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tunbebes:
Gd mrng y'all. From d look of tinz in Batch C thread,I don't think runs will work o! I mean Lagos or Abj runs...its scary tho.

Why u talk so? Some people still did it, i mean ppl am aware of

Why u talk so? Some people still did it, i mean ppl am aware of

Good morning house, pls when is the time table for batch A coming out cos guys no fit wait again o after my Dept don f*ck my style up for batch C, just hope its for d better...

Hello everyone.. I think this trend is full of wounded soldiers, am one of them though, because of my Dept hv missed C14.. but I think we should create a group on Facebook as it was done by B C14 it gonna be Fun... Hope am welcome here.... Batch A15 all d way...reps CRUTECH

Reports filtering into FNN states that
foremost Nigerian Private University,
Covenant University, Ota as of today
effected the expulsion of 10 female
students.
Enquirer into this disciplinary action
disclosed that the female students were
suspended for participating in the
“National No Bra day” in a bid to create
awareness for Breast cancer.
The siege which took place yesterday saw
females across the world going about
their normal business of the day without
putting on their usual undergarments,
also created a buzz in the internet and
social media sites like Facebook, Twitter
and Instagram with trending pictures of
girls showing their outfits without bra
and in some cases nude pics proving
their support to the cause with hashtags
like #NoBraDay #NoBraDay14 #Oct13
amongst others.
As with the case of Covenant University
who had always had strict laws with
regards to indecent dressing, the said
girls attended classes without their bras,
revealing the shape and size of their
bosom and teats. And were subsequently
reported to the school authorities by
their lecturers who claimed the girls
distracted them and the male students in
class whom are not used to seeing such,
hence the lecture of the day wasn’t
delivered as usual because of lack of
concentration.
Although we at FNN did not see the
outfits of the students, we believe this
might be too severe a punishment for
participating in a social cause. However
the disciplinary committee has told the
girls to come dressed in the said “no bra”
attire to appeal their expulsion, citing
that since the university students are not
allowed to use mobile phones, they were
no selfies or any pictorial evidence of
their outfits from yesterday to use for the
appeal.

The founder and Chief Executive Officer
of the popular social networking website,
Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife,
Priscilla Chan, have donated N4bn to
fight the Ebola Virus Disease.
Making the announcement on his
Facebook page, Zuckerberg said they
wanted to stop the epidemic before it got
out of control to become a bigger, and
more expensive, global issue to fight, like
the HIV.
He said, “Priscilla and I are donating $
25m to the Centres for Disease Control
Foundation to help fight Ebola. The
epidemic is at a critical turning point. It
has infected 8,400 people so far, but it is
spreading very quickly and projections
suggest it could infect one million people
or more over the next several months if
not addressed.
“We need to get Ebola under control in
the near term so that it doesn’t spread
further and become a long term global
health crisis that we end up fighting for
decades at large scale, like HIV or polio.
“We believe our grant is the quickest way
to empower the CDC and the experts in
this field to prevent this outcome. Grants
like this directly help the frontline
responders in their heroic work. These
people are on the ground setting up care
centres, training local staff, identifying
Ebola cases and much more. We are
hopeful this will help save lives and get
this outbreak under control.”


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I think say na only me de reason dis matter o..all dis nonsense wer wizkid dem de sing, just corrupting our young ones.... Respect to #2baba

Nairaland una no go kill person..

The Blues for Live...I de believe una die...2 Goals in less than 3mins..everton una go hear am...#Team Chelsea

