lead to the stigmatisation of victims, communities and countries,” AU commission […]