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A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has dumped the opposition All Progressives Congress [APC] and joined the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP].
Mr. Ribadu was the presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] in 2011 and until his defection today considered one of the presidential prospects of the APC in the 2015 presidential election.
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A member of the executive committee of the PDP in Bako, Mr. Ribadu’s ward in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa state, told PREMIUM TIMES that the anti-corruption chief has been registered as a member of the party and given a party membership card.
The source asked not to be named because he was not authorised to disclose the development to journalists.
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A PREMIUM TIMES report had detailed how the PDP leadership led by the party’s national chairman, Adamu Muazu, mounted pressure on Mr. Ribadu to join the party and be its candidate for the October 11 governorship election in Adamawa.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has already released a timetable for an election being organised to replace former Governor Murtala Nyako who was impeached by the State Assembly last month.
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- The suspected reservoirs for Ebola are fruit bats.

- Transmission to humans is thought to originate from infected bats or primates that have become infected by bats.

- Undercooked infected bat and primate (bush) meat transmits the virus to humans.

- Human to human transmission is only achieved by physical contact with a person who is acutely and gravely ill
from the Ebola virus or their body fluids.

- Transmission among humans is almost exclusively among caregiver family members or health care workers tending to the very ill.

- The virus is easily killed by contact with soap, bleach, sunlight, or drying. A washing machine will kill the virus in clothing saturated with infected body fluids.

- A person can incubate the virus without symptoms for 2-21 days, the average being 5-8 days before becoming ill. THEY ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS until they are acutely ill.

- Only when ill does the viral load express itself first in the blood and then in other bodily fluids (to include vomit, feces, urine, breast milk, semen and sweat).

- If you are walking around you are not infectious to others.

- There are documented cases from Kikwit, DRC of an Ebola outbreak in a village that had the custom of children never touching an ill adult. Children living for days in small one room huts with parents who died from Ebola did not become infected.

- You cannot contract Ebola by handling money, buying local bread or swimming in a pool.

- There is no medical reason to stop flights, close borders, restrict travel or close embassies, businesses or schools.

- As always practice good hand washing techniques, but you will not contract Ebola if you do not touch a dying person

- Hotlines for Ebola in Nigeria: 08097979595, 08023169485, 08033086660, 08033065303, 08055281442, 08055329229

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Obi Justina Ejelonu, a nurse who attended to Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American Ebola carrier who flew to Nigeria on his way to attend a conference in Calabar, has died.

According to SaharaReporters a relative of the deceased rang moments ago with the news that she passed away this morning. Ms. Ejelonu had been kept in a quarantine facility in Lagos.
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Until her death, the outspoken nurse was at the center of a campaign to get the Zmapp experimental drugs to Ebola victims in Nigeria. John Okiyi-Kalu started the Internet campaign a few days ago.
By: Olaoluwa Folalu of http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/ebola-kills-another-nigerian-nurse/

Ebola Scare At Orile-Agege General Hospital

There was pandemonium on Tuesday at the Orile-Agege General Hospital, Agege area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, when a patient presented with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, was brought to the hospital.

It was gathered that the patient, who was brought into the hospital in the morning, was bleeding all over his body and health workers such as nurses, doctors and other patients in the hospital fled from him.

It was gathered that the patient had come to the hospital last week complaining of fever, but that he later re-appeared on Tuesday with blood coming out from his body.

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President Jonathan has appointed Mr Danladi Irmiya Kifasi new Head of Service of the Federation after Mallam Bukar Goni Aji retired.

Danladi Kifasi, the new Head of Service of the Federation was, until this appointment, Perm Sec. Min. Of Petroleum Resources.

This was disclosed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, on his twitter handle.

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Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, slumped at about 11.35 am Wednesday while testifying before the Impeachment Panel probing allegations of misconduct leveled against him by the State House of Assembly.

He was rushed out of the court hall at about 11.38 am by his wife, Mrs. Nneka Ada Onyebuchi, his children and some of his aides present for medical attention.
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The Deputy Governor had arrived the court in company of his lawyers Wednesday morning and began his evidence at 9.30 am but three hours five minutes later he reportedly collapsed and his wife and others present rushed forward to rescue him.

One of the defence counsels, Mr. Peter Eze, said the Deputy Governor collapsed five minutes after the Chief of Staff, Mrs. Ifeoma Nwobodo and the state Attorney General, Mr. Anthony Ani, SAN, came into the court.

