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F117A: Absolutely disgusting.
I had a friend like that who practised cohabition to the limits.
He was living with one very naive babe that was giving him raw sex and other wively benefits for four years.
I remember having this involuntary desire to puke whenever i see that lady.
Seriously,with everything i have seen,i have realized that the luckiest and smartest guys are the ones married to virgins.

Are you sick in the head? Your cultural or religious conditioning has overtaken your logic. Why didn't you feel the urge to puke everytime looking at YOUR FRIEND? He surely was the one who wooed her into the arrangement for his own benefit. smh

tensazangetsu: people's future wives fucking another guy and suckin.g his dick for years if i ever get married let me drop dead

Did you ever stop to think that the man getting his dick s.ucked and sticking it into countless others is also going to be putting it into his future wife? Why is it men think only women should be held to this pure standard of being virgin? Is it not just as low for a man to have bagged 50 girls by the time he is 29 to then turn around and demand that his future wife be "pure" and untouched? What kind of idiotic double standard is that?

Okay, so I read the article from the link and came away with: a team of ANAMBRA INDIGENES, MEDICAL doctors who left Nigeria to study or live in the US, have come to Anambra to aide the Anambra people. I am not seeing where this white man conspiracy tone should come in. If ANAMBRA INDIGENES see fit to come back to their country and state of birth to help their people, kudos. The fact that your mother fell sick from taking blood pressure medication prescribed by someone at one of these clinics should be followed up by a reliable and credible doctor who is conversant with the side effects of that medication. The dose may be too high or too low and needs adjusted, or perhaps ANOTHER medication would be better for her, all of which require followup and accompaniment. The OP seems to be telling us that there are strange white people wandering around Anambra searching for guinea pigs to test some diabolical "medicine" on.

And according to research, those bodily fluids include se men, with the ebola virus living in the testicles for up to 7 weeks. What is disturbing in that photo it appears there is a frail woman sitting in the chair with her hand up imploring, or maybe it is dead body removal with rigor mortis, regardless, this is a horrible tragedy for so many and it pains me. We must strive to do better and hold FG accountable for implementing and providing better quality healthcare, infrastructure as roads etc, lights, water, sewage treatment. This corruption madness has to stop. Nigeria is dying and Boko Haram is just picking the flesh off the extremities til they can get to the heart. Nigeria, come out of your slumber....

For anyone doubting the utter failure of the FG and military....read on. Meanwhile, two new helicopter are being delivered as "transport" for the FG hippos ease and comfort. Rot in HELL you thieving swine.
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Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Boko Haram has seized control of a town in northeastern Nigeria, the latest to fall into Islamist hands in the crisis-hit region, witnesses and a local official said Thursday.
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Several residents who fled the Boko Haram assault on Buni Yadi in Yobe state said it began late last month, with the insurgents ultimately taking over the main government building.

They have reportedly raised their flag above the building and have carried out summary executions, including of two people who were caught smoking cigarettes.

Abdullahi Bego, the spokesman for Yobe's Governor Ibrahim Geidam, could not confirm the executions.

But he told AFP:"As I speak there are no military in Buni Yadi and locals say that Boko Haram come and go as they please.

"So many people from Buni Yadi have fled to the state capital Damaturu," he added.

Residents said the rebels, who massacred dozens of students at a boarding school in Buni Yadi in February and kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from neighbouring Borno state in April, had set up roadblocks.

They were also robbing people as they tried to flee.

"I left Buni Yadi yesterday (Wednesday) because it was no longer safe for me and my family," said trader Surajo Muhammad.

The gunmen "shot dead two men for smoking and they also killed a known drug peddler", he added.

Tijjani Bukar, who also fled, reported the same executions.

"I couldn't stay any longer because I came to realise these people have come to stay," he said.

"I thought they would be there for a few days but from our understanding they have turned the town into their (territory)."

The United Nations has confirmed that Boko Haram had seized control of the towns of Damboa and Gwoza in Borno state in recent weeks.

There are indications that Damboa was retaken by the military in an offensive earlier this month but details are not clear.
http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-takes-over-another-nigeria-town-witnesses-142352168.html

THE TRAGEDY OF EBOLA
http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/Ebola-African-Economies-Workers/2014/08/20/id/589974/
Wednesday, 20 Aug 2014 08:21 PM
Sandi Sesay’s boss promised him three months of pay when he told the driver to stop coming to work. The goal was to prevent any possible spread of Ebola at the Sierra Leone mine that employs him.

