Ebola: See what Jim Iyke did...

Nollywood actor Jim Iyke’s quick exit from Liberia over his Ebola fears attracted the attention of UK newspaper and website, The Daily Mail. He posted an announcement about fleeing Liberia on his Instagram page, with a picture of himself wearing an Ebola mask and wrote ‘Monrovia, unfinished biz; Leavin tonite. Nt ashamed to admit tis ish scares the Jesus outta me. #Ebola!!!!’ The website reports that Iyke was spotted at the first class airport lounge wearing an Ebola mask. The actor is presently in an undisclosed location and seems to be doing fine. ‘Breakfast; somewhere serene. Glad to be away from all the madness. Thank u lord 4 everytime u hide me in ur pavilion #Ikchukwu‘he wrote on his Instagram page, a few hours ago along with a picture of a table with a variety of food....

One more for Naeto and Nicole

Naeto C's son just got a little kid sister on 25th July 2014, the mother Nicole put to bed in a UK hospital

The couple welcome their second child a baby girl in joy after their first male issue in March 2013 at Washington.

Naetochukwu Chikwe aka Naeto C and his wife Nicole are currently Parents of two...

Nigerian rapper Naetochukwu Chikwe aka Naeto C and wife Nicole have welcomed their second child – a baby girl. The couple welcomed their bundle of joy in a UK hospital on July 25, 2014. Mother and child are doing fine, a rep tells NET. Naeto and Nicole welcomed their first child, a boy, in March 2013 in Washington, DC, while the rapper was on tour....

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Dr Sid Marries Heartthrob

The pop Artiste Sidney Onoriode Esiri <Dr Sid> on 27th of July tied the knot with his heartthrob Simi Osomo at The Ark Event Centre Lekki.

In attendance was a host of Nigerian celebrities including Sid’s label mates Don Jazzy, D’Prince, Tiwa Savage, music colleagues Sound Sultan, DJ Caise, Banky W and many others.

earlier on July 2, 2014 Sid announced via his Instagram page that he was getting married. ‘On the 27th of July 2014 I say “I Do” to this beautiful woman #LoveMine my #LastBusStop’, he wrote.

The couple got engaged in Venice, Italy in August 2013. They held a family introduction three months later in Lagos, attended by celebrity friends Don Jazzy, Iyanya, Tiwa Savage and others. -Happy married life Dr Sid...

EBOLA: 59 contacts of the Dead Liberian in Lagos: 20 Screened and 39 others still in check

The Lagos State Government said on Monday that it had identified no fewer than 59 people who had contacts with Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who died of Ebola Virus in the state.

Dr Jide Idris, the Commissioner for Health,  said at a news conference in Ikeja that the contact tracing became imperative to ascertain any possible transmission of the virus by the victim.

Idris said the identified contacts comprised 44 hospital and 15 airport contacts, including  the Nigerian Ambassador to Liberia.

He said 20  of the contacts had been screened and that none of them had so far been found to be infected with the virus.

The commissioner, however, said the contacts did not include those he might have been with on his flight to Nigeria on July 20, as the airline had yet to release the passenger manifest for investigation.

"The airline manifest has not been provided by the airline as at the time of this report and therefore, the precise number of passenger contacts is yet to be ascertained, especially as two flights were involved (Monrovia-Lome and Lome-Lagos)."

The commissioner urged Nigerians not to entertain fears about  Sawyer's case as the state and Federal Governments were doing everything possible to prevent any risk to the country.

Idris said that the deceased's body had been decontaminated, using 10 per cent sodium hypochlorite and cremated with the permission of the Government of Liberia.

"A cremation urn has been prepared for dispatch to the family. The vehicle containing the remains have also been decontaminated while the hospital in which he died on July 25 has been demobilised."

Idris said that the state Ministry of Health had designated an isolation ward at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, for case management, adding three other centres were under way.

The commissioner urged residents to report people with abnormal cases of bleeding and fever to the appropriate  authorities for intervention, as high fever with bleeding from all body openings were symptoms of the disease.

