Former Nigerian Beauty Queen and actress, Regina Askia has volunteered to be among the few nurses who are ready to fight Ebola in the States. Regina wrote on her Facebook page not most of her colleagues (nurses) were not willing to take up the challenge and those who were ready demanded a sum of $200 per hour. But she went forward and volunteered herself for free. Interestingly, she is the only female at the hospital she works that volunteered. Bless her and may she not contract the virus during her fight in battling it.
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Friday, October 24, 2014
Obama Did not risk by Embracing Former Ebola Patient: Press Secretary
US President Barack Obama is not at risk of contracting the Ebola virus after hugging Nina Pham who just recovered from the infection, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.
"He [the President] was not at all concerned about any risk that would be associated with him showing his gratitude to her [Pham] by hugging her," Earnest told reporters at a press briefing Friday.
Pham, a healthcare worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, treated Eric Duncan who was infected with Ebola and died on October 8. Pham later contracted Ebola and was treated at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.
Mali’s 1st Ebola Patient Dies: Reports
The first confirmed Ebola patient in Mali has died
© REUTERS/ Christopher Black/WHO |
The first confirmed Ebola patient in Mali, a 2-year-old girl, has died, CNN reported.
The child, who recently arrived to Mali from Guinea, was diagnosed with Ebola Thursday. She died Friday, according to CNN.
On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that the girl was exposed to many other people who could have contacted the virus from her even though they showed no Ebola symptoms yet. Ebola's incubation period is up to 21 days.
The Ebola virus is transmitted through direct contact with the bodily fluids of those infected. The current Ebola outbreak began in southern Guinea in the beginning of this year and later spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Senegal.
According to WHO, 4,877 people have lost their lives to Ebola, with 9,936 confirmed, likely and suspected cases having been reported in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Spain and the United States.
Facts & Info: Ukraine’s Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko
Oleh Lyashko's Radical Party is a Ukrainian pro-European radical democratic party led by former journalist, Euromaidan activist and 2014 presidential candidate Oleh Lyashko.
The Ukrainian Radical Democratic Party was founded in August 2010 and was initially headed by Vladislav Telipko. However, the party was renamed a year later, when an independent deputy from the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, Oleh Lyashko was elected the new leader.
The party's platform is focused on creating "a society of equal opportunity and universal welfare" with Lyashko calling for fighting corruption, political and economic reforms, and imposing a ban on land sales.
UDAR Party of Ukraine: Facts and Info
The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (or UDAR, which means punch in English) is a center-right pro-European political party in Ukraine led by professional heavyweight boxer and current mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko.
The party was formed in April 2010, replacing the Nova Krayina (New Country) Party.
UDAR's platform is focused around transforming Ukrainian politics in line with "fundamental European values" and carrying out the social and economic reforms that would enable Ukraine to meet European standards.
Female Student Dies in Marysville High School Shooting: Police Department
A female student was shot dead by the Washington State shooter© AP Photo/ Elaine Thompson |
"The scene is secure, two people are deceased, one male, one female. About 30 students and staff are witnesses and are being questioned," Lamoureux said in a press briefing Friday.
The police are not confirming the type of weapon the shooter used, but have confirmed that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Landlord adds 3 more floors to bungalow.
Tenants
and other individuals who live near this building are worried about
this after the home owner started adding a 3rd floor years after he
added two floors to the building.
A Tenants said;
A Tenants said;
"This house was built over 30 years back as a bungalow. About 10years ago, the landlord added 2 floors to the building. To everyone's surprise, he's adding another floor to it. I'm writing this due to the rate of which houses have already been collapsing. The tenants cannot afford an improved housing, so the smallest amount of the government can do is try and prevent another disaster from happening due to greed. The building is on One Day road, off Agbani road, Enugu."
Busted: Girl Caught in Bed With Her Sister's Husband (Photo)
The lady in the above was reportedly caught sleeping with her elder sister’s husband. Her elder sister who recently gave birth was nursing her baby and she thought the best way to help out is to be servicing the woman’s husband. Source has it that it was the girl that suggested the illicit act to her sister’s husband and the ‘weak’ man obliged without resistance. The elder sister got to find out that her husband was always taking a young girl to a small hotel in Lagos and she stormed the place, only to catch her own sister in the act with her husband. When interrogated, the apprehended girl claimed that she was helping her sister so her husband won’t go outside.
