Ebola in Nigeria: FG Holds Emmergency Meeting in Abuja

The federal government of #Nigeria is holding an emergency meeting with the National Council on Health, NCH, today in Abuja following the outbreak of #Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, outside #Lagos.

The meeting will be the third in series since the outbreak of the disease in West Africa, #Vanguard says.

This came as widow of Dr Ike Enemuo, who died of Ebola in Port Harcourt has also tested positive to the virus.

They get away with it every time

I was not surprised when Africa-Man, the reclusive polymath, phoned me from his hermitage in Vladivostok and weighed in on unarmed black teenager Michael Brown shot dead by white policeman Darren Wilson on 9 August 2014 in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
“They get away with it every time,” he said.
“He should not get away with it. He should lose his job and serve some years in prison at least.”
“Nice wishful thinking, O. J. You know that’s not gonna happen. Do you know how many black men are shot dead by white policemen every year in America?”

Mugabe: I prefer Chinese aid because Beijing doesn't force Africa to 'embrace homosexuality'

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has said he prefers aid from China because Beijing did not force Africa to 'embrace homosexuality' like the West.
He made this comment while visiting China but left without a single yuan in aid or soft loans.

'Whereas Europe and America, when they give little funding assistance to countries they always attach conditions,' he told a Chinese TV interviewer. 'And that is our objection.'

Gay Son Kicked Out by Religious Parents Receives More Than $40,000 to Start his New Life.

It may take two people to produce a child, but to raise one? It takes a community.
Incredible, generous people have rallied around a 20-year-old who thought he lost everything after being kicked out of his home by his religious parents.
This week Daniel Ashley-Pierce, from Kennesaw, Georgia captured a candid video of his parents disowning him.
'Since you have chosen that path, we will not support you any longer,' his mother is heard saying.
'You will need to move out and find wherever you can to live and do you want to. I will not let people believe I condone what you do.'
With it then escalating into an argument, Ashley-Pierce can be heard being called a 'piece of shit' and 'damned queer' before he is hit several times.

Girl Stripped and Photographed By Three Students

In a disturbing incident, a girl student of the prestigious Visva-Bharti University in West Bengal's Shantiniketan has alleged ragging by her seniors.

The girl, a first year Arts student from Sikkim, has accused three students of stripping her. One of the accused is a second year student, while the other two are third year students. They also took her photographs and threatened to circulate it if the incident was disclosed, she said.

No official police complaint has yet been made.

PDP Will Win Lagos Governorship Election- Mimiko

Olusegun Mimiko, the Governor of Ondo state has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will win Lagos Gubernatorial elections in 2015. Nigerian Tribune has this story.

ONDO State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Thursday, that come 2015, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will form the next government in Lagos State, even as he said that the state would deliver the highest number of votes for President Goodluck Jonathan.

Mimiko said this at the investiture of the former Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Chief Olabode George, of the Mandela Icon Award by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), which took place at the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos.

Boko Haram Takes Over Catholic Church in Adamawa

The Catholic church has issued an outcry that Boko Haram terrorists have taken over one of their buildings in Adamawa and other Christian houses following their attack on Madagali last week.
The church, in an electronic press statement by the Director, Catholic Social Communications in-charge of the Maiduguri Diocese, Rev. Fr. Gideon Obasogie, said though the members of the outlawed sect have not been known to draw a line of demarcation of whom to visit or not to visit with mayhem, adding that, "in recent times, it seems that Christians and Christian institutions have been at the receiving end of the attacks by the terrorists."