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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Saturday, August 9th, 2014
A Canadian who recently visited Nigeria is being held in isolation at Brampton Civic Hospital in Ontario for showing symptoms of the Ebola Virus Disease. According to a Canadian public health official, the patient was reported to be showing initial symptoms of Ebola which were similar to more common diseases, such as malaria. Dr. Eileen […]
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Headlines, INEC Politics, Osun, State News
Friday, August 8th, 2014
A total of 1,407,222 voters, comprising 661,394 males (47 per cent) and 745,828 females (53 per cent), were registered by INEC to vote in Saturday’s governorship election In Osun. An Information kit on the election issued by the commission indicated that there were 332 wards, 3,010 polling units and 3,379 voting points across the 30 […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines
Friday, August 8th, 2014
United States President Barack Obama says he has authorised air strikes against Islamic militants in northern Iraq but will not send US troops back to the country. He said Islamic State (IS) fighters would be targeted to prevent the slaughter of religious minorities, or if they threaten US interests. Strikes have not yet begun, but […]
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Headlines, Judiciary, Kwara, State News
Friday, August 8th, 2014
After about 15 years of nerve-wracking battle, the Supreme Court has finally upheld the decisions of a Federal High Court in Ilorin, which declared the withholding of the academic records and degrees of two former students of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) unlawful. Delivering judgement in an appeal lodged by the University of Ilorin, the […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Friday, August 8th, 2014
By Our Reporter on August 7, 2014 · Entertainment, Trending (LAGOS) Nigerians on Wednesday took to social media to berate American billionaire/businessman, Donald Trump, over his comments calling on U.S. government to stop all flights from West African countries with Ebola outbreak. Trump also protested the return of two Americans, Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, August 8th, 2014
Ebola-death-toll-increases By Our Reporter on August 8, 2014 · COVER The Liberia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, said on Friday in Washington that health care system in Liberia has collapsed over the Ebola epidemic. Ngafuan said hospitals were closing down and medical workers fleeing from the Ebola epidemic, which is poised to worsen. […]
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Adamawa, Governors, Headlines, State News
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
By Abdulwahab Abdulah Former deputy governor of Adamawa State, Mr. James Ngilari has prayed a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to order the state chief justice to inaugurate him as the substantive Governor of Adamawa State. In his originating summon, Ngilari hinged his argument on the ground that he did not formally resign from […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
By Emm Una CALABAR- THREE Students of the University of Calabar were on Wednesday evening shot by stray bullets discharged from the riffle of a security officer of the university. The shooting happened following an inconclusive Student Union Government election contested by four candidates: Emmanuel Akobi, Ajang Emmanuel, Ilefa Austin and Afo Nelson. According a […]
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Headlines
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
ABUJA (AFP) – 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 […]
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Delta, Headlines, State News
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta has announced the designation of seven hospitals as isolation centres for identified cases of Ebola disease in the state. Speaking at a meeting of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in the Delta North and Delta South senatorial zones in Asaba, the governor said there was no case of Ebola […]
