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Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Police Arrested Celestial Pastor For Rape.

A 23-year old self-professed Celestial Church prophet, Adewale

There was confusion at the Arrival Hall of the Murtala Muhammed

US actor and comedian Robin Williams has been found dead, aged 63, in an apparent suicide.

Michael Brown Shooting In US: Calm Returns After Rioting.

The FBI has officially opened an investigation into the shooting of a teenager by a police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson,

Iraq's president has asked the deputy speaker of parliament, Haider al-Abadi, to form a new government.

Nigeria on Monday confirmed a new case of Ebola in the financial capital Lagos, bringing the total number of people in the country with the virus to 10.
Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the latest confirmed case was a female nurse who came into contact with a Liberian-American man, Patrick Sawyer, who died of Ebola in a Lagos hospital on July 25.

Professor Jacob Festus Adeniyi Ajayi, commonly known as J. F. Ade Ajayi, a former VC of Unilag Lagos died on Saturday at University Teaching Hospital Ibadan.

A crisis so dire that families are fleeing to Syria. A militant threat so strong that U.S. forces are striking from the sky. And political strife so tense that it could derail hopes for government stability.

As Iraq's political and humanitarian crises escalate at the same time, foreign countries are getting more deeply involved. Here's where things stand.

Breaking News: Governor Rauf Aregbesola Wins Osun State Election In Nigeria.

In what is term as a keenly contested election today 9th of August,

Former Nigeria Head of State, Olusegun Obasanjo is bereaved, he lost the younger brother to his late wife and former First Lady, Mrs Stella Obasanjo, Henry Abebe.

He died in the early hours of Friday August 8 at a hospital in Abuja, after a

battle with Liver Cirrhosis, a source close to the family has revealed.

Cirrhosis is a slowly progressing disease in which healthy liver tissue is replaced with scar tissue, eventually preventing the liver from functioning properly. The scar tissue blocks the flow of blood through the liver and slows the processing of nutrients, hormones, drugs, and naturally produced toxins.

Source:Goldmytv

Ebola Virus: Two Person Died and Over 20 Other Hospitalized Over Excessive Consumption Of Salt

At least two persons have been feared dead with 20 others hospitalized in various hospitals in Plateau State after consuming excessive quantity of salt and bitter kola to

Voting exercise has been concluded at the OAU staff school polling

Ebola Virus: Health Minister Shut Down NNPC Clinic Over Ebola.

Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu on Friday said the clinic belonging to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at Muri Okunola area of Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria has been shut down over suspected case of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in a patient admitted in the clinic.
The minister, who paid a visit on Governor

Saudi men have been banned from marrying women from three

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has hit "unprecedented"

The US has launched an air strike against militants from the Islamic

President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has summoned an

A total of 1,407,222 voters, comprising 661,394 males (47 per cent)

Israel says it has resumed air strikes in Gaza after Palestinian

Breaking News: Lagos State Governor Cancel New LASU Fee Ask Students To Revert To Old Fee.

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) Thursday ordered

Boko Haram gunmen attacked Nigeria’s restive northeastern town of Gwoza on Wednesday leaving dozens dead, residents said, in the

Russian President Vladimir Putin has named a new target as global sparring over Ukraine grows: food.

In a decree signed Wednesday, Putin banned food and agricultural imports from countries that have imposed sanctions against his country.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev spelled out some of the

South-West governors on Wednesday rose from a meeting in Lagos

From Ferraris to Bugattis, supercars and their rich owners are back

A nurse in Nigeria. A businessman in Saudi Arabia. A Spanish priest in Liberia.

What You Can Do About Facebook Tracking.

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Aussie Commuters Tip Train to Help Trapped Man

Dozens of people helped rescue a fellow commuter in Australia by pushing against a train car to free the man whose leg had slipped between the platform and the train.

On the wing of an empty airplane, a young boy is practicing his backward-bend. In the cockpit, a crowd have gathered -- taking it

A Saudi man who was being treated for Ebola-like symptoms has

After a 10-year chase taking it billions of miles across the solar

At least 30 people have been killed in an air strike in the northern

Breaking News: One Nurse Died Of Ebola Virus.

Impeachment Panel Dismisses Allegations Against Governor Tanko Al-Makura.

Israel has withdrawn its troops from the Gaza Strip to "defensive

The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) on Monday advised the Federal

The estranged National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party

King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal 1 was attacked in Osogbo on Sunday by unknown gunmen.

Breaking News: Nigeria Doctor Contracts Ebola Virus,

Breaking News: China Factory Explosion In Jiangsu Kills At Least More Than 68 People.

An explosion at a factory in eastern China has killed at least 68

President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has closed down all the

A total of N58.79 billion was realised at Thursday’s fund-raising

Saudi King Abdullah said Friday that world silence over Israeli "war crimes" in the Gaza Strip was "inexcusable" and would only breed

South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has sold his Pretoria

Israel has carried out fresh attacks on Gaza and militants have launched more rockets into Israel as a hunt continues for a missing

Islamic cleric and leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, has said his group would employ legitimate

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday sacked the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Andrew Yakubu.

The President, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, named Dr. Joseph Dawha as Yakubu’s replacement.

Abati also announced the appointment of Mr. Anthony Ugonna Muoneke as the new Managing Director of the Nigeria Petroleum Development Corporation.

Further shake-up in the NNPC as approved by the President , according to the statement, saw Ms. Aisha Mata Abdurrahman reassigned as the corporation’s Group Executive Director, Commercial and Investment; while Dr. Attahiru B. Yusuf was named the Group Executive Director, Business Development.

All the appointments take immediate effect.

The new GMD of the NNPC hails from Borno state.

He has served previously as the Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production, NNPC and Managing Director, Integrated Data Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the NNPC.

Muoneke, the new MD of the NPDC, hails from Anambra state.

Called to the Nigerian Bar in 1985, he has over 29 years’ experience at both local and international levels in the oil and gas as well as the energy and power sectors, including serving as Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited.

Source:Punch Newspaper