Idris also urged residents to always keep their environments clean and maintain good personal hygiene as Ebola virus spreads easily in dirty environments.
Also speaking, Prof. Abdul-Salami Nasidi, the Director, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) warned against the consumption of bats and monkeys as these animals had been established to be the original sources of  Ebola.

"This is time for those bat-eating and monkey-eating communities to be careful now. Ebola started from the eating of chimpazees. How the virus got to the monkey, nobody knows yet.

In a remark, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, the President of the Nigerian Academy of Science, also warned  Nigerians against the unsupervised burial of people who died from suspected Ebola case.

DAVIDO MADE HIS WAY THROUGH MANY TO WIN THE MUSIC MAGAZINE AWARDS

The young Hip pop Artiste, Davido has won African ‘Artiste of the Year‘ award and the ‘Best West African Artiste‘ award, at the recently held African Muzik Magazine Awards in the United States.

Davido beat  Wizkid, Flavour, Ghana’s Sarkodie, South Africa’s Mafikizolo and Tanzania’s Diamond to clinch the award.

Earlier this year, Davido won the same categories at the MTV Africa Music Awards and BET Awards.

He is really taking it to the top.

Kudos Davido.

SIX DEAD AS SUICIDE BOMBERS STORMS YOBE

Kano - Suicide bombers attacked two mosques in Yobe state late Tuesday killing at least six people and injuring several others.

The first explosion rocked an open air mosque belonging to a Shiite Muslim sect in the Dogo Tebo area of the town of Potiskum around 7:55 pm (1855 GMT) leaving four people dead.

The second blast five minutes later at a mosque within the compound of the chief imam in the town's Anguwar Bolawa area killed at least two worshipers.

"A suicide bomber we believe was from Boko Haram blew himself up at the open air mosque used by Shiites which they name Saqafa shortly after saying their evening prayers there," witness Balarabe Dahiru said."We took four dismembered bodies of the victims to the hospital along with five others who were injured," said Dahiru who was sitting outside his house when the blast happened.

The body of the suicide bomber was left untouched by residents in protest, he said.

Resident Awwal Maikusa who gave a similar account said a second blast occurred five minutes later.

"They are obviously the handiwork of Boko Haram," Maikusa said of the two attacks.

"We were trying to deal with the suicide blast in our neighboUrhood when a second explosion was heard which we later learnt was from the chief imam's compound," he said.

A suicide bomber went inside the mosque while Muslim faithful were saying their evening prayer, said Sheriff Abdullahi who lives in the area.

"There was a loud explosion moments after the suicide bomber entered the mosque," Abdullahi said.

"I saw two dead bodies whom I recognized being taken out of the mosque," he said.

The town was locked down by soldiers following the attacks, with residents ordered to remain indoors.

Potiskum, Yobe state's commercial hub, has been the scene of repeated deadly Boko Haram attacks in the last four years although they have become rarer in recent months.

60 MORE ABDUCTED GIRLS OUT

More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday.
Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had “received an alert from my colleagues … that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home” late Friday.
A high-level security source in the Borno state capital Maiduguri, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, confirmed the escape.
Gava, a senior official of the local vigilantes in Borno State who are working closely with security officials, told journalists the women escaped when their captors went out to fight.
“They took the bold step when their abductors moved out to carry out an operation,” he said.
Clashes took place between the Islamists and the army late Friday after an attack by the insurgents in the town of Damboa, where more than 50 of them were killed, the army had said.
Spokesmen for the armed forces or the government could not be reached Sunday for comment.
Activists of the Bring Back Our Girls movement meanwhile tried to march on the presidential palace in Abuja Sunday in another reminder of the fate of more than 200 girls kidnapped in Chibok, Borno state, on April 14, but were asked by security forces to turn back.
“It’s 83 days today that the girls have been abducted,” activist Aisha Yesufu told the press.
“We have been coming out for 68 days and nobody has really listened to us,” Yesufu told reporters after the march.
That is why the group “decided that we should just take the protest back to the President so that he will know that we are still out there after the 68 days that we have been coming out daily”.
Security experts say the overstretched and under-resourced military is incapable of fighting an effective counterinsurgency against the Boko Haram militants, who have killed thousands in their five-year campaign for an independent Islamic state in the north.