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Washington - The American woman who was sickened with the dangerous Ebola virus while working with a Christian aid group in Liberia is getting better and is even smiling, her
son said on Tuesday.

Nancy Writebol, aged 60, was
evacuated from Monrovia last week and was wheeled on a stretcher into a special isolation unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

"When she came in on Tuesday last week, we were really concerned that she wasn't going to make it," Jeremy Writebol said on NBC's Today Show.

"To see her wheeled out of the
ambulance and in, I was on the floor sobbing."

Writebol and American doctor Kent Brantly are among the more than 1700 people who have been sickened by the latest Ebola virus outbreak which has killed more than 100 people in West Africa since March.

They both received doses of an
experimental drug for Ebola. Brantly, aged 33, was seen stepping out of the ambulance and walking on his own. Writebol was in poorer condition than
Brantly on arrival, but has since
improved. Her son said he is able to visit her twice a day.

Due to concerns about contagion, he can only look at her through a hospital window, as doctors and nurses treating her do protective gear from head to toe.

"We've seen her get physically better, her eyes brighten up, smiling, even joking a little bit," he said, adding that doctors have told him they are cautiously optimistic about her recovery. Writebol's husband, David, returned to the US from Liberia on Monday.

He remains in isolation, checking his own temperature multiple times a day for signs of fever. Ebola symptoms can emerge two to 21days after exposure to the virus, causing fever, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, and sometimes internal and
external bleeding.

A total of 1 013 people have died and 1848 people have been infected since March, according to the World Health Organization's latest tally on 11
August.
Nearly 55% of victims have died in the outbreak, which has spread to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

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GEJ

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www=world wide web
wap=wireless app protocol

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Once more I find myself, at the
beginning of an article, of reminding my readers that I campaigned on this page in 2010 and 2011 against President Goodluck Jonathan. In fact
in 2009, when Yar’Adua went to Saudi for his last trip on earth, I urged Mrs Turai Yar’Adua to get her husband to resign so that Vice President Jonathan
could take over as President.

This was followed by another article in which I wrote that “two names would not be on the ballot in 2011 – Yar’Adua and Jonathan. But, if the latter [Jonathan] used the power of
incumbency to contest the 2011 elections, disaster will follow.” Here we are in 2014 and Yar’Adua has gone to join his ancestors; Jonathan used all
the advantages of incumbency, plus the “I went to school shoeless” pitch, to garner the votes to win the 2011 elections. Disaster has followed and is
still with us. Why, then, am I disturbed by the insults Nigerians and foreigners heap on the President. My reasons are
simple — respect for the President’s office.

One thing is becoming increasingly clear – the President’s defenders
losing the battle to opponents and detractors. Their puerile attempts, at mounting propaganda, in support of
Jonathan, are failing woefully. Hitler’s Propaganda Chief was partly right when he said that a lie repeated often enough will eventually become accepted as truth. Goebbels, 1897-1945, failed to realize that propaganda which is based mostly on falsehood can only succeed if
government has total control of
communications as the Nazis did
during the Third Reich. With today’s ICT capacities, few
governments in the world today have that sort of control; and there might never be any again. The Jonathan administration controls very little of the communications today and will control even less in the future. So,
instead of trying to subdue the
President’s opponents with half-truths and falsehood, they would be better off sticking to the truth as much as possible. And they should work on widening their circle of supporters.

No government can fail to achieve some results. Those should constitute the core of the campaign in support of the President. Furthermore, they seem to be overlooking the non-partisan opinion leaders who need solid facts in order to defend the President.
Faceless individuals writing under pseudonyms cannot persuade thinking people. Only people with track records can turn the tide. One example would illustrate the point.

By Dele Sobowale

“A leader is best/ When people barely know he exists/ Not so good when people obey and acclaim him/ Worst when they despise him..Lao-tsy, 16th
Century, Chinese. (BOOK OF
QUOTATIONS p 124).

On Wednesday May 28, 2014, I went to visit an elder statesman, from the Niger Delta, in Nigeria. On the same day, several newspapers carried the story about Mrs Patience Jonathan
asking (begging? ordering?) people to stop insulting her husband – the President. My senior friend/Oga took out his iPad and showed me an audio/
visual recording titled Na You One Waka Come. That spoof mercilessly and viciously lampooned Jonathan and his wife. At first, I found the stuff
amusing; then it became annoying and finally alarming.

Suddenly, I came away with the
impression that Nigerians are, once again, over-doing what needs to be done. We have crossed the line from legitimate criticism to unrelenting deliberate insult aimed at the President.

On that day, I sat down with copies of eleven leading Nigerian newspapers and read twelve foreign commentaries
about Nigeria – marking each F; for Jonathan and A; against Jonathan. The result was staggering.

Close to eighty five per cent of them were not only critical but despiteful as well. Jonathan probably has become
the subject of the largest number of defamatory texts published about any human being alive today – most of it emanating from Nigeria. Was this the
man we elected in 2011? How have we suddenly arrived at this situation where we love to defame the man who is the symbol of our sovereignty?

I don’t fully share the argument of Mrs Jonathan that God put her husband there. But, it is partly true. God, I believe gave Jonathan a choice to make in 2011; just as the Almighty
gave Ghandi, the choice in India in 1948 and Mandela, after finishing his first and last term as President of South Africa.

The man who could have been
the first Indian Prime Minister, just for the asking, turned down the offer.

Mandela could also have gone for the second, or even third, term in South Africa. He stopped at one. God provided the choice, Jonathan and Nigerian voters, including many of those now casting aspersions on the man, made him President in 2011 –
despite the slimmest C.V for the most important job in Nigeria. We made him our leader and we should share the blame for the predicament in which we find ourselves.

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