Two weeks later, Sesay, 29, has yet to see any money from Dawnus Construction Ltd., a contractor at London Mining Plc’s Marampa iron-ore deposit.

“I take care of my mother, my sisters and my wife and three children,” he said at a gas station near his home, wearing jeans and a white long-sleeve T-shirt. “How am I going to cope?”

Sesay’s and Sierra Leone’s prospects were bright before the worst-ever outbreak of the virus. The economy was set to grow 14 percent, almost three times faster than the average in sub- Saharan Africa. In Liberia and Guinea, investment in iron ore was luring billions of dollars and fueling growth.

Then the first case of Ebola appeared in December. Initially tagged as a short-term phenomenon with limited impact, the disease now threatens to cripple three economies with a combined gross domestic product of about $13 billion — less than that of Afghanistan.

Commodity companies are slowing production and airlines are shutting routes. In Liberia, the government says the economic impact threatens to derail progress made since the end of the civil war in 2003. Sierra Leone canceled the first sale of bonds open to foreigners last week.

Slowing Down

Sime Darby Bhd, the world’s largest palm oil producer, has slowed production in Liberia, while Sifca SA halted rubber output from its plant there. ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steelmaker, postponed expansion plans at its iron-ore mine in northern Liberia because contractors moved some of their workers out of the country. London Mining and African Minerals Ltd., which operate in Sierra Leone, have seen their shares fall.

Richard Evans, a spokesman for Swansea, U.K.-based Dawnus, said this was the first he’d heard of anyone not being paid, adding that a “large number” of non-essential staff had been asked not to come to work while getting basic pay.

Africa’s richest man, Nigerian cement magnate Aliko Dangote, has pulled some employees out of his Liberia cement plant and says 1 percentage point of growth may be shaved off the region that includes Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

“It will be a great impact,” Dangote said in an Aug. 5 interview with Bloomberg Television. “But various governments are doing things to tackle the situation.”

Staying Home

Liberia has banned public gatherings and told non-essential government workers to stay home. In Sierra Leone, the government sent hundreds of troops to cordon off the hardest-hit areas. Edmond Saidu, the district agriculture officer in Kailahun District, says the disease killed farmers on cocoa and peanut plantations and rice farms, leaving the crops to rot. Liberia also has closed off afflicted regions.

The Liberian government is even planning to close open-air markets, a measure that will probably push up prices in the capital. At the crowded Duala market in central Monrovia, 17- year-old food seller Mary Kolubah said business had slowed. The wholesale shop where she obtains bags of rice in order to resell them in smaller, paper-wrapped quantities raised prices 10 percent in just a few days, she said.

Nearby, meat seller Amadu Bah, 46, sat idle at his empty stall. Cattle traders have stopped importing cows from Guinea and Sierra Leone because the beasts must cross through infected areas, he said: “I’m out of business now because selling cow meat is the only thing I’ve known since I was 25 years old.”

Body Bags

Distrust of government in the three countries runs so deep that officials are still struggling to convince citizens that Ebola exists and isn’t a hoax. The virus exposed limitations of the health care systems that include a scarcity of doctors and thermometers, a shortage of body bags that prevents burials and medical workers neglecting basic hygiene such as hand washing.

The official tally of deaths may underestimate how much the disease has spread, the UN’s health agency said last week. More than 1,200 people have died in the three countries and five have succumbed in Nigeria. The government in Africa’s largest economy has so far managed to avoid a wider outbreak.

The disease struck just as the three smaller countries were starting to bounce back from a past of violence and instability. Liberia is recovering from a civil war that spilled into its neighbor Sierra Leone during the 1990s, leaving both economies ruined. In 2010, Guinea, the world’s biggest bauxite exporter, held its first democratic elections since independence following decades of erratic military rule.

Moving West

Isolating the affected areas in Sierra Leone has made it almost impossible to get food to the capitals. The UN’s food aid agency says it will need to feed 5 percent of the population of the three countries in the coming months.

The past few months mark the first time the disease, identified in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, has killed anyone in west Africa. The virus lives naturally in fruit bats and other wild animals. Humans get it from the animal’s secretions and pass it on to other humans through contact with bodily fluids.

The outbreak is isolating the countries, even if the UN health agency says air travel is an unlikely major transmission point. Nigeria’s Arik Air suspended flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone after a Liberian man traveled by plane to Lagos and infected at least eight others with the disease after he collapsed at the airport.