Eze said that the Deputy Governor was immediately rushed to the hospital while the proceeding was stood down till 2pm.

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Osun Election Result Updates (7) Verified
AS AT 8:02PM CUMULATIVE RESULTS SO FAR FROM OUR OBSERVERS::

APC=262,556 PDP= 186,670 #OsunDecides

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Osun Election: Aregbesola in early lead as voting ends
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state has taken an early lead as the gubernatorial election in the state reaching conclusion.

Cumulative results as at 7.20pm reveals that the incumbent governor leads the pack. His party, the All Progressives Congress has so far recorded 244,846 as against 174,160 scored by his main contender Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. sourced from http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/osun-election-aregbesola-early-lead-voting-ends/

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Osun Election Result Updates (6) Verified:

OSUN DECIDES 2014 UPDATES! VERIFIED LATEST RESULTS!
As 6:47pm CUMULATIVE RESULTS so far:
APC= 235,046 PDP = 167,129
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Ooni of Ife palace: APC 101 PDP 16.
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Ejigbo LG ward 1 unit 002: APC 298 PDP 83 LP 7.
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Salvation Army primary school, Alekuwodo, Ward 5, Unit 5 APC -
136 PDP – 68
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At Modakeke: Bosa: APC 272, PDP 88.
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Salvation Army: APC 399, PDP 98.
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Ogun toro rd: APC 601, PDP 89.
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Ogunsua Palace: APC 250, PDP 10
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Omi-Ogbe: APC 401, PDP 70,
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Saint Francis: APC 386, PDP 83.
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Kajola: APC 401, PDP 70.
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Baptist: APC 247, PDP
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Results at PU 4, Ward 3 in Modakeke (3 ballot boxes):
1. PDP 33 APC 103
2. PDP 73 APC 161
3. PDP 53 APC 126

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Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State is in clear lead in the Osun state governorship election conducted today across the sate.
Figures collated so far through our sources is indicating that Aregbesola is leading in at least 20 local government areas while his opponent, Iyoiola
Omisore of PDP is lagging behind in 4 LGAs.

Results:
1 ATAKUMOSA EAST 68
31136 1346 APC= 768
PDP = 422 LP=13
2 ATAKUMOSA WEST 67
24569 4739 APC= 2486
PDP= 1689 LP=17
3 AYEDAADE 132 51252
8122 APC: 3715
PDP=3548 LP=91
4 AYEDIRE 54 25899
1267 APC= 614 PDP=
450 LP=50
5 BOLUWADURO 74 16844
6995 APC=3327
PDP=3241 LP= 28
6 BORIPE 78 47137
3544 APC=1686
PDP=1485 LP=35
7 EDE NORTH 129 51882
7555 APC=4176 PDP=2817
LP=26
8 EDE SOUTH 68 3179
317 APC=127 PDP =163
LP= 0
9 EGBEDORE 53 33925
2355 APC=1135 PDP=887
LP= 3
10 EJIGBO 93 51623
1638 APC=992 PDP=492
LP= 28
11 IFE CENTRAL 168 95471
7684 APC= 2169 PDP=4964
LP=55
12 IFE EAST 91 81430
1802 APC=889 PDP=755
LP=11
13 IFE NORTH 90 45435
4523 APC=1658 PDP=2137
LP=87
14 IFE SOUTH 122 44555
4599 APC= 1923 PDP=
2117 LP=29
15 IFEDAYO 63 13066
3892 APC=1837 PDP=1833
LP=36
16 IFELODUN 105 57591
2628 APC= more at http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/governor-rauf-aregbesola-osun-state-clear-lead-osun-state-governorship-election-conducted-today-across-sate/

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oskaaay: AS AT 5:07PM CUMULATIVE RESULTS SO FAR FROM OUR OBSERVERS:
APC149,130 PDP103,870

More results: Ilesa West, Ward 4, Unit 3: APC 68, PDP 16; Iragberi Ikotun Aba Olope PDP 98, APC 40, PPA1

full details at http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/507pm-cumulative-results-far-observers/

Osun Election Result Updates (5) as announced at each polling boots:

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Ward 09 Asi Asaba:
PU 1 APC 65 PDP74
PU 2 APC 77 PDP69,
PU 3 APC 46 PDP67
PU 4 APC 108 PDP 83,
PU 5 APC 95 PDP 41
TOTAL: 334 PDP, APC 391

BOLUWADURO:

