President Goodluck Jonathan arrived Washington DC this afternoon for the US-Africa Summit which will begin tomorrow, August 4.
According to Presidential Spokesman Reuben Abati, contrary to earlier reports, no presidential aides were subjected to Ebola test.
President Jonathan was welcomed by Nigerians in Diaspora & PDP America. They sang the national anthem and proclaimed #UnitedAgainstBH. See more photos below...
Dr Sid and Simi Osomo's wedding cake is so lovely. Simi wore three different beautiful dresses on her big day. See below...
Actress Uche Ogbodo, who recently split with hubby Ato Ubby, has welcomed her first child - a baby girl.
"Thanks a lot.. God bless you but I have a girl not a boy.." the new mom took to Twitter to break the news.
Congratulations to her.
The Federal Government has developed short term intervention strategy to add 370mmcf/d gas supply that will push up power generation capacity to 5,000 megawatts within the next five months.
This step is under a new cross sectoral approach conceived by the Ministries of Petroleum Resources, Power, National Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and other stakeholders to address inadequate electricity supply in the country.
The new target of 5,000 MW is however a shortfall from the earlier projected 6000MW which Federal Government targets to achieve by December.
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke revealed this yesterday, in Abuja, while addressing a joint press conference to unveil the new development. She said the CBN would pay off N25 billion legacy debt owed to gas suppliers in order to restore confidence to stakeholders.
The minister said the government had resolved to find a lasting solution to abysmal power supply in the country.
Simi Osomo is now offically Mrs. Esiri.
Dr. Sid and his beautiful bride today in Lagos had their white wedding.
Happy married life to them! See another photo below...
Ebola virus is a severe, often fatal illness. Around 90% of people who catch the disease will die, according to World Health Organization (WHO).
The current Ebola Virus outbreak in West Africa has claimed 729 lives since February, and infected over 1,000 people.
I'm sure you know it's already in Nigeria. DavidvsNaija brings you tips on how to prevent Ebola virus.
What you need to know
Transmission
Ebola is extremely contagious, and is transmitted through contact with body fluids such as saliva, blood, semen, or body discharges.
Treatment
Currently, there is no treatment or cure for Ebola. Victims are treated with the hope that they will recover.
However, new reports state that the United States is currently developing a drug which could be a cure for Ebola, however; it has not been approved yet.
Symptoms
The early symptoms of the virus are said to mimic the symptoms of malaria or flu at first. In general, it takes about 2-21 days for symptoms to become visible.
According to reports , people who have the virus aren't contagious until symptoms become visible.
Early Symptoms
Late symptoms
The regional overseer of pastor Lawrence Okechukwu Amuruche of Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries who claimed that the General Overseer Pastor D.K. Olukoya gave him prayer points, anointing oil and water instead of the money needed to treat the cataracts growing in one of his eyes, have said Amuruche lied against the church.
Amuruche was ordered to retract the statement, and in the company of his Regional overseer and two other leaders, he visited the headquarters of The Sun, where he had granted the interview.
He didn't speak throughout, but the Regional Overseer said;
"He lied against the church. His children who are based abroad, called to express their dissatisfaction over the publication. He did not only embarrass himself but his family, the church and some of us who are his friends in the church.
It is embarrassing because MFM has come to the point that if it comes to the area of assisting or helping people, we are really very good at that and the testimonies are all over the world on the kind of miracles, signs and wonders that happen in MFM.
We are a church that believes in the power of the Holy Ghost. We are a deliverance ministry and we don't believe that there is no problem that God cannot solve but we still believe that some illness could be organic. There could still be some illness that could result to somebody still going to the hospital and going through surgical operation.
The man in question is under full employment of the church. Common sense will tell you that anyone who is under the full employment of the church, if you want to go to the hospital, can ask for salary advance or loan from the people that you are working for.
The organization that you are working for has a provision for loan and assisting people who make request for assistance. Amuruche did not make any request from his Regional Overseer neither did he make any request from the General Overseer. It is a very big insult to the church. He did not tell anybody in the church that he needs money to go to hospital. He lied against the church.