Don't mind them 2.2 no be beans o, they are just saying Trash, so many factor can make one not to focus in school Coupled with the series of strike, when I was in school, a very brilliant colleague of mine had a cgpa of 1.9 in his 3rd year with so many carry overs due to Emotional and financial problems but from his 4th year to year 5 all the courses he scores nothing less than a B. He was now battling to graduate with 2.2, I was with him when he wrote his final year project, but when submitting it to the department all d lecturers concluded that someone else wrote it for him cause the work was too good, there was were to correct.. KEY POINT not everyone that come out with a low grade are dull, there are so many factors that hinder their success.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday
congratulated the nation’s Under-20 women’s
football team, the Falconets, for winning
silver at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup
in Canada .
That was just as his wife, Patience, praised
the gallant fight put up by the players in their
final match against Germany .
In a statement by his Special Adviser on
Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the
President said despite their loss to their
German counterparts in the final of the
tournament, he looked forward to honouring
the players with a reception at the
Presidential Villa on their return from
Canada .
He said all Nigerians remained proud of the
skilful, highly spirited and patriotic
performance the players put up throughout
the tournament.
The statement read, “On behalf of himself,
the Federal Government and the people of
Nigeria , President Goodluck Jonathan
congratulates Nigeria ’s under-20 women’s
football team, the Falconets for winning the
silver medal at the just concluded FIFA
Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Canada .
“President Jonathan assures the Falconets
that despite their loss in extra time to their
German counterparts in yesterday’s very
keenly contested final, all Nigerians remain
proud of the skillful, highly spirited and
patriotic performance they put up throughout
the tournament.
“The President applauds the Falconets who
outplayed the Germans for long periods in the
final, and also had greater ball possession
and a higher number of goal attempts, for
equalling Nigeria ’s best-ever finish in the
tournament, and, in Asisat Oshoala,
producing this year’s top scorer and Most
Valuable Player.
“President Jonathan who stayed awake till
0300 hours (local time in Germany) to watch
the match with his aides as he promised the
girls during his chat with the team on
Saturday, believes that the Falconets have
shown the world that with their innate skills,
strength, resilience and determination, they
can remain a great force in women’s football
globally for many years to come.
“The President assures the Falconets and
their trainers that they will continue to receive
all the support and encouragement they
require from the Federal Government to fully
actualise their world-beating potential.
“He looks forward to honouring the team with
a reception at the Presidential Villa on their
return from Canada .”
Mrs. Jonathan in a statement by her media
assistant, Ayo Adewuyi, said the girls had
made Nigerian women proud by exhibiting an
unprecedented patriotic zeal and a great
determination resisting the German
onslaught.


www.punchng.com/sports/jonathan-to-host-falconets-for-clinching-silver/

Fresh hope appears in the horizon for Ebola
patients as Japan on Monday expressed its
readiness to provide its anti-influenza drug as
treatment for the deadly virus.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide
Suga, made the offer hours after a group of
scientist in the United Kingdom said it had
discovered that the largest outbreak of the
Ebola Virus Disease was caused by an
infected fruit bat that bit a toddler.
Briefing journalists in Tokyo on Monday,
Suga said Japan was ready to offer the drug,
Favipiravir, which was developed by Toyama
Chemical, a subsidiary of Fujifilm, any time
the World Health Organisation requested it.
Approved by the Japanese health ministry in
March, Favipiravir is a tablet developed for
the treatment of novel and re-emerging
influenza viruses.
Suga, according to the Agence France
Presse, said Japan was waiting for WHO’s
decision on further details over the use of
untested drugs.
He however said that “in case of an
emergency, Japan may respond to individual
requests before any further decision by the
WHO.”
The spokesperson for the company, Takao
Aoki, said Fujifilm had initiated talks with the
United States on how the drug could be
adopted in treating EVD.
He said, “Fujifilm is in talks with the US Food
and Drug Administration on clinical testing of
the drug in treating Ebola, The company has
Favipiravir stock for more than 20,000
patients. Ebola and influenza viruses are the
same type and theoretically similar effects
can be expected on Ebola,” he said.
It was however not known as of Thursday
last week if Favipiravir is the drug the Federal
Ministry of Health had said it had requested
from a foreign country.
The ministry which turned down a trial drug,
Nano Silver, had applied for ZMapp which
was administered on two US aid workers who
contracted the virus in Liberia.
The two were discharged last Thursday, a
few days after Washington said it did not
have enough XMapp to send to countries in
need of it.
ZMapp fails Liberian doctor
However, a Liberian doctor , Abraham
Borbor, has died despite taking ZMapp,
according to a statement by the Liberia’s
information minister, Lewis Brown.
Borbor was one of three doctors in Liberia
who had been given ZMapp and was showing
signs of recovery.
“Borbor was showing signs of improvement
but on Sunday, he took a turn for the worse,”
Brown told the British Broadcasting
Corporation.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government on
Monday reversed the number of confirmed
EVD cases in Nigeria from 14 to 13.
Health Minister, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu,
said while briefing journalists in Abuja that
the development followed the outcome of a
further confirmation test conducted on the
14th case, which turned out to be negative.
He also said another patient in the isolation
centre in Lagos had after receiving treatment
tested negative.
The patient, according to him, will be
dicharged before Wednesday.
He said the development would bring from
four to two, the number of patients still in the
isolation ward.
The minister added that the number of deaths
recorded so far in the country as a result of
the disease still remained five, including the
Late Patrick Sawyer, who brought the EVD to
Nigeria from Liberia.
Chukwu said, “We have been able to manage
and discharge five persons who had tested
positive to the deadly virus, while the sixth
person would be dicharged within the next 48
hours.
“For each case that tested negative, we run
further confirmatory tests to make sure that
anybody that is labelled as EVD victim, is
truly having the disease.
“The 14th case has turned out to be negative
in terms of anaemia and symptoms, so that
has now reversed number of EVD cases in
Nigeria from 14 to 13 and that includes the
index case (Sawyer).
“As of today (Monday), we have three
patients receiving treatment in the isolation
ward in Lagos but certainly, before
Wednesday, one of them would be
discharged because he has tested negative
and we are now concluding his discharge
process.”
The ministry also denied reports (The
PUNCH not included) which claimed that the
younger sister of the late Dr. Stella
Adadevoh, had tested positive to the EVD.
The minister’s Special Adviser on Media and
Communications, Dan Nwomeh, said on
Monday that no new patient had been
admitted into the treatment centre in Lagos.
He said, “We are not aware of that
development, but to avoid any confusion,
Minister of Health reiterates that he has the
sole authority to announce confirmed and
discharged EVD cases.
“Any doubtful information on the outbreak of
EVD should be verified from the office of the
minister , we are on all social media
platforms.”
A group of 17 UK-based European and
African scientists have found out that the
largest outbreak of the EVD was caused by
an infected fruit bats that bit a toddler.
The tropical disease researchers, ecologists
and anthropologists had spent three weeks
investigating the outbreak of the disease in
Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Ivory Coast.
According to the Daily Mail, the scientists
captured some bats and other creatures near
the village of Meliandoua in Guinea, where
the present epidemic began last year in
December.
According to the scientists, the toddler, who
was bitten by a fruit bat passed the infection
on to his mother and both died within a week.
The disease was then spread far and wide by
mourners who attended their funeral.
Scientists have long believed that bats are
the main carriers for the disease but it is rare
for them to pass it on to man.
Most of the previous outbreaks have been
caused by meat from dead infected animals
collected by hunters who then sell it on.
Fruit bats, however, are widely eaten in some
rural areas of West Africa – either smoked,
grilled or in a spicy soup.
The team led by epidemiologist Fabian
Leendertz, a disease ecologist at the Robert
Koch Institute in Berlin, are expected to
publish their results in a major journal soon.
Initial research believed that a new strain of
Ebola had emerged in West Africa but
according to Herr Leendertz, the strain of the
disease is one related to Zaire ebolavirus,
identified more than 10 years ago in the
Congo.


