By Graphitti News with Agency Reports (National/International)
Today’s look at headlines, late-breaking news,
upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:
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Jacob Festus Ade-Ajayi - Photo credit: http://ladajay.blogspot.com/
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1. ADE AJAYI, FORMER UNILAG VC, DIES AT 85
Renowned historian and a former Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Lagos, Prof. Ade Ajayi, has passed on. Although his family had
not released an official statement as of 8 pm press time on Sunday, a reliable
source said he died at the University College Hospital, Ibadan on Saturday.
The newly re-elected Governor of Osun State, Rauf
Aregbesola, has described the massive federal security deployment for the poll
Saturday a “declaration of war”, and his victory a “strong message” to President
Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
3. 40 PER CENT OF GOODS IN NIGERIA ARE SUBSTANDARD,
COUNTERFEIT – SON
The use of counterfeit products is very dangerous.
Counterfeit destroys the economy. Counterfeit is like termite, it eats up
the foundation of the house. Before one knows what is happening, the
house is brought down to the foundation – DG, SON
4. NATIONAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES TO
DRAFT FINAL REPORT TODAY
Delegates
to the National Conference will today, Monday, August 11, 2014, draft final
report.
5. EBOLA VACCINE FOR TRIAL NEXT MONTH – WHO
Clinical
trials of a preventative vaccine for the Ebola virus made by British
pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, may begin next month and be made
available by 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
6. NASARAWA IMPEACHMENT: AGAIN, GOV. AL-MAKURA, PDP IN
WAR OF WORDS
The crisis between the executive and the legislative
arms of the Nasarawa State Government is deepening with the Governor, Tanko
Al-Makura, saying the fleeing lawmakers are on self-exile.
7. BOKO HARAM: TROOPS KILL 50, LOSE TWO SOLDIERS TO RECLAIM DAMBOA
Troops moved swiftly at the weekend to regain Borno
State town Dambowa from Boko Haram insurgents. In the process, troops killed 50
insurgents and lost two soldiers. The troops survived five ambushes to reclaim
the town which had been held by the insurgents for about one month. The Special
Forces and more troops have been deployed in Gwoza where more than 150 people
had been killed by the insurgents, it was gathered.
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| Smoke from fires caused by Israeli strikes rises over Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) |
8. NEW GAZA TRUCE BEGINS
If it holds, the cease-fire could clear the way for
resumption of talks for a long-term halt in the fighting that has claimed some
2,000 lives.
9. WHO RESISTS CALLS TO RESIGN
As even his closest allies push for him to quit,
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accuses the country's new president of
violating the constitution, plunging the government into a political crisis
amid advances by Islamic State militants.
10. POLICE SHOOTING OF 18-YEAR-OLD BLACK MAN IN MO.
SPARKS PROTESTS
The death of Michael Brown, who was unarmed, also
draws the attention of civil rights leaders and the Justice Department.
11. 25 YEARS AGO, FIRST EBOLA OUTBREAK IN US
The disease showed up in monkeys quarantined in
Reston, Virginia., but that strain was nonlethal to humans.
12. NIGERIAN IN HONG KONG TESTS NEGATIVE TO EBOLA
VIRUS
The deadly Ebola epidemic continued to raise concerns
across the world yesterday, as fear gripped the residents of a Hong Kong
neighbourhood when they heard that a Nigerian who had just returned from one of
the Ebola-stricken West African countries had diarrhoea and was vomiting. The
Nigerian man, who had arrived in the city on Thursday, was rushed to the
hospital Saturday morning with vomiting and diarrhoea, which are the early
symptoms of the virus. However, some relief came the way of the people of Hong
Kong when the laboratory tests came back negative for Ebola yesterday.
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