Boko Haram takes over Police Academy

Northern Nigeria’s riot police training academy has been overrun by Boko Haram Islamist militants, a witness in Borno State.

A riot police training academy near Gwoza, Borno State has been overrun by Boko Haram militants.

A witness told the British Broadcasting Corporation that shots were heard after the militants arrived in three Armoured Personnel Carriers and on dozens of motorcycles.

2 Spouses of Primary contact with Patrick Sawyer have Ebola- Health Minister

Nigeria has recorded two new Ebola cases, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, announced Friday.

Professor Chukwu, said the new cases are spouses of the primary contacts of the index case, Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought the virus to Nigeria.

 He said the new cases are the first secondary contacts to test positive to the deadly virus that has killed five people in Nigeria.

The secondary contacts had been under surveillance since the outbreak of the disease in Nigeria, Mr. Chukwu added.

pictures of the police officer who shot and killed unarmed Michael Brown

Left is a pic of Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown on a street in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9th.

Eye-witnesses said Michael was shot multiple times by officer Wilson as he turned around with his hands up. Wilson claims the teenager rushed at him full speed before he opened fire.

Meanwhile a woman who claims to have witnessed the shooting has released a video showing officer Wilson pacing back and forth beside the lifeless body of Michael Brown in the street. See the screenshots from the video after the cut...

Liberia issues ‘shoot on sight’ order on Sierra Leonean immigrants

Liberia’s armed forces have reportedly been given orders to shoot people trying to illegally cross the border from neighbouring Sierra Leone, which was closed to stem the spread of ebola. Soldiers stationed in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount counties, which border Sierra Leone, were to “shoot on sight” any person trying to cross the border, said deputy chief of staff, Colonel Eric Dennis.


The order came after border officials reported that people have continued to cross the porous border illegally. Previously, Grand Cape Mount county had 35 known “illegal entry points,” according to immigration commander Colonel Samuel Mulbah. Illegal crossings were a major health threat, said Mulbah, “because we don’t know the health status of those who cross at night.”

Bomb scare in Lagos, suspected suicide bomber arrested

There was bomb scare at Lagos Airport Monday as a disabled man wearing canisters around his neck was arrested at the annex office of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, office located inside the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.

The suspect, who is a disabled man, was nabbed by airport security operatives who later handed him over to the police and was subsequently taken to the Airport Police headquarters along the Ikeja- Airport road.

Ebola patients: Four recover, discharged from hospital

Four Nigerians diagnosed with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have got the all-clear and discharged from the hospital


The two male doctors, a female nurse and a patient on admission at the First Consultant Hospital when the late Patrick Sawyer was admitted, were found to be Ebola positive, bringing to five the number of Nigerians cleared of the deadly disease in the last 72 hours.

All the 12 confirmed EVD cases in Nigeria came from primary contact with tindex care – the late Liberian-American Sawyer who came into Nigeria on July 20, fell ill aboard the Asky airline plane that brought him from Lome, Togo.