Ebola: FG directs all schools to resume October 13

In a determined effort aimed at containing to its barest minimum the spread of the dreaded Ebola virus disease (EVD), the Federal Government arising from a meeting with all the state commissioners of education and the FCT education secretariat has directed all schools both private and public to re-open on Monday, October 13, 2014 for the next academic session.

Scenarios for 2015

Opeyemi Agbaje

With the conclusion of the Osun State governorship election and re-election of Rauf Aregbesola, the march to the main prizes in 2015 is now a sprint! The only major event before the 2015 general elections will be the Adamawa governorship fixed for October 11, 2014 as a result of the impeachment of Admiral Murtala Nyako and his deputy, James Bala Ngilari. 

Ukrainian President Dissolves Parliament

Petro Poroshenko

Ukraine's president on Monday dissolved parliament and called for early elections in October as his country continues to battle a pro-Russian insurgency in its eastern regions.

In a statement on his website, President Petro Poroshenko said snap elections would be held Oct. 26.
Poroshenko said the dissolution, which was prefigured by the breakup of the majority coalition last month, was in line with "the expectations of the vast majority of the citizens of Ukraine" and called it a move toward "cleansing" the parliament.

Mobile Phone Sends 15-year-old to Untimely Grave

 

In the Okesa area of Ado-Ekiti, a family is crying over the untimely loss of their 15-year old boy who died in a freak accident involving his mobile phone, his earpiece and a power outlet.

The SUN has the story:

On that day, Junior suddenly shouted for help, jolting his elder brother, Chibuzor, into action. Junior had an electric shock while listening to music on his mobile phone through the earpiece, as the handset was plugged into the wall socket, charging. After raising the alarm, Junior’s elder brother was said to have looked for a long stick with which he could remove the earpiece from Junior’s ears. It was gathered that when he could not have the earpiece removed, Chibuzor also raised the alarm and that alerted other people, who promptly swung into action to rescue Junior.The mobile phone was eventually removed from the power socket and Junior was rushed to a nearby hospital in the area, in a frantic effort to save his life. Unfortunately, the boy passed on just before the rescue team stepped into the hospital.

Wars Without End

Onwuchekwa Jemie

The phone rang.

“Hello!”

“Good morning, Mr. O. J.”

“I should know that voice . . .”

“Do you ever forget a voice?”

“Faces and names but not voices, usually . . .

This must be the lady captain of industry . . .”

“That’s me!”

“Nigeria’s exemplary Robber Baron.”

Enugu Deputy Governor Impeached

Sunday Onyebuchi

The embattled Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Sunday Onyebuchi has been impeached by the State House of Assembly today. His impeachment, which was carried out precisely at 10:39 am came after the House adopted the 7-man panel report that investigated allegations of gross misconduct levelled against him by 22 of the 24 members of the House.
The motion for the adoption of the report was moved by the House Leader, Hon. S.K.E Udeh-Okoye.

Love in the time of Ebola

I have found the geopolitics and epidemiology of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) particularly intriguing. It was first discovered in 1976 in the erstwhile Zaire, the quintessential failed state in Africa. After the brutal assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961, Mobutu Sese Seko was installed as a puppet king. A murderous and corrupt tyrant, Mobutu ruled his people with a merciless iron hand for the better part of three decades. Apart from the marble palace he built in his ancestral home village of Gbadolite, Mobutu did not construct a single school or clinic from what the Belgians left during their precipitate exit from King Leopold’s benighted estate.