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Nigerian Government na push and start, if u don't push them sorry na there u go remain...at last I made front page..

The Federal Government has paid the eight
months allowances it owed the over 322
Nigerian students on the Bilateral Educational
Agreement scholarship in Russia.
The PUNCH had exclusively reported on
Tuesday that the failure by the Federal
Government to pay the allowances of the
students had forced them into begging and
resorting to illegal jobs, which put them at
risk of deportation in Russia.
Following the report, our correspondent
gathered on Thursday that the students had
since started getting credit alerts on their
respective bank accounts.
One of the affected students, Moyosore
Ojuri, who is in her second year studying
Metallurgical Engineering at the Volgograd
State Technical University, Russia, told our
correspondent on the telephone that the sum
of $4,450 had been paid into her bank
account.
The money, she explained, included $4,000
meant for her stipends from January to
August; $200 for annual medicals and health
insurance, and $250 covering her annual
protective clothing.
Ojuri said she hoped that the Federal
Government would begin paying them their
allowances as at when due and save them
from undue hardships.
“Before now, the Federal Government owed
us from January to August. But now they
have paid us everything. I can pay my
accumulated debts and I am sure that I won’t
be sent packing from the hostel over unpaid
accommodation fees,” she said.
One of the student leaders, Akinola
Akindamola, a post-graduate student of the
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Volgograd State Technical University,
Russia, stated that he and other student
leaders were going round to ensure that all of
them, especially the new students, had
received their allowances.
Akindamola, who is the President of the
Senate Committee of Association of Nigerian
Scholarship Students in Russia, said, “The
payment of the money is in process and I am
confident that by the end of today, we would
all have been paid. The least problem we
want now is to be financially handicapped.
We appreciate the Federal Government for
their prompt response.”
When contacted, the Director, Press and
Public Relations, Federal Ministry of
Education, Abuja, Mr. Olu Lipede, confirmed
that the Federal Government had paid the
students all their entitlements.


