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Do You listen or read current News? If you've been paying attention to the news recently, you've probably heard that several countries in western Africa are currently contending with the world's deadliest Ebola outbreak. A fast-spreading Ebola epidemic has sparked states of emergency in overwhelmed west African nations as the death toll neared 1000 and an elderly Spanish missionary flew home for treatment. In Liberia, where the dead lay in the streets, MPs gathered to ratify a state of emergency while Sierra Leone sent troops to guard hospitals and clinics handling Ebola cases. Nigeria held out hope it could receive an experimental US-developed drug to halt the spread of the virus. Since breaking out earlier this year, the epidemic has claimed 932 lives and infected more than 1700 people across west Africa, according to the World Health Organisation  The patients all presented with potential Ebola-like symptoms (such as fever, gastrointestinal distress, headache), and ...

"We've got to let the science guide us and I don't think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful," Obama said. "The Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place." But he said: "the countries affected are the first to admit that what's happened here is the public health systems have been overwhelmed. They weren't able to identify and then isolate cases quickly enough." "As a consequence, it spread more rapidly than has been typical with the periodic Ebola outbreaks that occurred previously." The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it would ask medical ethics experts to explore emergency use of experimental treatments. There is no known cure for Ebola, a haemorrhagic fever that has overwhelmed rudimentary healthcare systems and prompted the deployment of troops to quarantine the worst-hit areas in the remote border region of...

The current news about Ebola is no longer cheering as more people are getting infected, A leading British public health doctor says western drug companies have no reason to cure the deadly Ebola virus because it mostly affects "powerless minority groups"  The international community has failed to deal with the deadly Ebola virus because it mainly kills poor Africans, Britain’s top public health doctor has claimed. Dr John Ashton, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, compared the situation to the early years of the AIDS epidemic and attacked the “moral bankruptcy” of a system which gives drug companies no reason to invest in treatments for “powerless minority groups”. Writing in the Independent on Sunday, he said: “We must respond to this emergency as if it was in Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster. And we must ‘get real’ over economic development. “We must also tackle the scandal of the unwillingness of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in research to produ...

While the Argentine s were playing defensive game hoping for penalties, the Germans were busy looking for a winning goal which Mario Gotze finally gave them at second half of extra time "Overall Germany deserve it. Argentina, we had glimpses of what they could do but they stuttered their way through the tournament. Tonight I feel sorry for them because they had chances at key moments but they did not take them. "Germany have ground it out but if you are going to score a goal that is worthy of winning the World Cup that was certainly it from Mario Gotze."

So sad for Neymar's fan and Brazilians, 2014 World Cup lost one of its star players to a nasty injury on Friday when Brazil's striker Neymar broke his third vertebrae after being kneed in his back by Colombia defender Juan Camilo Zuniga. A doctor ruled Neymar will not play in any more World Cup matches

Nigeria to meet France today in the ongoing Brazil 2014 world cup, Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama says “We fear nobody,” the 31-year-old with magnetic gloves said. “We have a culture for football. It’s our way of life. To be honest, we have great confidence in ourselves. We respect the French team but we are not afraid of any team in this competition”, he sounded. "Lets give France the shock of their life"  Joseph Yobo who guns for his 10oth cap for Nigeria was as emphatic as Enyeama when he told his team mates that they have nothing to fear when they play France today. “We’ve just played against the best forward in the world(Lionel Messi, Angel Di Maria, Aguero), so we’re ready to measure ourselves against anybody. I don’t see what we should be afraid of. I believe in this team, and I think we can do it”.

At the end of Ekiti election the Returning Officer for the 2014 governorship elections and Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Professor Isaac Azuzu announced the results of the governorship elections in Ekiti State declaring the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Ayodele Fayose, who was governor of Ekiti State from 29 May 2003 to 16 October 2006, winner of the contest. Mr Fayose had a total of 203,090 votes to defeat other candidates who participated in the exercise. APC candidate and incumbent governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi had 120,433 votes. Fayose also defeated  Labour Party’s Opeyemi  Bamidele who  had  18, 135 votes. The Returning Officer, before announcing the results, called on the agents of the various political parties that participated in the elections to sign for the results sheet which indicates that they agree to the process and the election result. Professor Azuzu said ” I wish to announce that Dr Tope Aluko of the ...