APC 69; PDP 22; LP 1; OTHERS 97
Poll Unit: 5; IFELODUNG STREET II Ward: ATAOJA ‘B’ LGA: OSOGBO

APC 54; PDP 19; LP 0; OTHERS 45
Poll Unit: ST. JULIUS PRY. SCHOOL II Ward: ISEDO II LGA: ILA
APC 23; PDP 19; LP 0; OTHERS 50
Poll Unit: 33, OJULAREDE ST. (OPEN SPACE) Ward: JAGUN/
JAGUN EDE LGA: EDE
NORTH
APC 55; PDP 61; LP 0; OTHERS 291
Poll Unit: ORANMIYAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL Ward: ILARE 1 LGA: IFE
CENTRAL
APC 25; PDP 25; LP 1; OTHERS 53
Poll Unit: MOLOSANOWO VILLAGE Ward: INISA II/AFAAKE/
AYEGUNLE LGA: EJIGBO
APC 52; PDP 3; LP 4; OTHERS 84
Poll Unit: OPP. OLOMU MOSQUE Ward: EKERIN LGA: OSOGBO
APC 1; PDP 0; LP 0; OTHERS 1
Poll Unit: LASINMI VILLAGE I Ward: ATAOJA ‘A’ LGA: OSOGBO
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APC 55; PDP 48; LP 0; OTHERS 152
Unit: OSORO/AJEGUNLE VILLAGE Ward: GBELERU OBAALA II LGA:
BOLUWADURO
APC 42; PDP 46; LP 1; OTHERS 79
Poll Unit: BUDO KIRIJI VILLAGE Ward: GBELERU OBAALA II LGA:
BOLUWADURO
APC 57; PDP 25; LP 0; OTHERS 39
Poll Unit: ANIYAN Ward: ELERIN ‘B’ LGA: IREPODUN
APC 35; PDP 52; LP 0; OTHERS 0
Poll Unit: L.A. PRY. SCHOOL II Ward: OYI LGA: IFEDAYO
APC 28; PDP 44; LP 1; OTHERS 0
Poll Unit: ELEKIRI BALOGUN OMOLE, ELEKIRI BALOGUN Ward:
GBONGAN RURAL
LGA: AYEDAADE
APC 17; PDP 17; LP 0; OTHERS 43
Poll Unit: OKE MAYE Ward: ISALE ASA IREE LGA:

By: ProwlingEagles Observers at http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/osun-election-result-updates-5/

AS AT 5:07PM CUMULATIVE RESULTS SO FAR FROM OUR OBSERVERS:
APC149,130 PDP103,870

More results: Ilesa West, Ward 4, Unit 3: APC 68, PDP 16; Iragberi Ikotun Aba Olope PDP 98, APC 40, PPA1

full details at http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/507pm-cumulative-results-far-observers/

.....Adejare, Omisore’s running mate defeated at his polling Unit as APC scored 130, PDP 30.

These are the results we have so far..

Unit 006, Elerin Irepodun LGA APC – 66 PDP – 43 LP – 1

—-Former Gov Olagunsoye Oyinlola loses in his polling Unit: APC = 61votes PDP:125 Ward Polling Unit 3

—–Ward 10 Ife Central Unit 3: PDP =140 APC= 62; Unit 8: PDP =95 APC =26

—– Ife Central: Unit 4: PDP 100, APC 64; Unit 11: PDP 34, APC 14; Unit 2: PDP 118, APC 61; Unit 10: PDP 101, APC 41

—–Ward 10 Ife Central Unit 3: PDP =140 APC= 62; Unit 8: PDP =95 APC =26

—–Ward 10 Ife Central Unit 12: PDP=148 = APC 47 ; Unit 4: PDP= 100 APC= 64

- Commercial Ward 2 Ada Boripe APC:104, PDP:42

- Ila Orogun Ward 8 Unit 5 APC:83, PDP:71

- Oshogbo LGC Ward 2 Unit 8 APC:63, PDP:13

- Ila Orogun Iperin Ward 6 Unit 10 Jagun 2 APC:42, PDP:45

- Osogbo LGC Ward 14 Unit 1 APC:108, PDP:20

- Obafemi Awolowo Univerity APC:31, Pdp:28

- Oriade LG Ward 11 PU 4 APC:92, Pdp:42
More from ProwlingEagle Observers at http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/counting-ballots-started-osogbo-polling-units-ilesha/

CUMULATIVE RESULTS SO FAR FROM OUR OBSERVERS::

APC= 55,521
PDP= 41,151
more at http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/osun-election-cumulative-results-so-far-from-prowlingeagles-observers/

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BAMIDELE Francis Aturu, who died, July 9, 2014, abandoned a career in the military to train as scientist. Precluded from public service by an audacious act of objection to military dictatorship, he discovered a vocation as arguably the foremost public interest advocate of his generation in Nigeria.