Senate passes yahoo-yahoo bill
The bill has passed through second reading and it's awaiting enactment so it becomes a law. Once it's passed into law, it will become an offense for anyone to commit fraud using a computer system or network with the intention of obtaining computer data, securing access to any programme, commercial or industrial secrets or classified information.
It will also be an offense to be in possession of a manipulative device, unauthorized Automated Teller Machine, ATM card, damaging a computer with the intention to defraud, trafficking in any password to defraud customers or financial institutions.
It will also be an offense to be in possession of a manipulative device, unauthorized Automated Teller Machine, ATM card, damaging a computer with the intention to defraud, trafficking in any password to defraud customers or financial institutions.
Pics: Obama hugs 1st nurse to contract Ebola in the US
(Photo credit: White House Press)
Chude Jideonwo & Debola Williams bag Young Business Leader at CNBC Africa
Red
Media co-founders and Future Awards Africa organizers, Chude Jideonwo
and Debola Williams yesterday evening October 23rd won The Young
Business Leader of the Year category in the CNBC All Africa Business
Leaders Awards 2014 which held at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos.Big congrats to them. Teenage boys who never stop to inspire!
StoryForTheGods: Baby born in Ibadan clutching holy Qur’an (Photo)
We are in the 21st century and things like this still happening in the 21st century?? I mean religion marketing !! Oh please.. Well for those who believe in things like this...Nigerian Tribune is reporting that a baby was born recently in Oyo state clutching a pocket-size Qur’an (pictured above).
The baby, who has since been named Ismail, was born in a church at the Oniyanrin area of Ibadan in September, the reports states. A renowned Islamic preacher who the newspaper spoke with said the woman who delivered the baby threw away the object she found in the baby's hand thinking it was something devilish, only for them to later find out it was a pocket-size Qur’an which contained all the 114 chapters in the holy book. It was wrapped in a thread. The preacher said although the Qur’an was small, the lettering inside was readable.Continue..
Mali Records Its 1st Case Of Ebola After A 2 Year Girl From Guinea Contracted It
Mali has recorded its first case of Ebola after a 2 year girl who had come into the country from Guinea, one of the worst hit with the Ebola epidemic, came down with fever and was diagnosed with the deadly virus yesterday October 23rd. Confirming the development, Malian Health Minister, Ousmane Kone, said the girl is undergoing treatment now and is responding to treatment...
"The condition of the girl, according to our services, is improving. Thanks to her rapid treatment"Mali becomes the sixth African country to record a case of Ebola after Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal.
Check out Photos from Mavin Concert in London
Nick Minaj sizzles in new photos to promote MTV EMAs
The rapper may be the variety of the 2014 MTV Europe Audio Prizes and produced these pictures from an intro truck to market the forthcoming honor show.
See more photos bellow.
22-Year Old Boy Chops Off His manhood After Been Jilted By His Girlfriend
A Jilted, 22-year-old lover boy chopped off his own peen after he was dumped by his girlfriend. Report has it that Mr Oliver Ilic was told by his girlfriend that he was no good in bed so he felt depressed and mutilated himself then threw the remains in the bin. Ilic called emergency services when he could not stop the bleeding and was taken to hospital in the east Macedonian town of Kocani.
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Former NBA President Okey Wali regains freedom after 13 days in captivity
Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr Okey Wali,
who was kidnapped on Oct 11th in Port Harcourt by unknown gunmen,
has been released. In accordance with a statement released
today and signed by the present President of the NBA, Mr Augustine
Aleghe, Mr Wali was released around 11pm yesterday evening after
spending 13 days in captivity.
Check out the four children of late insurance guru, Dr Remi Olowude
The Insurance industry was thrown into mourning mood when the
headlines of Dr Remi Olowude was announced, late September 2014. Dr.
Oluremi Olowude until his death, was a person of great diversity. Aside
from being the Executive Vice Chairman of multimillion Naira insurance
company, Industrial and General Insurance (IGI), which can be arguably
the greatest private insurance business in Nigeria, he'd his hands in a
number of other businesses. He was a person in the Board of Directors
of British International School (BIS) and First City Group. A few of his
other positions before he handed down, include Chairman Orbital
Computer Limited, Monarch Communications Limited, to say a few.
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Ibinabo Fiberisima shines in new photos
See more bellow.
Photos: Pregnant Kate Middleton steps out with tiny baby bump
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