.The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu Wednesday cautioned that Nigerians should not be carried away with euphoria over the successful containment of the Ebola Virus Disease, saying that the risk of transmission still exist as long as there is still Ebola Virus disease in west Africa.

French flag carrier Air France said it was suspending its flights to Sierra Leone from Thursday, amid an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo held a closed-door meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan over the problems of insecurity occasioned by Boko Haram attacks among others.

Zimbabwe riot police detained more than a dozen opposition protesters and beat up others at a demonstration on Wednesday over high unemployment, an AFP correspondent witnessed.

A military training jet crashed in south Yemen on Wednesday, killing its pilot, an army officer told AFP.

Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o said on Wednesday that there was no bad blood between him and Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho after completing his move to Everton.

ALL truly concerned stakeholders, honest observers and indeed, dispassionate analysts, are already dilating on not only who takes the baton from incumbent Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, but how he/she will emerge as preparations gather momentum by the day.

Boko Haram’s declaration of a caliphate in Nigeria may have been prompted by the attention heaped on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, experts said, but the pronouncement may have deeper roots.

TWENTY THREE years after its creation, Governor Theodore Orji Wednesday said that Abia State “remains a major work in progress” in terms of development.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde, one of the world’s most powerful women, announced Wednesday she had been charged with “negligence” over a multi-million-euro graft case relating to her time as French finance minister.

THE Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the 2015 presidential election would emerge November, three months to the election.

A group, De Servant yesterday called on the leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and other political parties to support the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, stop the rising criticism saying Jonathan is God sent.

Following is a factfile on the main drugs to tackle the Ebola virus, which has claimed more than 1,400 lives in five African countries since December

Li Luming carefully straightens a table cloth in his empty restaurant in Sierra Leone’s capital as he laments the damage Ebola has done to business

AHEAD the October 11 gubernatorial election in Adamawa and primary election by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP fixed for September 6, strong indications emerged yesterday crisis looms in the Adamawa state chapter of PDP as stakeholders in the state have continued to criticise the allege move by the acting governor, Ahmadu Umar Fintiri to recruit the state party chairman, Chief Joel Madaki to work towards the actualisation of his governorship ambition.