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Bishop Ezeokafor Wants Late Dora Akunyili Immortalized

By Abuchi Onwumelu

The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese His Lordship Most Rev. Dr. Paulinus Ezeokafor has called for the immortalization of the former Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and one time Minister of Information and Communication, Late Prof. Dora Nkemdilim Akunyili who died on Saturday the 7^th day of June, 2014.

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Genevieve Nnaji Emerges As The Richest Nigerian Celebrity

The 2014 Vanguard's Richest List is out and Nollywood actress Genevieve Nnaji tops the list with N220 Million!Genevieve Nnaji has been named the richest celebrity in Nigeria. The Nollywood actress came on top of the recently released Vanguard's Richest Celebrity List of 2014 with a net worth of N220 million from endorsements alone.

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Check Out A Nigerian Who May Succeed nCameron As First Black British Prime Minister

On May 7, 2015, a Nigerian, Chuka Umunna, could make history by becoming the first black Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Born in London in 1978, Chuka was bred in the UK. His late father, Bennett, hailed from Anambra State while his Irish mother, Patricia, is a solicitor.Co-incidentally, Chuka shares startling similarities with the United States President, Barack Obama, who is the first black President of the world’s most powerful nation.For instance, Chuka is of mixed race, being the child of a Nigerian father and an Irish mother while Obama is also of mixed race, being the offspring of a white American woman and a Kenyan father.

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Wednesday

PHOTONEWS: Check Out Where Prof. Dora Akunyili Will Be Buried, Like A National Museum

It is generally believed that the reward for every hard working man may likely be in heaven, but that of Professor Dora Akunyili is slightly not the same as the axiom puts it.

The building and structures were believed to have been built and donated to the family as a symbol of good service to humanity by yet to be identified persons who gave out these structures in her favour.

Professor Akunyili as she is widely known worldwide as Mrs.-Do-It-Right would always be remebered for her good service to restore confidence to the Nigeria before the internatioal community as the Director General of NAFDAC.

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Chairman World Igbo Congress, Joseph Eto Arrested for Allege Fraud in USA

The upcoming election for the Chairmanship position at the World Igbo Congress [WIC] may unsettle the foundations of the Union in a manner that has not been witnessed by body. As gathered, the of WIC, Mr. Joseph Nzenwa Eto was arrested and charged for fraud by a Grand Jury in Marietta County, State of Georgia, United States of America. He is facing a two count charge of Racketeering.
According to the Marietta Daily Journal, MDJ, Mr. Eto, a Nigerian naturalized USA citizen was recently charged along four others for stealing about $686,000 from the Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA.The World Igbo Congress Chairman, according to the charges, accepted more than $200,000 in kick-backs through inflated costs or services never rendered.

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W-I-C-K-E-D-N-E-S-S: Man Rapes Seven-Year-Old Gril----Punch Metro

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man, identified simply as Julius, for allegedly raping a seven-year-old girl (names withheld), damaging her private parts and distorting her urination.
PUNCH Metro learnt that 29-year-old Julius, who lived in a rented apartment on Obafalabi Street, Ojodu Berger area of Lagos, allegedly tricked the little girl into his room on the night of Saturday, July 26, and had illegal carnal knowledge of her.
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Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi And Others Receive Best Performing State on MDGs Goals Honour

The 2-day Presidential Summit at Transcorps Nicon Hotel, Abuja, on the Millennium Development Goals ended yesterday with the Former Governor of Anambra Sta...te, Mr. Peter Obi winning the star prize tagged the Award for Mainstreaming the MDGs into Anambra State Development Agenda, 2006-2014. Others that won awards are the Governors of Kebbi State, Alhaji Usman Dakingari and that of Bauchi State, Mallam Isa Yuguda for Outstanding Performance on the Implementation of the MDGs.

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EVD: Doctor Adadevoh Finally Died Of Ebola Disease