British Airways Plc and Kenya Air Lines also halted routes to Liberia and Sierra Leone, while Gulf carrier Emirates scrapped flights to Guinea. Korean Air Lines on Aug. 14 canceled flights to Kenya’s capital of Nairobi, a regional hub located thousands of miles away from West Africa.

Rising Prices

“It’s not just that international flights are canceled and movement of people is restricted because of the quarantine measures,” said political analyst Lansana Gberie. “There’s also a disabling psychological atmosphere that isn’t conducive to productivity.”

Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia will need about six more months to turn the outbreak around, according to Doctors Without Borders. By then, the effects of the health emergency will have spread further, into oil prices — the three countries import all their oil -- food costs and lost iron-ore production.

Residents of the hilly streets overlooking the Gulf of Guinea in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, spend their days at home, worrying about rising food and fuel prices, despite government promises to crack down on price-gouging opportunists. Checkpoints manned by military remind residents of a 1999 assault by rebels that left thousands dead.

Fatmata Edna Njai, a 35-year-old hotel receptionist, said she was dumbfounded when her employer handed her an envelope with the equivalent of a third of her monthly salary two weeks ago and told her to stay away until Ebola is contained. The hotel wasn’t getting any customers, and Fatmata was told she hasn’t lost her job.

She now stays with her son, parents and three relatives inside their apartment most of the day, and says she’s run out of money. “I’m praying and fasting so that God will provide me a job,” she said.

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The only thing people need to remember is that the Middle Eastern Muslim tribes have been at war with each other from the beginning of time. There is NO ONE in the world, not Russia, not the US, not China, not Israel, NO ONE, who can get a handle on their murdering rampages. History just repeats itself over and over. If a Western power backs one side or the other, it is CERTAIN that next week, next month, next year, three decades down the road, that particular tribe and brand of Islam will come back on you to slit your throat. What we are seeing now is a dizzying backing of Sunni versus Shia, Shia joined with Sunni, Shia verus Sunni, Sunni versus minority tribe, Shia versus minority tribe, Al Qaeda versus ISIL, it is a fluid and deranged madness spreading across the land, always has been, always will. The Yazidi and Sufi are being slaughtered by the Salafists now, just as always, and it will never change. Islam is rife with divisions and deep seated tribal hatred, right now it is a scramble for power. These murderers are ALL repulsive and anti-God, meaning they are mere demon-men who challenge the right of people to follow their own tribal worship and customs. This is jihad folks, Salafist Jihad at its core root and teaching. Mali is only a stone's throw away, Sudan is only a stone's throw away, these are places where Muslims have lost their lives for simply existing in their villages as their forefathers before them, not to speak of Nigeria. What is happening now is not a united jihad for an Islamic Caliphate-it is a supreme grab for power and wealth, only that...by murderous deranged thugs. When man steps between anothers right to worship God, and claims that only they know the "true" path to God, is when murder breaks out on this planet. People never, ever learn this. No one has the right to step between a praying man or woman and their individual connection to God. It is as simple as that.

redsun: If they can't easily crush local bokoharam,what happens if isis decides to come over and help their bothers in atrocities?They wil sweep through nigeria in blink of an eye.

You've said it. If Nigeria does not wake up, Ebola will seem like the lesser evil of the two. Those demons are not human at all. They are blood thirsty maniacs high on killing and torturing. How can a human being justify the live burial of women and children? The beheading of over 300 men and boys in one day? These demons are simply insane jackals that need a bullet between their eyes and dropped. God help Nigeria in this battle between those who choose and uphold what is GOOD, fair and just in life and those who choose to follow DARKNESS, ignorance, arrogance, selfishness and death. The tide will turn at some point, but let it be before Nigeria pays an even higher and terrible price for hosting these maniacal zealots and their ideology.

That money is sitting in someone's account gaining interest, you can bet on it. Time to squeeze these ticks sucking money off the FG, which is THE PEOPLE'S MONEY, NOT THEIR OWN PRIVATE ACCOUNT TO DO WITH AS THEY WISH.

If not his wife gf or his sister, he deserved at the minimum a tongue lashing.