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Chai! See wetin dat MAD Patrick sawyer don cause us.. Dr is God o!

Hello House, dr is good news for those of u wer won serve for Akwa Ibom. The state Governor don increase dia allawi 4rm 6k to 10k...how abt that?

@ Alayormii u don enter one chance o.. No worry in two months time u go join our ship, just follow up make dem send ur name again. C14 all d way!

Those people dia head no correct. Period!

President Goodluck Jonathan will inaugurate
a gas processing plant with 69-kilometre
pipeline at Uquo, Esit Eket Local Government
Area, Akwa Ibom State, on Thursday.
A statement by the Commissioner for
Information and Communications, Mr.
Aniekan Umanah, on Tuesday, said the gas
plant was constructed under a public-private
partnership arrangement between Septa
Energy and the Akwa Ibom State
Government.
Umanah added that the President, who
coming to the state on an official visit, would
also inaugurate the Goodluck Boulevard on
Ring Road III in Uyo.
According to the commissioner, the President
is also expected to perform the ground-
breaking of the $1.8bn methanol plant at
Ibeno; inspect the Uyo-Ikot Ekpene-Aba
federal road being undertaken by the state
government; inspect the first suspended
bridge in the state currently under
construction in Abak; and thereafter inspect
the 30,000 capacity Ibom International
Stadium, Uyo, for which he laid the
foundation stone in October 2012.
He stated that during Jonathan’s visit to
Akwa Ibom in October 2012, he inaugurated
the new digital governor’s office alongside
other completed projects by the Governor
Goodswill Akpabio administration.
Umanah added that the President would also
meet with a cross section ofAkwa Ibom
indigenes before departing for Abuja.


www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/jonathan-to-inaugurate-gas-plant-in-aibom/

The problem we have in this country is that we don't believe in our self, Nigerians are very brilliant and intelligent people, have we ever wondered why we Nigerians do better outside this country? The problem is that our Government are not ready to invest in Education n research, all we need do is to focus.. I pray they all recover in JESUS name Amen!

Earlier today, the Spanish government
confirmed that a 75 year old Spanish Catholic
priest, Miguel Pajares, who got infected with
Ebola while working in Liberia will be treated
with the experimental drug called ZMapp ..
The drug arrived today from the US for use at
the Madrid’s La Paz-Carlos III hospital where
he is in isolation..
Meanwhile,Juliet Ibrahim took to her
instagram page to air her displeasure.
Remember,Nigeria’s request for the drug was
turned down by the US.
And according to WHO,the Vaccine may only
be ready in 2015.
Read what she said below
: “Nigeria asked for the Zmapp drug and was
refused the drug! Now Spanish priest who is
now back home safely yet suffering from
Ebola;
Spanish government request for the exact
same drug and they are getting the drug to
cure him! Africans! Africans! Africans! I said
der is more to dis dat meets d eye! Educate
urselves and remember right now prevention
is better than cure! This is no time for
ignorance to take over us if our leaders are
joking with this let’s not joke about this.
#ebolaawareness it is real. God be with us
all”

The man (Trump) is right, our government would have stoped all fights from those affected countries, but see now we are regreating it. Prevention they say is better than cure.. Don't be surprise Ghana stoped flights from Nigeria... God help us all!

