'Go ahead and sue me' - Australian negotiator tells Alimodu Sheriff

Australian negotiator Stephen Davis has dared former Borno state governor, Alimodu Sheriff to sue him for saying he's one of the sponsors of Boko Haram. Mr Sheriff had threatened to sue at a press conference on Wednesday.

Speaking with TheCable today, Davis said if Alimodu Sheriff goes to court, evidences to prove he has connections with the sect will be produced.

"He is worried, is he? He knows that if he goes to court, the evidence will be produced and he cannot escape justice. Let him go to court if that is what he wishes. It is his right to do so. He will not be able to avoid close examination and then the facts will be known. Good luck to him if he decides to sue me in Australia. He can’t buy the judges here. Truth is not for sale. Australia has zero toleration for those who might sponsor terrorism." Continue...

No one should be above the law whether in Australia or Nigeria. Justice must be served for every Nigerian killed, every girl and boy kidnapped, every girl raped, every person who has lost their home in the course of this violence. It seems to me the extent of involvement of every person named by Boko Haram as a sponsor should be closely and thoroughly examined by the correct authorities. I read his defence on the media this week. Rather than come out as a statement of facts, it read like a novel of unconvincing fiction. In the last 48 hours, I have been in touch with some commanders of the group and they maintain their stand on Sheriff’s involvement. Sheriff’s ploy of casting himself as a victim is a poor attempt at disguising his sponsorship as alleged by the Boko Haram commanders.” he said

Fraudster in EFCC net for Abuja land grab

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A suspected fraudster who attempted to fraudulently assume ownership of a prime plot of land in the Maitama district of Abuja, belonging to a member of the famous Dantata family of Kano has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. 

Mohammed Awwal alias Nasiru Abdulkadir Dantata was arrested by operatives of the Commission sequel to a report from the Department of Land Administration, Federal Territory Administration (FCTA) Abuja. Continue...

The suspect, who was parading himself as Nasiru Abdulkadir Dantata, was in possession of the original Right of Occupancy of Plot No. 2068 Cadastral Zone A05, Maitama District, Abuja, along with several other forged documents.

Upon his arrest and subsequent investigation, ‘Nasiru Abdulkadir Dantata’ was discovered to be the same as Mohammed Awwal but assumed the false identity of Dantata in a desperate bid to hoodwinked unsuspecting members of the public into believing that he is the bona fide owner of title to the property.

Several forged and incriminating documents and two international passports bearing different names were recovered from his house upon a search executed after his arrest.

In one of the passports, the suspect with the name Mohammed Awwal is said to be a native of Katsina while he bears Nasiru Abdulkadir Dantata in another passport in which he claims to be from Kano State.

He was also discovered to be in possession of a suspicious local government indigene certificate where he bears the name Haruna Lawal Muhammed, from Batsari local government area of Katsina State.

'All schools to resume September 22nd' - FG

The Federal government has directed all primary and secondary schools to resume on Monday September 22nd. The resumption date for schools had earlier been postponed to October 13th as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria.

Daisy Danjuma's son, Yuki Omenai and wife welcome son

Yuki Omenai, son of Senator Daisy Danjuma and his beautiful wife, Moriam have welcomed their first child. Moriam gave birth to a baby boy on Monday September 1st. The couple got married in May this year in Spain. Congrats to them.

Doctors Without Borders in Port Harcout to help fight Ebola

Nigeria's Minister of Health Professor Chukwu arrived Port Harcourt this morning to visit the Ebola Isolation & Emergency Operation Centre. Pictured above are doctors from humanitarian group 'Doctors Without Borders' who are currently in Port Harcourt to help fight the deadly disease. More pics after the cut...

A health worker dressed in personal protective equipment at d #Ebola centre

#Ebola isolation centre in Emuoha LGA Rivers State

Minister of Health inspects UPTH Port Harcourt

Minister of Health inspects NCDC lab for # Ebola diagnosis at UPTH PH

Health workers at d #Ebola isolation centre gives '#Ebola greeting' to d minister,

3rd American Ebola patient arrives U.S for treatment

The third American doctor to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus arrived Nebraska about an hour to begin his treatment. Dr Richard Sacra (pictured above) contracted the deadly virus while working in Liberia. Dr Sacra wasn't treating Ebola patients when he was infected.

He was today flown to the Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment patient care unit, one of the four facilities in America designed specifically to treat patients exposed to extremely dangerous infectious organisms.

Two other Americans were recently treated of the deadly virus using the experimental drug, ZMapp.

WHO holds urgent talks on Ebola treatments

World health experts meet in Geneva for talks on fast-tracking experimental drugs, as death toll rises in west Africa.

A WHO spokesman said the official death toll from Ebola was likely a gross underestimate [File pic]

World health experts are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland for the second day of urgent talks on fast-tracking experimental Ebola drugs, as doctors in the worst-hit African countries pleaded to be given the serums. With no fully tested treatments for Ebola, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has endorsed potential cures like ZMapp to be rushed out. "Everybody keeps asking why isn't this medication made available to our people out there?" Samuel Kargbo, from Sierra Leone's ministry of health, told the AFP news agency. ZMapp has been given to about 10 health workers who contracted the virus, including Americans and Europeans, three of whom recovered. Info Its stocks have been exhausted, but the WHO said a few hundred doses could potentially be ready by the end of the year. "Our doctors who have been treating patients are also dying, and it's not made available," Kargbo said. The two-day closed-door meeting of about 200 health experts in Geneva is discussing eight potential therapies, as well as two experimental vaccines. 'None clinically proven' "None are clinically proven," the WHO stressed in a working document for the meeting, adding that "while extraordinary measures are now in place to accelerate the pace of clinical trials, new treatments or vaccines are not expected for widespread use before the end of 2014". The agency warned that the death toll in the epidemic, which is centred on Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, was still growing fast. "The outbreak is rising," WHO chief Margaret Chan told reporters in Washington on Wednesday, putting the death toll at "more than 1,900". "The current west African Ebola outbreak is unprecedented in size, complexity and the strain it has imposed on health systems," the WHO said in a statement, acknowledging the "intense" public demand for a treatment. The race to ready experimental drugs comes as affected countries are struggling to contain the outbreak, which was first detected in Guinea at the start of the year. WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said the official death toll was likely a gross underestimate. "Many deaths are in the community and are not being reported. It is estimated that there are two to four times as many people infected with Ebola as reported," he told AFP by email. At least 30 more people have died in a separate outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. US doctor treated In hardest-hit Liberia, which counts a 871 deaths out of 1,698 cases, medical sources said on Thursday that US doctor Rick Sacra, who was infected while working at the ELWA hospital in Monrovia, was en route to the airport to be repatriated. Sacra, the third US aid worker to contract the virus, is expected to arrive on Friday at a Nebraska hospital for treatment in a special isolation unit. He had opted to head to Liberia after hearing that two other missionaries were sick. He served with the North Carolina-based charity SIM. Bruce Johnson, SIM's president, said Sacra had been receiving excellent care at a centre in Liberia, but that the Nebraska facility provides advanced monitoring equipment and has a wider availability of treatment options.