F117A: What bloody economic aid are you talking about?
Is it the aid given to american companies like chevron,texaco and co .
You must seriously be deluded.
Tell your masters to sell us weapons.
Nigeria need those weapons than egypt at this point.
West africa is currently the most volatile region in africa.

kobonaire: I guess you were not able to comprehend the wiki link i earlier posted for you. I have used some crayons to mark the necessary sections to show you how Nigeria received 3 times more economic aid than Egypt. No, that aid was not given to the oil companies you silly .... it was economic aid ... which unfortunately was probably all chopped by the ogas at the top. The oil companies publish all their financials for you to peruse (unless you also want me to crayon that for you??).
Nigeria has more than enough resources to defeat Boko Haram ... it's the will that is lacking and the corruption in the government and military top brass. Hopefully you know that you do not add more water into a leaking bucket in the hopes that it will fill up??

GBAM!

Ivanspring: Who asked for their commendation?

Seriously, people were foaming at the mouth hours ago because the news the 4 had been released wasn't hitting front page headlines in western media though it was middle of the night there, now people are foaming at the mouth because US has praised Nigeria on a job well done. WTF? And yet Nigerians are still with their hand out begging for non existent zmapp because it has all been sent to Liberia to treat 3 doctors and an aide worker. They rightly got the experimental drug because they have the most to lose and are very hard hit. They are being ravaged by this ebola in so many ways that there are now food drops and full on village wide area quarantines as they cannot control the virus. Farmers cannot get to their fields because of roadblocks so massive famine and food shortage is feared. Many of their doctors and nurses have DIED leaving none to treat the ill, pregnant women in labor, accidents etc, let alone those sick with ebola, yet Nigerians still want to blame anyone and everything for their own childishness and lack of logic. You might not like what the US stands for, but you certainly will be first to shout when you think the US can help your own misery and that caused by the feckless bloody FG who invest in nothing for the common man, religious zealots and governor/senator terrorist supporters. smh

Henh...too sad. That is no way to live a life especially for students trying to study or trying to look sharp with pressed clothing. It is embarrassing that so many women and tailor need to depend on the coal iron press to press clothing and I even see small children falling into those hot coals sometimes. It is very annoying to have to run like a mad cockroach when the alarm goes off that power has arrived to plug in your phone or press clothes, but imagine never even having the chance for 10 years? What is wrong with this local government sef?

CHANGE THIS TITLE! IT IS NOT "EBOLA" CASE, IT IS "SUSPECTED" OR "POSSIBLE".

I don't believe him. I think he has no control over whether he bites someone or not; the man is simply possessed during the match and unless someone whacks him over the head with a big stick-he will not let go of that bone/leg/arm/hand. smh the guy is sick sha.

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Reuters
Posted: 08/18/2014 2:01 pm EDT Updated: 08/18/2014 3:59 pm EDT
By Humeyra Pamuk

DAYRABUN, Iraq, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Refugee Samo Ilyas Ali has nine children to feed but he can't focus on the future because the sounds of women and children crying out for help while being buried alive by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq often consume his mind.

Tens of thousand of Yazidis fled their ancient homeland of Sinjar and other villages to escape a dramatic push by the Sunni militants who regard the ethnic minority as devil worshippers who must embrace their radical version of Islam or die.

The refugees sit idle in camps in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

Traumatized by Islamic State militants notorious for beheadings and mass executions, they have simply given up on Iraq and want to go as far away as possible; to countries like Germany, worlds away from their mysterious customs.

U.S. air strikes against Islamic State positions and vows by Kurdish commanders to recapture Yazidi villages provided no reassurances.

It's easy to see why.

Ten days ago, Ali and his fellow villagers were suddenly surrounded by Islamic State militants with machine guns at night. They had long beards. Some had face masks and Arabic writing on the sides of their heads.


NO ONE TO HELP

Absent from the scene were Kurdish peshmerga, or "those who confront death", fighters who had held parts of the north and were seen as the only force that could stand up to Islamic State after thousands of U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers fled their advance, leaving them with heavy weapons including tanks

Suddenly the men began digging ditches - soon to become mass graves.

"We did not understand. Then they started to put people in those holes, those people were alive," said former grocery shop owner Ali, 46, pausing to weep.

"After a while we heard gunfire. I can't forget that scene. Women, children, crying for help. We had to run for our lives, there was nothing to be done for them."

It was not possible to independently verify these accounts.

Some of the Yazidis escaped with the help of Turkish and Syrian Kurdish fighters. But similar scenes are reported in several parts of the north.

In some of the most recent bloodshed, militants massacred at least 80 Yazidi men in Kawju village because they refused to convert to Islam, Iraqi officials said. Women and children were abducted.

Islamic State seemed most intent on killing members of Iraq's majority Shi'ite sect, which it considers to be heretical. During Islamic State's latest offensive in the north, minority Yazidis and Christians have suffered the most.