Some parents and guardians took to the
streets of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on
Saturday to protest against the posting of
their children and wards to the northern part
of the country by the National Youth Service
Corps.
The protesters disrupted business activities
as they marched through the popular
Yenagoa-Mbiama Road, among other roads.
They stopped by the office of The PUNCH in
Yenagoa and explained to our correspondent
that they were apprehensive that their
children were going on a mission of no return.
The protesters, who displayed placards with
the inscriptions, “The North is not safe; We
cannot allow our children to be roasted; Post
our children to the South; and The corpses of
children killed in the past have yet to be
seen,” among others, vowed to reject the
posting.
They said since Boko Haram started
unleashing mayhem on the country,
particularly in the northern part, their youths
had been murdered in cold blood.
They said they feared that the insurgents
were on the loose, adding that the protest
was to forestall calamities for their children.
The protesting parents asked the NYSC to
review the posting without hesitation.
The protesters, who vowed that they would
not stop their protest until the review of the
posting, said they would not allow their
children to be wasted like animals by Boko
Haram.
The protest was led by the National Women
Leader, United for Goodluck Success
Campaign, Mrs. Favour Alafuro.
Alafuro said it was curious that over 95 per
cent of youths, who graduated from the state-
owned Niger Delta University, were posted to
the North.
Alafuro said, “It is said that security is
everybody’s business. I want to remind
Nigerians that a few years ago, some of the
Niger Delta youths sent to the North were
killed in cold blood. Up till now, many corpses
have not been found.
“The over 200 Chibok girls abducted by Boko
Haram, have yet to be found. Boko Haram
has wreaked havoc in many states. We feel
that the posting is a trap to kill our children.
“We are saying no, our children are not going.
If it is safe, we have no reason to object to
the posting. Unfortunately, the North,
including the Federal Capital Territory is
unsafe.”
She called on other parents in the country to
put pressure on the NYSC to review the
posting.
She said she would only allow her two
children ─ a boy and a girl ─ to go to the
South and not any part of the North.
“Our children, who finished at NDU, were
sent to Yobe, Adamawa, Borno, Kaduna and
other volatile areas. We (the parents) have
resolved to meet with the coordinator of
NYSC in the state to post our children and
wards to safe areas and not to the North. I
have two children posted to the North and I
do not want to lose them,” Alafuro said.
Mr. Francis Johnson, whose son was posted
to Yobe State, said he would not go.
Johnson said, “We know that the NYSC issue
is to bring unity to the country, but because
of grave security issues in the North, I won’t
allow my child to go.
“I dont want him to be slaughtered like an
animal.”
Another protester, Pere Otubo, maintained
she would not allow her daughter to go on her
posting to the North.
Otubo, whose daughter was posted to
Adamawa State, said Adamawa was one of
the hotbeds of insurgency in Nigeria.
She stated, “It is not that I am not patriotic.
The insecurity situation in the North has sent
panic to all parents. I implore the relevant
authorities to review the posting.”

Pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to
invest in vaccines and research to cure the
deadly Ebola disease because it is only
killing Africans, a leading UK doctor has
claimed.
The President of the UK Faculty of Public
Health, Prof. John Ashton, has claimed no
cure for the disease has been discovered
because it so far has only affected powerless
minorities.
He likened the response to that of Aids, for
which treatments were developed only when
it started affecting Western countries.
The current Ebola outbreak – which has no
vaccine, no cure and kills up to 90 per cent of
victims – is currently ravaging the West
African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone,
Nigeria and Liberia.
There have been 729 deaths from 1,329
confirmed cases of Ebola in this year’s
epidemic – making it the largest Ebola
outbreak in history.
Writingin the Independent on Sunday , Prof.
Ashton said: ‘We must respond to this
emergency as if it was in Kensington,
Chelsea, and Westminster.
‘We must also tackle the scandal of the
unwillingness of the pharmaceutical industry
to invest in research to produce treatments
and vaccines, something they refuse to do
because the numbers involved are, in their
terms, so small and don’t justify the
investment.
‘This is the moral bankruptcy of capitalism
acting in the absence of an ethical and social
framework.’
WHO Director-General, Margaret Chan, has
also warned the virus is currently moving
faster than efforts to control it.
She said, ‘This outbreak is moving faster
than our efforts to control it. If the situation
continues to deteriorate, the consequences
can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives,
severe socioeconomic disruption and a high
risk of spread to other countries.’
Speaking at a meeting in Guinea’s capital,
Conakry, she told the presidents of Guinea,
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast that the
virus could be stopped.
But she said that cultural practices such as
traditional burials were a significant cause of
its spread.
Meanwhile, Emirates, the Mideast’s largest
airline, said today it had halted flights to
Guinea because of concerns about the
spread of the Ebola virus.

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Don't eat this don't eat that... So wetin person go come de chop? Me I tire o!

Helo House wats happening? Any updates? missd out for a while now..Nov 4th here we cum

