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According to a report by Premium Times, a 19 year old student of Law at Ahmadu Bello University has been diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in Kaduna. They reported yesterday that the PRO of the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, ABUTH, Bilyaminu Umar, confirmed the case yesterday Monday September ...

The death of a patient, who is suspected to have Ebola, has caused panic among patients and doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi- Araba, Lagos State. A reliable source, who confirmed this development to our correspondent in Lagos on Tuesday, said the patient was brought in by members ...

Islamic Militant, Boko Haram are getting more severe with their actions daily. The sect have taken over Bama, in Borno State. Bama happens to be the second biggest city in the state and it was attacked earlier this morning after initially being repelled by men of the Nigerian Army, SaharaReporters ...

On Sunday, two days after it was reported that Anita Oyakhilome had filed for divorce, Christ Embassy deleted her pictures and personal information from its official website, www.christembassy.org. Many describe the action as the beginning of a process to shut her out of the church, after she accused her husband ...

15 of the Chibok girls who escaped from Boko Haram abductors have been admitted into the American University of Nigeria Academy in Yola, Adamawa state on a scholarship. According to former vice president Atiku Abubakar, who announced the news on his twitter page.

An employee of former Defence Minister, Gen Theophilus Danjum rtd, Manasseh Zorto is said to be currently on the run after allegedly defrauding his boss of about N2billion. Zorto, who was to be arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) wasn’t in court ...

Below is what Atiku Abubakar shared about the situation of the missing school, while chilling with his kids. Atleast somebody still remembers them.

There was anxiety yesterday at the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos after an alarm was raised that a passenger arriving the airport from Enugu had the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). TheNation reports that passengers were soaked in tension and anxiety when the aircraft carrying the suspected ...

The police college overrun by Boko Haram sect over a week ago has been converted into the base of the terrorist group, according to the Director, Catholic Social Communications, Maiduguri Diocese of the Catholic Church, Gideon Obasogie, who narrated the account of a survivor to Saturday PUNCH on Friday. The ...

[youtube BlCdQMRE4vo 300 200] Ozị maka oya nje Ebola n’asụsụ Igbo Ebola awareness message in Igbo language. This is for the benefit of people that do not understand English language which is the language used for most awareness videos and information on this disease. Please watch and share, this is ...

The Federal Government has reinstated the 16,000 resident doctors it sacked on August 13th. Spokesman for the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh said the reinstatement became effective Thursday August 28th.

In a recent interview with Arise News TV, Australian hostage negotiator, Stephen Davis, who was hired by the Nigerian government some months back to help negotiate with Boko Haram members to facilitate the release of abducted Chibok girls, mentioned the name of former Borno state Governor, Alimodu Sheriff as a ...

Dora Akunyili, renowned NAFDAC reformer and former Minister of Information and Communications who passed away in June at 59, was buried on Thursday 28th August 2014 in Anambra. Dignitaries from all walks of life including top government officials � federal and state, were in Agulu in Anaocha local government area ...

The dissolution of the marriage between Christ Embassy Church founder, Pastor Christian Oyakhilome, and his wife, Rev. Anita Odegwa Oyakhilome, has entered the final phase, TheCable can report. The wife is seeking divorce on the grounds of �unreasonable behaviour” and �adultery”. She outlined several allegations against the pastor which TheCable ...

Reports coming days after the declaration of GWOZA town in the troubled northeastern state of Borno as an Islamic Caliphate and the recent takeover of Madagali by the Boko Haram insurgents, the extremists have reportedly beheaded every Christian man available in the areas, while their wives have been forced into ...

One of Africa’s richest women and chairman of Famfa Oil, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija yesterday August 27th revealed that she never went to a university, saying one does not need a university education to make it in life. Mrs Alakija said this while speaking with students of the University of Lagos ...

President Jonathan Launched the new E-National identity card in Abuja today .The card is a multi-purpose card for identification, electronic signatures, biometric on-card verification, and other applications.

Earlier this week, BN brought you the news that Deputy Governor of Enugu, Sunday Onyebuchi was impeached by the Enugu State House of Assembly. Onyebuchi was accused of operating a commercial poultry at his official residence and of flouting the orders of the State Governor Sullivan Chime, but many have ...

Men who were treated and discharged of Ebola Virus have been advised not to have sex for atleast 7 weeks. Dr Bridget Okoeguale, Director, Department of Public Health, gave the advice during an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).She said �There are many literatures that say that after men ...

A highly placed official of the Rivers state Government has confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that a suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease has been detected in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital. The official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to discuss the development ...