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The Lagos State Government has warned Lagosians and other citizens in the country not to fall victim to suspected fraudsters who were selling a kit that allegedly could be used to test for Ebola Virus.The government, in a statement by the Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, Mr. Hakeem ...

Mr Peter Leslie Carter, the deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria who arrived Lagos this yesterday evening,September 2nd reportedly slumped and died shortly after landing at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport. Immediately the man, who arrived on a United Airlines flight slumped, eyewitnesses said many passengers and airport officials took ...

According to a report by Premium Times, a 19 year old student of Law at Ahmadu Bello University has been diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in Kaduna. They reported yesterday that the PRO of the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, ABUTH, Bilyaminu Umar, confirmed the case yesterday Monday September ...

The death of a patient, who is suspected to have Ebola, has caused panic among patients and doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi- Araba, Lagos State. A reliable source, who confirmed this development to our correspondent in Lagos on Tuesday, said the patient was brought in by members ...

Islamic Militant, Boko Haram are getting more severe with their actions daily. The sect have taken over Bama, in Borno State. Bama happens to be the second biggest city in the state and it was attacked earlier this morning after initially being repelled by men of the Nigerian Army, SaharaReporters ...

On Sunday, two days after it was reported that Anita Oyakhilome had filed for divorce, Christ Embassy deleted her pictures and personal information from its official website, www.christembassy.org. Many describe the action as the beginning of a process to shut her out of the church, after she accused her husband ...

Suspected assassins have killed the Head of Operations, Security Unit, University of Lagos, Mr. Sunday Adejumo.The 50-year-old was shot dead at a beer parlour on Oyenuga Street in the Akoka area of Lagos on Friday evening. According to Punch, Adejumo on the fateful night was in the joint with three ...

15 of the Chibok girls who escaped from Boko Haram abductors have been admitted into the American University of Nigeria Academy in Yola, Adamawa state on a scholarship. According to former vice president Atiku Abubakar, who announced the news on his twitter page.

An employee of former Defence Minister, Gen Theophilus Danjum rtd, Manasseh Zorto is said to be currently on the run after allegedly defrauding his boss of about N2billion. Zorto, who was to be arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) wasn’t in court ...

Below is what Atiku Abubakar shared about the situation of the missing school, while chilling with his kids. Atleast somebody still remembers them.

There was anxiety yesterday at the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos after an alarm was raised that a passenger arriving the airport from Enugu had the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). TheNation reports that passengers were soaked in tension and anxiety when the aircraft carrying the suspected ...

The police college overrun by Boko Haram sect over a week ago has been converted into the base of the terrorist group, according to the Director, Catholic Social Communications, Maiduguri Diocese of the Catholic Church, Gideon Obasogie, who narrated the account of a survivor to Saturday PUNCH on Friday. The ...

[youtube BlCdQMRE4vo 300 200] Ozị maka oya nje Ebola n’asụsụ Igbo Ebola awareness message in Igbo language. This is for the benefit of people that do not understand English language which is the language used for most awareness videos and information on this disease. Please watch and share, this is ...

The Federal Government has reinstated the 16,000 resident doctors it sacked on August 13th. Spokesman for the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh said the reinstatement became effective Thursday August 28th.

In a recent interview with Arise News TV, Australian hostage negotiator, Stephen Davis, who was hired by the Nigerian government some months back to help negotiate with Boko Haram members to facilitate the release of abducted Chibok girls, mentioned the name of former Borno state Governor, Alimodu Sheriff as a ...

Dora Akunyili, renowned NAFDAC reformer and former Minister of Information and Communications who passed away in June at 59, was buried on Thursday 28th August 2014 in Anambra. Dignitaries from all walks of life including top government officials � federal and state, were in Agulu in Anaocha local government area ...

The dissolution of the marriage between Christ Embassy Church founder, Pastor Christian Oyakhilome, and his wife, Rev. Anita Odegwa Oyakhilome, has entered the final phase, TheCable can report. The wife is seeking divorce on the grounds of �unreasonable behaviour” and �adultery”. She outlined several allegations against the pastor which TheCable ...

Reports coming days after the declaration of GWOZA town in the troubled northeastern state of Borno as an Islamic Caliphate and the recent takeover of Madagali by the Boko Haram insurgents, the extremists have reportedly beheaded every Christian man available in the areas, while their wives have been forced into ...

One of Africa’s richest women and chairman of Famfa Oil, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija yesterday August 27th revealed that she never went to a university, saying one does not need a university education to make it in life. Mrs Alakija said this while speaking with students of the University of Lagos ...

A member of staff of ECOWAS on the team that received the late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American diplomat, who died of Ebola in Lagos, made a trip to Port Harcourt where he checked into a hotel and met with Dr. Iyke Enemuo.The ECOWAS official whose name was also not given ...