Texas college rejects Nigerian applicants, cites Ebola

At least two students from Nigeria who applied to a Texas college were told they wouldn’t be admitted because of Ebola.

Kamorudeen Abidogun, a Texas man originally from Nigeria, said he received two letters from Navarro College, a two-year community college with a campus about 58 miles from Dallas. Abidogun has five relatives in Nigeria who were applying to the school and who were using his home in Richmond, Texas, as a U.S. mailing address, he told CNBC.

The college rejected the applications, citing confirmed Ebola cases 

Ebola winning the race, says UN official Anthony Banbury

The UN’s Ebola mission chief says the world is falling behind in the race to contain the virus, with thousands of new cases predicted by December.
“It is running faster than us, and it is winning the race,” Anthony Banbury told the UN Security Council.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says 4,447 people have died from the outbreak, mainly in West Africa.
Meanwhile, a second health worker in the US state of Texas has become infected with the virus.
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea have been hardest hit by the epidemic, which began in December 2013 but was confirmed only in March.
In other developments:

Nigeria 3-1 Sudan: Musa and Samuel save Super Eagles

Second-half strikes from Ahmed Musa and Aaron Samuel have saved Nigeria‘s chances of defending their Afcon crown in 2015.Under-fire coach Stephen Keshi claimed his side’s qualifying campaign was being “sabotaged” ahead of the Group A clash in Abuja, with the African champions bottom of their pool following a 1-0 defeat against Sudan at the weekend.
Nigeria really needed a victory in order to give themselves a fighting chance of qualifying for next year’s tournament in Morocco and they finally got their first group win at the fourth attempt to ensure they moved above Sudan into third place.

EFCC withdraws charges against Ajudua in $1.69m fraud case

Reprieve came the way of Lagos socialite, Fred Ajudua Wednesday after a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja discharged him of an allegation of defrauding two Dutch businessmen of $1.69 million brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).Ajudua was charged alongside one Charles Orie for allegedly defrauding two Dutch businessmen of 1.69 million dollars.

Reps to begin voting on ammendment of 1999 Constitution

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, said that the house would begin clause-by-clause voting on the 71 harmonised and proposed amendments to the 1999 Constitution on Wednesday.

Tambuwal said this on Tuesday after the Deputy Speaker, Emeka Ihedioha, presented the report of the committee on the proposed constitution.

Buhari declares presidential bid

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Nigeria’s former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari declared he would run for president on Wednesday, criticising President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for corruption and failing to tackle the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.

His bid for the opposition ticket, if accepted, would pit him against Jonathan for a second time.

Addressing thousands of cheering supporters in a white traditional robe, dark glasses and a green skullcap, Buhari berated the government for failing to stamp out insecurity.

“Nearly all are in fear of their lives … due to insurgency by the godless movement called Boko Haram, by armed robbers on the highways, by kidnappers who have put whole communities to flight,” he said in his bid in the capital Abuja for the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket.

Thousands have died in Boko Haram’s increasingly bloody campaign to carve an Islamist state out of the religiously=mixed country, Africa’s biggest economic power and oil producer.

Jonathan, a Christian southerner, has yet to officially declare his intention to run, but is widely assumed to be going for another term. Abuja is festooned in smiling campaign posters touting his achievements and calling for “continuity”.

Lagos Targets Noise Pollution Control With ‘No Horn Day's

The Commissioner for Transport, Kayode Opeifa has said that the purpose of observing the “Lagos No Horn Day” is to have a noise pollution free day in Lagos.

The Commissioner told Channels Television on Wednesday that the containment of the Ebola Virus Disease showed that Nigerians could achieve whatever they want to achieve.

“Ebola was contained in Lagos properly and if we can contain Ebola that is not in our individual control, how much more something that we bought with our money, to be used for our comfort, then we can do without it,” he said.

Speaking as a guest on Sunrise Daily, Mr Opeifa referred to honking as an environmental and health issue, explaining that the noise level in the transportation sector is about 90 decimal according to World Health Organisation he stressed that the Lagos “No Horn Day” campaign was aimed at solving a public health issue through a social intervention idea.

“If you have a public health issue and you use social intervention to solve it, you get a better result.”

The Commissioner also explained that to further ensure the achievement of the noise polution free day, the state government had created lanes for both motorists and pedestrians.

He emphasised that if people adhere to the signs by staying on their lanes honking would be less. “My administration is not afraid of taking a bold step or making mistake and that is because we would be accused for not making an effort,” the Commissioner for Transport said.

Mr Opeifa also said that accidents caused on the roads were sometimes due to human error, attributed to impatience. “Noise pollution causes the adrenaline level to rise, it makes one get aggressive and it also triggers loss of hearing capacity. If there is a need to honk, especially when it comes to saving a life, then it should be used.

The Commissioner noted that, “since the governor said it was looking at controlling the use of horn, his driver had not used the horn for a year now.