From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar Caritas Nigeria and JDPC, the humanitarian and human development organs of the Catholic Church in Nigeria, Thursday in Calabar said “persistent’’ insurgency in Nigeria’s North East zone required humanitarian intervention. They spoke through Rev. Fr. Evaristus Bassey, the Executive Secretary of Caritas Nigeria/ JDPC,... Read more
Health Workers on Tuesday discharged patients who access health services at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Yenagoa following an indefinite strike by health workers in the institution. The strike death a heavy blow on the preparedness of Bayelsa Government to contain the dreaded Ebola Virus as the... Read more
Nurse Who Reportedly Escaped Lagos Ebola Quarantine Not Obi Justina Ejelonu.
Nigeria August 14, 2014
Friends of the Nigerian nurse infected with the Ebola virus while treating the Liberian America, Sawyer who took the disease to Nigeria have dismissed reports that the nurse who escaped from the Lagos Ebola Quarantine Centre was Justina Ejelonu. In a release made available to www.Africanewscircle.com, Justina’s friends also condemned... Read more
Nigerians Plead For Ebola Trial Drug From U.S Govt., As Bayelsa Sets Up103 Survellance Centres, 18-Member Committee
Nigeria August 10, 2014
Using the various social media platforms, Nigerians are pleading with President Barack Obama and the United States Food and Drug Administration to ignore all bureaucratic bottlenecks and make available to Nigeria, the anti-Ebola vaccine, ZMapp, for the treatment of a young nurse, Justina Ejelonu, who was infected with the Ebola Virus in the... Read more
From: Arodiegwu Eziukwu, Yenogoa Fire on Sunday gutted an oil spill site within an oil field operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) at Ayambele and Kalaba communities in Yenagoa Local Government of Bayelsa. The spill site currently being remediated by SPDC was polluted by an oil... Read more
From: Arodiegwu Eziukwu, Yenogoa. Gov Seriake Dickson 0f Bayelsa and the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) on Friday expressed sadness following the death of foremost Ijaw Musician, King Robert Ebizimor. Ebizimor lost his life on Friday in a fatal road accident along the Warri-Sapele road in Delta. ... Read more
From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar Prof. Attahiru Jega, Chairman, National Electoral Commission (INEC) has restated the commission’s resolve to ensure a successful distribution of Permanent voters’s card to eligible voters nationwide. He stated this in Calabar Friday at the flag-off of a two-day workshop for Electoral Officers in Anambra;... Read more
From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar. The People of oil rich Eket Local Government area in Akwa Ibom state Wednesday decried the non-establishment of the Oil Mineral Producing Communities Commission in the state as it called on America to intervene on the issue of oil spill in coastal areas. But Mobil Producing... Read more
From: Arodiegwu Eziukwu, Yenogoa. Following last week’s pirates attack in Bayelsa waterways that left three dead, the daring gunmen stuck again twice on Wednesday. Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, however repelled the attacks from suspected pirates on a flow station at Ogboinbiri, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of... Read more
Prominent Itsekiri Leaders have advised Deltans at home and abroad not to focus on gender but to look at the individual personalities, the person’s qualities and what he or she has to offer in electing their next governor. The leaders who made their views known on Sunday described the... Read more