The Yazidis, followers of an ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism, are spread over northern Iraq and are part of the country's Kurdish minority.

Many of their villages were destroyed when Saddam Hussein's troops tried to crush the Kurds. Some were taken away by the executed former dictator's intelligence agents.

Now they feel helpless again. Fellow Kurds abandoned them. Iraq has a new prime minister who is seen as moderate and may be less inclined to engage in disputes with the Kurds over budgets and oil than his predecessor, perhaps bringing political stability that could benefit the north.

But many Yazidis have lost faith in Iraq and its leaders. They have few options. Some complained that Kurdish forces would not let them travel to Turkey.

So for now, it seems all they can do is wait, and try to forget what caused them to flee their homes.

"They put women and children under the ground. They were alive. I still hear their screams. They were trying to keep their heads up to keep breathing," said car repairman Dawud Hassan, 26.

"Iraq is finished for me. We had houses, shops, they all burnt our things. We have nothing. We want to cross to Turkey but the peshmerga is not letting us. We will not stay there, we want to go to Europe."

It is not clear if Iraqi government forces or peshmerga will manage to claw back territory and then hold it - something that could help Yazidis believe in their country again.

Islamic State is getting more ambitious. It has already grabbed much of the north and resources such as oil fields that will help fund its self-proclaimed caliphate.

Some Yazidis, like Hassan, 22, a student, shake their heads in disbelief when recalling how only foreign Kurdish fighters from Turkey or Syria extended a lifeline in the face of Islamic State.

"They tied the hands of one woman to the back of a car and her legs to another car and they split her into two," he said beside makeshift tents as women cried.

"Have you seen anything like this? This is all because she is not Muslim and did not want to be converted. We barely made it." (Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Giles Elgood)

Hmmmm...so I wonder how Boko boyz are going to handle this now, or will they keep charging in to get their fair share of virus. Let's see if the personnel who control the border checkpoint are going to uphold this closure or just ask for stiffer bribe.

lokodon: They don't need him to come to them. They should come to him, that's how journalism is done.

Lol. Not in Nigeria. You want to be in the news you hand over that brown paper bag filled with cash. I expect it will be picked up by int. news if the news report is true.

817: The world is really wired up for bad news. When the Minister of Health announced that Nigeria has had its first Ebola Case all the news agencies carried the news in a flash. All the updates on how many people have contacted the disease was on news wires before you could blink. Now the same Minister of Health has officially announced how well Nigeria has managed Ebola resulting in 4 people being certified free of the disease. Unfortunately not one international news agency has carried the news. I think is time we realise that the western world does not think that any good will come out of Africa. What a shame!

Perhaps, 1, they are waiting to make sure the news is true, since naija military, FG etc., don't have a very good track record on getting numbers, names, truth straight, and 2, the "western World" is a good 4 to 16 hours BEHIND naija time and they have not hit the hour to change their front pages. I'm sure the news will be reported, once it's verified, you know, journalism standards and media outlets and papers not wanting to get a reputation for spreading the wrong information.

gsparks01: since when did monkey become a fearful animal??

When they are running straight at you and leap for your throat covering 10 meters in one second. They have long pointed teeth and very strong jaws. Even the small ones. I have a scar on my thumb from where one bit me at about age 14. Had I not put my hand up to protect my throat I would probably be dead. They can be very unpredictable and even more so if raised as a pet. They are never "tamed". Maybe they like their owner but God forbid you visit someone with pet monkey and that monkey starts acting like a jealous boyfriend or girlfriend.

prettyboi1989: Ya'll knw dat dese suicide bombers are retards, saw a pic of a foreign suicide bomber who was caught, he wore somfin hard to cover hez diick, so he was askd y he did dat n he sed its to keep hez dick intact so wen he gets to heaven it will b able 2 service d virgins. M lyk dis guy is insane. Insanity is nt wen som1 starts walkin naked on d road, it is wen ppl start believing in falasies upon falasies. Derz no virgin anywhr u die u dnt get ur diick wif u. Ur body is gone.

I also read something like that where a suicide bomber was wrapping his "package" in cotton wool. Bloody fecking imbeciles. That's what you get after thousands and thousands of years bleeping your fecking sister or first cousin through marriage and producing more fecking inbred eeediots.. The whole Arab world is inbred and dangerously stupid. Not to mention their false cult of blood lust and women/child wrapping.

