THE STATE SECURITY SERVICE WITHDRAWS OPERATIVES FROM AMINU TAMBUWAL, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

After the Nigerian police force had on Thursday 30th of October withdrawn the speaker’s security, citing section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 constitution which stipulates that any lawmaker who defects to another party will lose his position in parliament ─ except his party is factionalised.

65 KILLED IN IRAQ MOSQUE SHOOTING, POLICE SAY

Gunmen shot and killed 65 people and injured 17 others in a Sunni
Muslim mosque during Friday prayers in Iraq’s Diyala province northeast of
Baghdad, police officials in the province said.

The unidentified attackers used automatic machine guns in the Musab bin Omar mosque in the village of Bani Weis , police said.

Bani Weis is about 75 kilometers northeast of the provincial capital, Baquba.

It wasn’t immediately clear who was
behind the attack. Both Sunni militants and Shiite Muslim militias have been active in the province.

Source: CNN

EBOLA: WHY PATRICK SAWYER TRAVELLED TO NIGERIA – WIFE

The widow of late Patrick Sawyer, the
Liberian who brought Ebola into Nigeria, has defended her husband’s decision to travel to Africa’s most populous country, saying he did so in desperate search for a country with better healthcare system than his own country.

In an article published earlier today, TMZ Liberia Magazine http://www.mytmzliberia.net/) quoted Decontee Sawyer, who is a radio host in New York, as explaining that Mr. Sawyer had no trust in the healthcare system in Liberia and had possibly headed to Nigeria with the hope of receiving better treatment for his ailment.

HONG KONG TESTS NIGERIAN MAN FOR EBOLA

The deadly Ebola virus that has taken about a thousand lives in West Africa since the beginning of 2014, has kept governments around the world at alert.

In the effort of the Hong Kong government as the situation requires to curb a cross-boarder spread of the Virus. It was confirmed that a 31 years old Nigerian man who was vomiting

PDP REFUSES TO ENDORSE OSUN STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION RESULT, WRITES PETITION

Deep inside, we know we’re important and significant. We want the world to see that great person we really are. No wonder the grave hurt we experience at being turned down or rejected.

The news coming in from The Punch states that the agent for the Peoples Democratic Party in the election and the Publicity Secretary for the state, Mr. Bola Ajao, has failed to endorse the Osun governorship election results.

OSUN GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION: APC CANDIDATE, OGBENI RAUF AREGBESOLA WINS

In the final result of the Osun State governorship election announced by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) on Sunday 10th August 2014, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola Emerged the winner among 20 candidate who contested in the election.

FULL RESULTS OF OSUN STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

Full results of Osun State governorship election :

Ifedayo APC 4,225 PDP 3982

Boluwaduro APC 4,891 PDP 5,035

Ilesha East APC 16,106 PDP 5,913

Odo Otin APC 11,950 PDP 12,902

Ilesha West APC 15,427 PDP 5,449

Orolu APC 8,558 PDP 6,786

Ebola: Jonathan bans movement of corpses

President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a national emergency to “control and contain” the Ebola virus in Nigeria, banning the movement of
corpses from one community to the other as well as from outside the
country.

He has also approved a special intervention plan and the immediate release of N1.9 billion for its implementation.

The full extent of the emergency and its implications were, however, not stated in the press statement by presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, which he issued on Friday
evening.

STILL ON EBOLA VIRUS: LAGOS SUSPENDS RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES TILL FURTHER NOTICE

As a result of the death of two victims of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Lagos,
western Nigeria, the state government
has ordered churches and Muslim
prayer groups in the state to suspend
all crusades and other programmes
that will attract large gatherings to
avoid spread of the disease.

EBOLA VIRUS: HOT WATER AND SALT NOT A CURE-INFORMATION MINISTER CAUTIONS NIGERIANS

The Nigerian Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, today Friday 8 August 2014 turned down the rumours that bathing with hot water and salt solution can be used to prevent Ebola virus infection.

A statement signed by the Minister’s Chief Press Secretary, Joseph Mutah, said the speculation that salt and hot water solution cures the deadly viral disease is not real, its only a misinformation.