EBOLA STRIKES AT THE HEART OF NIGERIA…
• Ameyo, Daughter of Kwaku Adadevoh, Great Grand Daughter of Herbert Macaulay, Dies
The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) struck at the heart of Nigeria, when Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, a consultant physician, and member of the illustrious Kwaku Adadevoh/Herbert Macaulay/Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowder lineage succumbed to the scourge of the disease.
Adadevoh contracted the virus from the Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who imported the disease into Nigeria.
Sources close to Adadevoh, 58, said she succumbed to the disease yesterday evening, having been in a coma for some days.
Adadevoh, who is survived by one son, had led the medical team at First Consultants Medical Centre, a Lagos-based hospital, which treated Sawyer on his arrival in Lagos.
As the head of operations at First Consultants, Adadevoh was praised for being the first to detect that Sawyer, who was admitted at First Consultants for five days before his death, was not being truthful when he denied that he was infected with the Ebola virus.
After he had tested negative for malaria and other diseases, she was said to have ordered that his blood be tested for Ebola. It was the positive result of the test that enabled the hospital to contact the Lagos State health authorities about the first Ebola patient in the country.
Her death brings to five, including the index case Sawyer, the total number of persons who have succumbed to the scourge of the disease in Nigeria.
Among those who have passed on, Adedavoh is the first doctor and the fourth Nigerian to have died from the virus. Others who died before her comprised two nurses and the ECOWAS protocol officer, Jatto Abdulqudir, who picked up an already infected Sawyer from the Murtala Muhammad International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
However, five others who contracted the disease from Sawyer have been discharged while two others remain in the isolation ward at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
Prior to Adadevoh’s death, her family and colleagues had held a press briefing in Lagos appealing to the US government to intervene to keep her from dying.
They felt that the medical care she was getting in the isolation ward was insufficient and had called on the US government to send the ZMapp trial drug to save her life.
Adadevoh comes from an illustrious family of physicians, politicians, statesmen and clerics.
Her father, the late Dr. Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh, was a renowned Harvard University-trained physician and former vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos, while her grandmother was the daughter of Sir Herbert Samuel Macaulay, a foremost politician and founder of Nigerian nationalism in the early 1940s.
Macaulay himself was the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who was ordained the first African Bishop of the Anglican Church in Nigeria in 1864, making Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, his great-great-great-grand daughter.
The Adadevoh family can trace their roots to the Creoles in Sierra Leone, Ghana and South-west Nigeria.
Ogun Detains Guinean Travellers
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, yesterday disclosed that four travellers coming into the country from Guinea through an illegal border area in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State have been detained and were being monitored by the state government in its efforts to prevent the spread of the dreaded Ebola virus.
Guinea was the first country where the virus was detected in West Africa almost six months ago before it spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Soyinka, who disclosed this at a press conference in his office in Abeokuta yesterday, said response teams have been put in place at the local government area levels who serve as surveillance teams.
According to him, they had been detained because they could not convince the border authorities that they had not been in contact with patients who had contacted the virus.
He added that the circumstances of their crossing was a bit worrying, "they were told until they could convince the authorities, they have to go back or if they were to come to Nigeria, they have to observe them”.
He explained that the travellers who were coming from Guinea en route Nigeria agreed to be in the area for monitoring for the next 21 days.
"So they are staying there, they are not being quarantined but agreed voluntarily to wait while they are being observed to ensure that they have no symptoms,” he said.
While reassuring residents that the state is free of the virus, Soyinka stated that in addition to further training of the healthcare workers, there was refresher information and further sensitisation at the border areas.
According to him, the state currently has three quarantine and isolation centres in each of the three senatorial districts of the state, and urged the public to cooperate fully with the efforts of the state government in the interest of their health.
He reiterated that the virus could only be contacted through body fluids of an infected person not by just sitting with the person, advising the public to maintain personal hygiene with regular hand washing and the use of sanitisers.
The commissioner further advised that unnecessary physical contact at public gatherings should be avoided, saying: “Do not travel to areas where the epidemic is active, avoid hunting and eating bush meat. If you suspect Ebola, contact the health authorities immediately.”
He said the state government was compiling a list of volunteers who could be called upon for a variety of tasks to alleviate the disease.
Source: Thisday

• Ameyo, Daughter of Kwaku Adadevoh, Great Grand Daughter of Herbert Macaulay, Dies
The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) struck at the heart of Nigeria, when Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, a consultant physician, and member of the illustrious Kwaku Adadevoh/Herbert Macaulay/Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowder lineage succumbed to the scourge of the disease.
Adadevoh contracted the virus from the Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who imported the disease into Nigeria.

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EVD: Doctor Adadevoh Finally Died Of Ebola Disease

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EVD: Ogun isolates 3 travellers from Guinea

Three travelers suspected to be Ebola virus carrier have been temporarily stopped from gaining entry to Ogun State and presently placed on a 21-day observation to determine their health status. This was disclosed Tuesday by the State Commissioner for Health, Olaokun Soyinka, at a press conference held in his office in Abeokuta. He disclosed that the suspects – two Guineans and a Nigerian – had travelled from Guinea and had wanted to enter Ogun State through an illegal border crossing in

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ASHIWAJU FACE OF THE WEEK

Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected as the 14th president of the ANC. Ramaphosa became deputy president after his election to the position in the ANC in 2012. At the time he was wooed by President Jacob Zuma’s camp to give the slate “credibility” when then ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe contested Zuma for the top post. Before that he was the chair of the national planning commission that produced the National Development Plan, the country’s blue print for growth towards 2030.

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Thursday

Bishop Ezeokafor Wants Late Dora Akunyili Immortalized

Genevieve Nnaji Emerges As The Richest Nigerian Celebrity

Check Out A Nigerian Who May Succeed nCameron As First Black British Prime Minister

Wednesday

PHOTONEWS: Check Out Where Prof. Dora Akunyili Will Be Buried, Like A National Museum

Chairman World Igbo Congress, Joseph Eto Arrested for Allege Fraud in USA

W-I-C-K-E-D-N-E-S-S: Man Rapes Seven-Year-Old Gril----Punch Metro

Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi And Others Receive Best Performing State on MDGs Goals Honour

EVD: Doctor Adadevoh Finally Died Of Ebola Disease

EVD: Doctor Adadevoh Finally Died Of Ebola Disease

EVD: Ogun isolates 3 travellers from Guinea

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