NOW you bloody goats can believe what I have been shouting for days. SMH The cure for ignorance is to search for the truth, not rush together like a herd of stampeding goat bent on self destruction. Instead of conspiracy theories and hatred for anything from the West why don't you figure out how to make Nigeria a better place, starting with education yourself and showing restraint in exposing an oil parched headpan.

abatically: So what? Did he carry out scientific analysis to determine if it was Ebola? Or don't u know a patient with malaria also has the same symptoms as one with typhoid fever? Or that someone with HIV has same symptoms as malaria? Someone with syphilis might also have same symptoms as someone with gonorrhea.

Aisan ode ko, aisan apeja no.

I don't understand what your "so what" issue is. If the man states he thinks he has treated the ebola in the past, then let him try. Duh, fever is fever and many diseases mimic same symptoms, we know that, but if someone is dying of ebola and wishes to be a guinea pig test subject for bitter kola, salt purge, nano silver, or ewe, let the man show his stuff. After all, that is how cures can be found. If our illustrious Ministry of Health is not backing up clinical trial and research of ANYTHING except advanced money looting, I say let some ambitious person from the private sector bankroll a scientific study of our native plants and their efficacy. Or would that be too logical, forward thinking and progressive....

Ignorance, poverty, corruption and plain STUPIDITY at work. Nigerian's needs to wake up to the fact that this scenario could also play out in many places within our borders. We need massive public health and education investment, that is, if the Islamists won't slit our throats for trying.

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1 hour ago

Monrovia (AFP) - Seventeen patients infected with Ebola were unaccounted for on Sunday after [size=18pt]they fled an armed raid on a quarantine centre in Monrovia by men who claimed the epidemic is a fiction.[/size]


"They broke down the door and looted the place. The patients have all gone," said Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the attack out the outskirts of the Liberian capital.

Her report was confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams.

Williams said the unit housed 29 patients who "had all tested positive for Ebola" and were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to hospital.

"Of the 29 patients, 17 fled last night (after the assault). Nine died four days ago and three others were yesterday (Saturday) taken by force by their relatives" from the centre, he said.

The attackers, mostly young men armed with clubs, shouted that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf "is broke" and "there's no Ebola" in Liberia as they broke into the unit in a Monrovia suburb, Wesseh said.

Residents had opposed the creation of the centre, set up by health authorities in part of the city considered an epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the Liberian capital.

"We told them not to (build) their camp here. They didn't listen to us," said a young resident, who declined to give his name.

"We don't believe in this Ebola outbreak."

The Ebola outbreak, the worst since the virus first appeared in 1976, has claimed 1,145 lives in five months, according to the UN World Health Organization's latest figures as of August 13: 413 in Liberia, 380 in Guinea, 348 in Sierra Leone and four in Nigeria.

Search for: Ebola outbreak, Liberia, Monrovia

slightlyMad: how can you cure something you havent had a privilege of coming across in your entire existence?
has he seen an ebola patient before or has he cured one?

Did you read what was written? The herbalist stated he had treated this before: ..."He said the description and symptoms of Ebola
match the rare sickness he treated in the past. He called it “Aisan Ode” in Ondo State’s native Ikale dialect, adding that it is a striking sign of a
deity related to the waters called ‘Obaluaye’. He said it was highly contagious and almost incurable.(continue)"...
Let him try.

People are wicked and very quick to rush into a public sentiment that is fueled by ignorance and lack of morals, values, ethics and good character. Stupidity and ignorance is not owned by any one color or nationality. If Nigerians shun and turn their backs on these poor ebola victims, it is the final stamp of approval that this IS a wicked nation filled with wicked people. I just pray that the precautions needed to stem this ebola are taken and we avoid a full breakdown of society and also economic hardship that the main affected nations are now facing. This is not a joke people. Just because we have few infected now does not mean we cannot end up just like Liberia, and they are going to face the repercussions from this virus for a long long time. They also started with few infections and look now. Ebola has affected everyone. People are losing their shantytown homes from bulldozers and fear that the unsanitary conditions will harbor ebola, a spokesperson for the Liberian President said that in those shantytowns were also dried fish sellers (meaning they could possibly spread ebola through infected dried fish in the "unclean" shantytown area) The economic market is not circulating as normal so people are experiencing even more poverty, and the very few doctors, nurses and volunteers who are on hand to stem this virus are not attending to other patients and emergencies. This means that more women are dying in childbirth,leaving a shattered and broken family; more people are dying of normally treatable disease such as malaria and people are dying from lack of medical attention due to accidents. We do not want this to happen in Nigeria. Support the brave medical staff and volunteers who are risking their lives to save all of Nigeria.

