PERENNIAL presidential friends, public supporters of launchings and newer arrivals who preferred to dissolve in anonymity, shelled out over N58 billion in one night for the Terror Victims’ Fund. The performance exceeded the President’s expectations by N8 billion.

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it was convening an ethics meeting next week to explore the use of experimental treatment in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

-Tragedy struck on Tuesday at a beer parlour in Odeogun Quarters area of Idi Iroko, Ogun State when a-63-year old man, Izora Michael, slumped and died shortly before drinking a bottle of beer .

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu levelled the blame for civilian casualties and destruction in the Gaza Strip at the door of Hamas Wednesday after a month of bitter fighting.

The Federal Government has formally requested for the experimental drugs being developed by the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the treatment of the Ebola victims.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday banned or limited food and agricultural product imports for a year from nations that have imposed sanctions on Russia over its stance on Ukraine.

An Austrian waging a battle against Facebook’s privacy policies said Wednesday that 25,000 users of the social networking giant have signed on to his class action lawsuit.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked INEC to urgently circulate to all political parties the Voters Identification Numbers (VINs) of all unclaimed Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) and publicly declare that anyone in possession of any PVC with any of such numbers is an impostor who must be arrested if he or she tries to use it.

Operatives of Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Commission have quizzed two top officials of the Ministry of Works in Ogun state for allegedly violating the corrupt practices and other related offences Act 2000.

Mr Oliver Wolugbom, the Rivers Director of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), on Wednesday advised politicians to always accept defeat after elections, to strengthen public confidence in the country’s electoral system.