A lawyer and a pastor, he was also former student leader and prisoner of conscience. He was 49.

The son of Felix Aturu, a Police Officer, ‘Dele or BF to his close associates, was born in October 1964, a mere four years after Nigeria’s Independence. In those days, the Police was a very respectable institution. Working in it also meant frequent postings around the country. As Felix Aturu moved around on transfer from one duty post to another, so did his wife, Felicia, and their young family. This opportunity to live in different parts of Nigeria would give BF a deeply rooted and informed sense of the country.
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Pan Nigerian outlook

BF’s pan-Nigerian outlook would be deepened by his years of leadership in the student movement. At the Adeyemi College of Education, in Ondo, where he took his first degree in Physics education, BF was elected President of the Students Union and emerged as one of the leading young voices against military rule in Nigeria at a time when it was quite dangerous to do such things. Yet, in 1987, he graduated with a first class degree and as the best student from the college.

Armed with this qualification, BF undertook his compulsory National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, as a physics teacher at the Federal Government College, Minna, Niger State, where he earned a reputation as an exceptionally able, committed, and caring teacher. The management of the NYSC adjudged BF as the best member of the NYSC 1987/88 service cohort in Niger State. This assessment was considered worthy of recognition by the then military administration. Called upon to receive this recognition from the Military Governor at the passing out of his NYSC cohort in 1988, BF declined to shake the hands of the Governor as an act of conscientious objection to military rule.

The Military Governor in question was Lawan Gwadabe, a protégé of then Military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida, who also came from Niger State. The unprecedented audacity of this act would put BF in the cross hairs of successive military regimes. For denouncing military rule, to begin with, the NYSC denied BF his “discharge certificate”. As one of the most qualified physic teachers in the country, BF was well qualified for the career he loved as a teacher. But, an NYSC discharge certificate is a requirement for employment in the public service which had the best schools in the country then. The only jobs available were dead-end teaching jobs in private schools.

Emerging community

With the onset of official persecution following his rejection of military rule, BF naturally gravitated towards an emerging community of protest in Lagos, which was dominated by some very charismatic lawyers, including then president of the Nigerian Bar, Alao Aka Basorun, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, and Kanmi Isola-Osobu, all now of blessed memory. They would be complemented by two emerging names, Olisa Agbakoba, himself a future president of the Nigerian Bar, and Ayo Obe. This period also gave birth to a young advocacy community for human rights pioneered by the Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, in 1987, closely followed by the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, in 1989, and the Constitutional Rights Project, CRP, in 1990.
Culled (more at) from http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/bamidele-francis-aturu-1964-2014/

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Nigeria Government, according to Channels TV news has announced that two more Nigerians have been confirmed to have contacted the Ebola virus disease.

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So far, three Nigerians have contacted the Ebola virus disease, and health experts say case fatality for Nigeria is 28.6%.

A total of 139 contacts have been put on surveillance.

More details to follow at http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/tag/ebola-updates/

NIGERIA NATIONAL STATEMENT

U.S-AFRICAN LEADERS SUMMIT

WASHINGTON, DC, 5-6 AUGUST 2014

We thank President Barrack Obama for convening the first-ever U.S-African Leaders Summit. This worthwhile initiative is a credit to his commitment to building and sustaining collaborative ties between the United States and Africa.

2. Being the first Summit level dialogue of its kind, there is understandable excitement about what the Governments of the United States and African countries can achieve working together on shared goals and priorities. Indeed, this Summit is well-timed, given the range of complex challenges confronting Africa at the present time.

3. Although there are country-specific priorities, the crises facing Africa are largely similar and cut across countries. These challenges are multifaceted. At their root are poverty, security, governance, infrastructure and capacity issues. It is apparent that many African countries, including mine, are not going to meet all the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Overcoming the various challenges on the road to meeting MDG targets and the post-2015 SDGs will require strengthened cooperation with the United States and other development partners.

