Guinea declared an Ebola outbreak that has killed 377 in the nation a “health emergency” Wednesday and more flights from hard-hit west African countries were cancelled as the region awaited shipments of experimental vaccine.

THE Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Mukhtar will on Monday August 18, 2014 preside over the launching of the book ‘Corruption and Human Rights Law in Africa’, written? by Dr. Kolawole Olaniyan? of Amnesty International in London.

Nigeria have edged England with a 2-1 comeback win to top Group C, leaving the Europeans to head for home. Nigeria have a strong tradition of success at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup and displayed their fortitude by coming from a goal down to secure this decisive win.

SCIENTISTS say they have found how the lethal Ebola virus blocks and disables the body’s ability to battle infections in a discovery that should help the search for potential cures and vaccines. A group of scientists in the United States found that Ebola carries a protein called VP24 that interferes with a molecule called interferon, which is vital to the immune response.

There is heavy security presence in Uyo, the Akwa-Ibom State capital and other urban centres of the state as President Goodluck Jonathan visits the state today to commission a gas processing facility, including a 69-kilometre gas pipeline at Uquo-Ibeno.