A meeting of the Ukraine Contact Group in Minsk on Monday should discuss an immediate and unconditional ceasefire, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

An emergency National Council on Health, NCH, meeting is holding today in Abuja following the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, outside Lagos.

The meeting will be the third in series since the outbreak of the disease in West Africa.

Lights went off temporarily overnight in most cities on the Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in March, with local leaders accusing Kiev of sabotage.

When HIV/AIDS was discovered in the US in the early 1980s, nobody believed it would reach a point that Africa would become the epicentre .The whites that were infected accepted their fate and ensured that they lived positively,informing anybody they were to have sexual contacts with about their health status, and ensuring that condoms were used correctly.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said Nigerians must hold President Goodluck Jonathan personally responsible if the Ebola Virus Disease spreads more than it has done in the country, after he failed to stop a rally in his support in Port Harcourt on Saturday, despite warning from individuals and groups. In a statement issued on […]

There comes a time in a woman’s life when she has to decide who to settle with and make a go for him. Laila had once briefly engaged to her childhood sweetheart who took off with one of her close friends. Now approaching 30, she’s been involved with Joseph, a photographer who runs his own studio. “He specialises in society events and sells photographs to most of these society magazines”, explained Laila. “She’d taken so much time and money setting up his business that he didn’t give marriage a thought until he was convinced he could look after a prospective family.

I read, in the August 29 edition of Thisday Newspaper, the grave allegations made by an Australian by the name of Mr. Stephen Davis about those that he believes are behind Boko Haram.

He made some very serious allegations; he mentioned names and I would be interested in seeing the hard evidence that he claims to have.

He and his wife-to-be had lofty dreams of living fulfilled lives and raising wonderful children together. She was two months pregnant and their traditional marriage had been fixed for October.

THE new Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Rev. Raphael Nwoye, will be sworn in today inside the Executive Council chamber, even as the last may not have been heard concerning the impeachment of the former Deputy Governor, Sunday Onyebuchi by the State House of Assembly.

A new club named after President Goodluck Jonathan has been registered to compete in the 2014/2015 season of the Nigeria Nation Wide League.

Akure—THE Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi weekend said the Corps would set up Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, screening centres in orientation camps across the country to check the spread of the dreaded EVD.

BARELY 16 hours after it disqualified the acting governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, from contesting the October 11 gubernatorial by- election in Adamawa State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, cleared him to contest the election.

The Rivers Commissioner for Health, Dr Sampson Parker, on Sunday in Port Harcourt said three persons have been moved to the state’s treatment centre for observation on the Ebola disease.

ILORIN—Chairman, Assets Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, Alhaji Kola Belgore, weekend in Ilorin, Kwara State, claimed the federal government was wasting N3.4 billion monthly to pay the salaries of workers who were doing nothing at the Ajaokuta Steel Complex, ASC, in Kogi, State.

FIVE persons, a man and two of his children and two others were confirmed dead on Friday in the village of Uchenyim , Wanikade, North Ukelle in northern Cross River State after eating the meat of a dog.