Ekundayo7:
Do you live in Nigeria? Just what exactly constitutes "war torn" in your vocabulary? Nigeria is indeed a war torn country. FG robbing pigs at war with Nigerian citizens, Muslim at war versus Christian, Christian versus Ifa traditionalist, Northern versus Southern, Boko Haram terrorist versus anything that moves and breathes, Governor against Governor, APC versus PDP, OPC versus OPC, Oba versus Oba, Man against Woman, Man versus Man, Woman versus Woman, Friend versus Friend, Madam against house help and anyone who doesn't do her bidding, Ritual Killer against Unlucky Passerby, Employers against Employee, everyone in Nigeria takes out their frustration on those they deem beneath them. Nigeria has no emergency services to speak of, no sanitation to speak of, no electricity to speak of, no sewage processing to speak of, no clean water to speak of, no public health education and clinics to speak of, no decent education to speak of, no employment opportunities to speak of, the list goes on and on. This is indeed a "poor nation" as the FG and private sector have NOT invested and done their duty to create and run proper ministries that give what every nation needs as a basic bedrock and foundation for her citizens to thrive. Corruption is the death of Nigeria, and ignorance is a close second.

calebo101: Bro do you know whats happening in Iraq, Libya, Israel/palestine, Ukraine? Do you watch the news and follow global events? If you do believe me sometimes you would be glad that all we have to tackle is Boko Haram.

AND ARE YOU NOT AWARE THAT NIGERIA IS IN WHAT IS CALLED A "FLUID" STATE RIGHT NOW?? Are you with malaria?? You think we are "STABLE"? Are you another of those who says "Boko Haram is in d North now" when dismissing any possibility of violence in Yorubaland. (which has already happened, I have police friends who know things media does not report) Good God man, we are sitting on tinderbox with the devil pouring more fuel on day after day, JUST AS IRAQ, LIBYA, ISRAEL, PALESTINE AND UKRAINE. AND YOU THINK BEING HIT WITH EBOLA IS NOTHING?? YOU THINK BOKO JUST KIDNAPPING ANOTHER 90 ODD YOUNG MEN IS STABLE?? YOU THINK THEY ARE STOPPING? Nigerian and their head in the sand sefs. I'm not bothering to answer you again until you wake up from your fever.

A very interesting video, I pray for all these people being displaced by the razing of their homes. Tried to get the video embed but wouldn't work.
http://www.voanews.com/media/video/2415625.html
Red Cross Federation Chief: Ebola Can Be Defeated
Lisa Schlein
August 16, 2014 6:09 AM
GENEVA—

The head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says he is optimistic that Ebola, which is decimating people in West Africa, can be defeated. But, he warns time is of the essence to stop the spread of the deadly disease.

More than 1,500 Red Cross volunteers are working in Ebola-affected communities in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Secretary-General of the International Red Cross Federation, Elhadj as Sy says these men and women are on the frontline of the fight against Ebola.

He says he is humbled by the work they do. And, the visit he recently paid to Guinea and Sierra Leone was in large part to show solidarity with them. He wanted to show these brave men and women that they were not alone in their struggle to combat this vicious disease.

“I do not know how I would look like if six months after Ebola then I come to say thank you while during that time when they were on the field risking their lives and doing the best they could and I sit in Geneva all the time,” he said.

Sy says national Red Cross societies throughout the world are involved in bringing the Ebola epidemic to an end. He says nearly 130 international staff members are working in the field.

In addition, he says volunteers are coming from 17 different countries around the world.

Regional knowledge

He says they include people from neighboring Ivory Coast and Rwanda, as well as Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo--nations that have been struck with Ebola in the past and have a wealth of knowledge to impart.

“I think that shows a very strong sense of solidarity-that all resources are required," he said. "Expertise is a resource. Experience of having worked in an Ebola setting is a resource. Bringing your own knowledge of the environment and the cultural setting is a resource. And, of course, we badly need the financial resources and the infrastructure and the equipments that will allow us to cope and then continue to support the response.”

The Red Cross Federation chief says the overwhelming support from so many people and governments makes him optimistic that this disease, which already has claimed more than 1,000 lives, will be defeated. But, he notes it will take many more months and many more lives before this is accomplished.