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Tragedy struck at the Onikolobo area of
Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday when a
33-year-old man, Oluwatosin Otaiku, stabbed
himself to death after his fiancee, Olaogun
Oluwatoyin, discontinued the relationship.
PUNCH Metro gathered that Otaiku killed
himself after his woman told him she was no
longer interested in the relationship.
After the girlfriend made a U-turn, the
deceased was said to have become worried,
and this made neighbours, who were aware of
the development, to intervene. Efforts were
made to reconcile them.
On one of such occasions, an eyewitness
said the duo was invited to discuss in privacy
inside a shop at Safari junction in Onikolobo.
Otaiku was said to have hid a knife in his
pocket, prepared to end it all if there was no
truce.
It was further gathered that Olaogun stood
her ground and maintained that she could not
continue with the relationship.
On hearing this unfavourable verdict, the
deceased reportedly brought out the knife
from his pocket which made Olaogun to run
out of the shop, thinking she was the target.
Olaogun was said to have immediately
alerted neighbours who rushed into the shop
and met the deceased stabbing himself.
He was said to have been rushed to the
Mercy Hospital in the Panseke area of
Abeokuta.
From there, he was referred to the Federal
Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, also in Abeokuta,
but he died on the way to the hospital.
The case was said to have been reported at
the Adigbe Police Division and policemen
were sent to the scene for investigation.
While they took the remains of Otaiku to the
Ijaye General Hospital mortuary, three other
people were whisked away in a Hilux Van
marked, NPF 7092 C.
The State Police Public Relations Officer,
Muyiwa Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of
Police, confirmed the incident, adding that the
police were still holding on to Otaiku’s
remains until a postmortem examination
would be carried out.
Adejobi explained that the command was still
examining the statements by the suspects
and eyewitnesses.
He said, “The lady is still with us, she is still
our suspect for now until we carry out a
proper investigation on the corpse.
“We need some time to study the statements,
but the expert’s opinion is to carry out a
postmortem on the body which we are going
to do. I can assure you that the command will
do the needful in order to get to the root of the
incident.”

Abeg help me tell am o! Wat den is love? Those things exist before we wer even born

The World Health Organisation on Friday
warned West African countries, which share
boundaries with countries hit by the Ebola
epidemic to prepare for the possible arrival of
travellers carrying the deadly virus.
Those already hit by the pandemic are Mali,
Ivory Coast, Senegal and Guinea Bissau.
An online news agency, Reuters, reported on
Friday that the outbreak persisted especially
in forested areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone and
Liberia, while its spread was being fuelled by
unsafe burial practices that infect relatives
handling bodies.
A WHO medical officer, Dr. Pierre Formenty,
who addressed journalists in Geneva,
Switszerland, said, “We want other countries
in West Africa to be ready – bordering
countries, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Guinea
Bissau – to prepare themselves in case
people affected with the disease may be also
travelling.”
The report said the United Nations health
organisation had recorded 635 infections,
including 399 deaths, in Guinea, Sierra Leone
and Liberia since the outbreak began in
February.
The report quoted Formenty as saying some
of the sick had travelled to get medical
treatment, spreading the disease to big cities
such as the Guinea capital, Conakry and the
Liberian capital, Monrovia.
“Roads exist in all of West Africa. There are
roads going to Bamako, going to Abidjan,
going to Dakar,” the WHO officer added.
Reuters reported that Ebola causes vomiting
and diarrhoea, impairs kidney and liver
function and may cause internal and external
bleeding.
“It kills up to 90 per cent of those infected. It
is spread by close contact with the blood,
body fluids and tissues of infected people or
high-risk animals such as monkeys. The
incubation period is from 2 to 21 days and
there is no treatment or vaccine,” the report
said.

Covenant University graduate 82 students
with 1st Class
Eighty two students of the Covenant
University, Ota, Ogun, on Friday bagged first
class degrees at its 2013/12014 convocation.
The Chancellor of the University, Dr David
Oyedepo, disclosed this at the 9th
convocation and the conferment of honorary
doctorate degrees and presentation of prizes
to deserving students and eminent citizens.
NAN reports that 1,429 students comprising
1,334 undergraduates and 95 post graduates
received various degrees during the
convocation.
In addition to the 82 students that bagged first
class honours, 594 bagged second class
upper division honours, 531 bagged second
class lower division honours while 127
bagged third class honours.
Oyedepo said that the institution in its 12
years of existence had maintained a culture
of excellence in education and this had
produced significant results.
He said the institution had received
recognitions nationally and internationally.
He said that for two years running, first class
graduates of the institution emerged tops in
the Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme
for Innovation and Development (PRESSID)
in Nigeria (2013 and 2014).
“Our graduates are recognised all over the
world while most of them have gained
postgraduate admissions to world-class
universities where they stamped their
indelible footprints in the academia and the
world,” he said.
He urged the Federal Government to partner
with the nation’s universities to provide
solution to the security challenges in the
country.
He said that the only way the Nigerian
universities could be relevant in solving
societal problems was to continue to carry
out researches that would resolve political
and cultural challenges.
Prof. Chance Ayo, the Vice Chancellor of the
institution said that the university was
committed to producing quality graduates for
accelerated national development.