4. We believe that poor governance is a major cause of conflict in Africa. This is often exacerbated by closed political processes in several of our countries. We would therefore, do well to scale up efforts to nurture viable and capable States in our continent. We must have States that are able to provide security and ensure the equitable distribution of public goods and services. Africa must also institutionalize the principles of political pluralism, good governance and respect for human rights.

5. We believe that a future of peace, stability and democracy would be greatly rewarding for the continent. Only in a democracy can Africa’s ethnic, cultural and religious diversities find mutual accommodation and the freedom and opportunities that come with it.

6. Across Africa, the democratic process is on the move even though it has taken different turns and trajectories, with countries recording different levels of progress. On the whole, elections have become more regular even as we recognise that work remains to be done to deepen the democratic culture and strengthen its institutions across Africa.

7. Democracy, stability and prosperity are essential elements of Africa’s nation building process requiring the support of the international community. We believe the U.S can support Africa’s democratic rebirth, stability and creation of opportunities for millions across the continent.

8. The future belongs to our youth. The theme of this Summit, “Investing in the Next Generation”, is as appropriate as it is a call to action. President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), complements Africa’s efforts to make the youth the centrepiece of our development agenda.

9. As the continent with the largest percentage of youth, to meet the yearnings and aspirations of our growing youth population, we have to continue to expand our economies, create wealth and employment opportunities. Africa cannot achieve this by depending on foreign aid from development partners, which has been declining in recent years. What Africa needs is real access to markets in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Department (OECD) countries. African countries must, however, start with expanding intra-regional trade. In the global trade, Africa will require transiting from exporting raw materials and primary commodities to higher value finished and semi finished products.

10. To achieve this, policy reforms and economic diversification are important. That is why, in Nigeria, we embarked on far-reaching reforms in the Power, Agriculture and Industrial sectors, which aim at attracting private sector investments, diversifying our economy and building of our productive capacity. Africa needs to intensify its efforts on drivers for economic growth including human capital development, regional and global trade integration and its business environment. In this quest, Africa needs assistance in developing high value non-primary commodities to fully take advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Africa needs increased infrastructure and related services, including energy, transport, information and communication technology. In this regard, we welcome President Obama’s Power Africa Initiative which was launched in 2013. It is our hope that the Initiative will have wider coverage.

11. In addition to intra-State conflicts, several African countries, including Nigeria, are now challenged by terrorism and violent extremism. For several countries in the continent, terrorism has become a real threat to social progress, peace and security. Terrorism also threatens the continent’s state system and democracies.

12. The violent and criminal activities of Boko Haram in my country have captured the world’s attention. This has been especially so since the terrorist group abducted some girls from their school dormitory in the North-Eastern Nigeria in April. This vile act by Boko Haram in Nigeria typifies a dangerous trend by insurgent groups in the continent’s fragile security environment.

13. Boko Haram is more than a domestic terrorist group. The group is a threat to regional peace and security. This much was affirmed by the Special Summit on Security in Nigeria, hosted by President Francoise Hollande in Paris in May, 2014. We now know that this insurgent group has grown into the Nigerian wing of Al-Qaeda with its international network linking terrorist groups in the Sahel and Mali and Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Nigeria may be the epicentre of Boko Haram terrorist activities at the moment, but its affiliation with international terrorist networks, dramatically increases its capacity and reach beyond Nigeria’s borders.

14. President Obama has described Boko Haram “as one of the most dangerous regional terrorist organisations in the world.” Boko Haram kills anyone irrespective of gender, religion and age. It destroys everything in its sight. Since 2009, this terrorist group has killed over 12,000 Nigerians, and continues to maim many more as well as burn and raze down communities, places of worship, public institutions and infrastructure.

15. Nigeria is doing everything possible to combat Boko Haram and violent extremism. While we continue to enhance our intelligence and military capacities, we are, at the same time, working on political solutions by engaging State Governments and local communities. We are seeking economic solutions through various economic empowerment and job creation programmes. We are creating economic opportunities and addressing the root causes of youth restiveness.
More at source http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/nigerian-statement-delivered-president-jonathan-us-africa-summit/

One of the Nigerian nurses who treated late Liberian Ebola patient, Patrick Sawyer, is dead.

The‎ nurse who works with the First Foundation Hospital, Lagos was one of the medical personnel who treated the Liberian.

Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, who confirmed this development this morning said, the nurse died on Tuesday.

He also revealed that seven other persons are down with the disease in Nigeria.

More updates on Ebola as it breaks from source at http://prowlingeagles.com/blog/tag/ebola-updates/

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