News On Tuesday - Sensational Like Genevieve And Rita!

-New Yorkers are currently in shock because a man who was in Africa ran to the  mount Sinai hospital last night with high fever. hospital in New York has quarantined the man for now and there is fear in the atmosphere with most New 
Yorkers scared that it has finally gotten to them.

On Monday August 4, 2014 Nollywood Alister Genevieve Nnaji was spotted at the announcement of the 2nd edition of Amstel Malta‘s city led youth platform tagged, Amstel Malta Showtime ...glowing skin, a fashionista alright ...who can read what her necklace says?

                        Nollywood Alister Rita Dominic was spotted at the US-Africa Summit currently on going till Wednesday August 6,2014...Mirror,Mirror on the wall,who is the fairest of them all.....REEDEE!

Jonathan appoints ex-INEC chairman IWU others as members on FG committee on Ebola 

President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Maurice Iwu former chairman of independent National Electoral Commission as a member of the committee charged to contain the Ebola disease outbreak. Iwu who is a professor of pharmacognosy had earlier claimed to have discovered a means to treat Ebola using kola it extract. The team is charged to carry out research into the treatment of Ebola virus says Onyebuchi Chukwu the Minister of Health. 

Ebola: Nigerian Female Doctor who treated Sawyer is down with Disease. 

A second case of the Ebola virus disease has been disclosed in Lagos recently as the doctor who treated the Liberian victim Patrick Sawyer has tested positive for the virus. 70 people are under surveillance and 8 have been currently quarantined in a Lagos state provided facility says health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu. 

Presidency denies funding Pro-Jonathan groups 

The presidency has denied funding the groups who are currently engaging in pro-Jonathan rallies and support for his second term. The special adviser to Goodluck Jonathan on Political matters Prof. Rufai Alkali has said that these groups are NGOs with private funding. 

In Kwara State PDP Alleges APC is buying voters cards 

Chief Rex Olawoye publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Kwara state on Monday accused officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of buying temporary voters cards (TVC) ahead of the 2015 elections in the state. He says this illegal practice is ongoing in all 16 local government areas of the state. 

Al Makura appears before probe panel 

Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nassarawa state who is facing 16 charges of gross misconduct and abuse of oath of office appeared before the probe panel set up to investigate his activities. Al-Makura vowed to challenge the violation if the impeachment process by the state house of assembly members saying that he was never served with any impeachment notice. 

E-passport: NIS sends 24 officers

The Nigerian immigration service on Monday said that 24 officers were sent to various embassies abroad to ease the process of obtaining visas and e-passports. NIS Public Relations Officer Emeka Obua said that the new 64 page passport costs NGN 20,000 while those individuals under 18 years and above 60 years of age could obtain the passport for NGN 8750.

"Esther" the Nigerian dress making history

Patience Torlowei a Nigerian artist and textile specialist has caught. Global attention with her dress " Esther" at the Smithsonian institute in Washington DC. Esther illustrates the pain and struggle of the niger delta people and the power and hope of a single person to change the world says Patience. The dress which is a silk ball gown designed and hand painted by Miss Torlowei has been accepted by the Smithsonian institute as part of its permanent collection and the first piece of high fashion to be accepted by the African museum of arts. 

Amnesty International : Nigeria army committed atrocities

Amnesty international has accused the Nigerian army, the Civil Joint Task Force, state sponsored militia of perpetrating horrific crimes in its fight against Islamist militants from the Boko Haram sect. 

The campaign group said it had seen footage obtained from multiple sources in Borno state including horrific images of detainees throats being slit and the bodies dumped in mass graves. 

The Nigerian military authorities have denied squarely and vowed to look into these allegations

APC Tells PDP '' stop destroying our billboards''

The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kwara state has officially complained to the state security service in the state about the destruction of its billboards placed in strategic positions in the state. 

The state chairman Alhaji Ishola Balogun Fulani alleged that this move is coming from the PDP after a failed attempt to impeach the Governor of the state Abdulfatah Ahmed.

World bank gives $200m Ebola assistance 

The world bank on Monday pledged $20 to help Guinea,Liberia and Sierra Leone to fight the deadly Ebola epidemic. This aid is intended for supplies, salaries and materials needed to stabilize health systems in the affected countries. 

-Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has sent in a formal notice to the Nigeria Football Federation accepting to continue as the country’s coach. The letter was submitted to the NFF Secretariat in Abuja on Monday. 

- A Saudi man was beheaded Tuesday for torturing and beating his two-year-old boy to death, the interior ministry said.

Maqbul bin Madi al-Sharari hit his son Mohammed “repeatedly with a cane on the back of his head and the rest of his body,” the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.

- Chinese Internet users rose up in anger Tuesday after the televised prostitution and gambling “confession” of a woman who embroiled the China Red Cross in scandal — but condemned the media, rather than her.

Guo Meimei, now 23, triggered a wave of public ire in 2011 when she flaunted her wealth online and claimed she was the general manager of a firm called “Red Cross Commerce”, which web users took to mean she had received embezzled funds.“Guo Meimei Baby”, as she is known online, posted photos of her opulent lifestyle to nearly two million followers on China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo, posing in front of a Maserati or sipping a drink in business class on a plane.

The China Red Cross denied any ties to Guo, and the actress and singer later insisted that she had made up her job title.

- A traditional medical practitioner, whose identities are yet to be ascertained, was last weekend shot dead by some vigilante operatives for allegedly possessing some substances suspected to be charms and fresh animal parts.

- The Bauchi State Police Command has disclosed that some unknown ritualists attacked and removed the eyes of a nine-year-old boy in Toro Local Government Area of the state.The command’s spokesman, DSP Haruna Mohammed, who confirmed the incident yesterday, said around 2.30 pm, unknown assailants, suspected to be ritualists, attacked and removed the eyes of a nine-year-old Haruna Dahiru of Badiko ward in Toro Local Government Area of the state.

It was learnt that the victim was rearing cattle at Babujaye in Gumau village when the ritualists trailed his movement to a solidarity area where they attacked him.

-Thank God for journey mercies...I am back home and grateful.those of you complaining of N100 recharge,if you have so much,why do you bother to load them?didnt you read that it is more blessed to give than to receive?did anybody put a gun to your heads to load card?please stop being ingrates,its such a piss off.how do you want the givers to feel.Show love,c'mon!