“While we are very happy with what is being done, we are always asking ourselves if this is enough - probably not," said Sy. "It is not enough because we need to keep on going to scale to reach almost everybody. There is nothing like a half solution in this kind of crisis. So, 50 percent or 70 percent or even 80 will not be satisfactory. We will only make a difference if we walk the whole last mile to the 100 percent.”

[/b]Secretary-General Sy stresses the importance of remaining vigilant. He warns against complacency once cases start to go down, as has happened in the past. He says this could trigger a slower response to the epidemic, which would be a disaster. He says the effort to combat this disease must be sustained until Ebola is stopped.
http://www.voanews.com/content/ebola-can-be-defeated-but-time-is-of-the-essenced/2415466.html

This is a lie. No Nigerian invented "nano silver". There have been "silver" products around for ages for sale on the market worldwide. This is for someone to drum up sales and make fat money off ebola. Oh, and for you idiots who have not yet gotten up to speed, not only did the US send all the supply of Zmap to West Africa (widely publicized in media), but Canada, China and Germany have also sent their own experimental ebola drugs to West Africa, all for free, so please, [size=18pt]SHUT THE FECK UP ALREADY AND GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE. TAKE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST EBOLA: WEAR LONG SLEEVES IN TIGHT PUBLIC SPACES TO MINIMIZE EXCHANGING SWEAT, STAY AWAY FROM PEOPLE SNEEZING AND COUGHING OR VISIBLY ILL. WASH YOUR HANDS FREQUENTLY WITH WIPES OR USE A SOLUTION OF DILUTED BLEACH OR 3% HYDROGEN PEROXIDE., WASH YOUR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES BEFORE CONSUMING AND PLACE THEM IN WATER WITH A FEW DROPS BLEACH TO DISINFECT THE SKINS. EBOLA VIRUS IS PASSED THROUGH SALIVA, TEARS, URINE, VOMIT, FECES, BLOOD AND CAN LIVE IN THE TESTICLES OF A MAN WHO WAS EBOLA INFECTED BUT SURVIVED, FOR UP TO 7 WEEKS. EDUCATE YOURSELVES, STAY AWAY FROM THE SALT WATER, KOLA NUT WILL NOT GIVE YOU IMMUNITY, AND NANO SILVER IS A MARKETING SCAM. WORD TO THE WISE O.[/size]

calebo101: The rot has been built over the time and although kudos must be given to the present government for trying to steer the ship on the right course but i still believe they can do better. And when you look up and think who can do better than this government all you see are retired crooks, thieves and ex generals waiting to devour and plunder the country more. A certain region said they are born to rule and if they do not rule there would be chaos. That region produces nothing and if truth must be told that region should bear the brunt for Nigeria's under development! That region has produced more presidents than the other parts of the nation combined and all they do is just increase the population of Nigeria and not the wealth.

I would advise you that in as much as you love Nigeria and we love Nigeria, please note that Nigeria is not worth dying for, you would die in vain! And yes Nigeria is not the worst country on earth but it is one of the worst because in comparison with countries which are ranked worse off than Nigeria they have reasons to be there, either they are war-torn countries or extremely poor countries.[size=18pt]Nigeria is not war-torn and we are not a poor nation yet we are there in the midst of those nations![/size]

Do you live in Nigeria? Just what exactly constitutes "war torn" in your vocabulary? Nigeria is indeed a war torn country. FG robbing pigs at war with Nigerian citizens, Muslim at war versus Christian, Christian versus Ifa traditionalist, Northern versus Southern, Boko Haram terrorist versus anything that moves and breathes, Governor against Governor, APC versus PDP, OPC versus OPC, Oba versus Oba, Man against Woman, Man versus Man, Woman versus Woman, Friend versus Friend, Madam against house help and anyone who doesn't do her bidding, Ritual Killer against Unlucky Passerby, Employers against Employee, everyone in Nigeria takes out their frustration on those they deem beneath them. Nigeria has no emergency services to speak of, no sanitation to speak of, no electricity to speak of, no sewage processing to speak of, no clean water to speak of, no public health education and clinics to speak of, no decent education to speak of, no employment opportunities to speak of, the list goes on and on. This is indeed a "poor nation" as the FG and private sector have NOT invested and done their duty to create and run proper ministries that give what every nation needs as a basic bedrock and foundation for her citizens to thrive. Corruption is the death of Nigeria, and ignorance is a close second.

Steeewwwwpid ignorant Nigerians and their inability to reason with their F'ing brains. Always running to Fire on the mountain and annointing while shunning common sense, logic, and incapable of showing capacity to act like caring loving human beings.