He is an assistant pastor in the church and he earns money form the church. It was from the newspaper publication that I got to know that he has an eye problem.
Before the publication, he came for our regional meeting and he never mentioned to me that he has any eye problem. I do not doubt that he has not mentioned to anybody.
He told you people that he went to our General Overseer for counseling who gave him anointing oil instead of money. He did not in anyway visit him for that purpose. If you want to go to any hospital for operation and the hospital has diagnosed that you need to go for operation, you don't need to go for counseling or means of getting your healing. You just go straight away and apply to the church that you want to go for operation. He did not follow the normal proceeding of getting medical help from the church.
There is one of our members in Festac, a security man, they just discharged him recently. It was the church that paid for his operation.
There are several instances that the church has given money even to those that are not our members. He has to tell people his problem before they can find ways to solve it. If he claims that he has written an application, let him quote the date he wrote the application and where it was submitted, we are in a modern society.
The issue is not whether he is blind or not but the fact that he never asked the church for assistance. We have very good welfare package for people. Daddy Olukoya gives scholarships and honors first class students, this is one out of many things that he has extended to members of the church."
Waje was asked by a fan during an online interactive session yesterday, #AskWaje, if she could slap her mom for $600m.
The singer said her mom would even advice her to do it.
Lol chai $600m is a huge sum of money... But can you slap your mom for it?
Chika Ike is one of reality TV star Kim Kardashian's biggest fans.
"I totally love her", Chika Ike says as she compares herself to Kim Kardashian rocking the same look.
So who nailed it? Chika Ike or Kim Kardashian?
Phyno is currently in Texas, USA for a reported video shoot, and he seems to be having lots of fun.
The rapper was spotted at a strip club with KCee 's manager Sosoberekon, alongside stacks of cash and big bootied stripper ladies.
See another photo below...
Late Professor Dora Nkem Akunyili's family has released a week-long programme of activities for her funeral. The former Minister of Information and Communications will be buried on August 28, 2014.
The programme, released on Thursday in Enugu by Professor Akunyili's husband, Dr Chike Akunyili, starts with a Christian wake keep on Friday, August 22, by 4:00pm, at No. 2A, Bishop Onyeabor St., G.R.A., Enugu.
A night of tributes is to hold at International Conference Centre, Abuja, from 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 25, while a mass would be held for her on Tuesday, August 26, by 10:00am at Pro-Cathedral Catholic Church, Abuja.
After the church service, Dora's body would leave for Enugu, where there would be a mass at KSJ Temple at 4:00 p.m. After a high requiem mass at Holy Ghost Cathedral, Enugu, at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 27, Dora's body would be taken to UNCOMA Hall, College of Medicine, Ituku Ozalla, Enugu, for final college assembly by 11:30 a.m. From there, the body would be taken to Awka for Anambra State Government activities, then to Dora's father's house in Nanka, before being returned to her husband's house at Agulu for a vigil mass/wake keep.
On Thursday, August 28, Dora's body would lie in state at John Chike Akunyili's Compound before leaving for Agulu town hall, then Madonna Catholic Church, Agulu, for a requiem mass by 10:00 a.m. Interment at John Chike Akunyili's compound follows at 1:30 p.m.
It will be recalled that Professor Akunyili, a former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), died on Saturday, June 7, after a two-year battle with cancer.
Professor Akunyili, who was a delegate to the ongoing National Conference in Abuja, would have turned 60 on July 14, 2014.
An Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has being named the acting Inspector-General of Police by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Abba, who until his appointment was the AIG in charge of Zone 7, takes over from Muhammed Abubakar, who proceeded on statutory retirement on Thursday.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, who confirmed the change of guard in the police top echelons in a statement, said Abba's appointment would take effect from Friday (today).
The former IG had led Abba to a private meeting with the President shortly before his appointment was made public.
In an interaction with State House correspondents after the meeting, Abubakar thanked Nigerians for their support.
He described the position of an IG as challenging but said the experience was worthwhile.
