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collates national and international late-breaking news, upcoming events and the
stories that will be talked about Wednesday:
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| Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh.... Photo Credit: @KwamiAdadevoh via Twitter |
1. NIGERIAN DOCTOR, ADADEVOH, WHO TREATED SAWYER, EBOLA IMPORTER, DIES
Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the senior consultant
endocrinologist who became infected with the deadly Ebola virus while treating
the Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, died Tuesday, medical authorities said.
Ms. Adadevoh died in an isolation facility of the
Mainland Hospital, Lagos, bringing to five the number of people the highly
contagious virus has killed in Nigeria.
2. LIBERIA IMPOSES CURFEW IN EBOLA-STRICKEN SLUM
The country's president also ordered security forces
to quarantine the neighborhood, home to at least 50,000 people.
3. SIERRA
LEONE'S 365 EBOLA DEATHS TRACED BACK TO ONE HEALER |
| Members of the artist group Be Kok Spirit hold a placard reading "Ebola, go away" as they march to raise awareness on the Ebola virus in Abidjian on August 19, 2014. Ivory Coast announced on August 11, 2014, that it had banned all flights from countries hit by Ebola as part of steps to prevent the deadly virus from reaching the West African nation. AFP PHOTO | SIA KAMBOU |
It has laid waste to the
tribal chiefdoms of Sierra Leone, leaving hundreds dead, but the Ebola crisis
began with just one healer's claims to special powers.
The outbreak need never
have spread from Guinea, health officials revealed to AFP, except for a
herbalist in the remote eastern border village of Sokoma.
"She was claiming to
have powers to heal Ebola. Cases from Guinea were crossing into Sierra Leone
for treatment," Mohamed Vandi, the top medical official in the hard-hit
district of Kenema, told AFP.
"She got infected
and died. During her funeral, women around the other towns got infected",
he said.
4. WEST
AFRICANS FLOOD INTO KENYA ILLEGALLY AT BUSIA, MALABA
Travellers from West
African countries where Ebola has killed hundreds have devised ways of getting
into Kenya through Busia and Malaba since they are barred from entering the
country through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
In the past week, 122
people from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea have transited to Kenya
through the two border towns, according to officials.
Dr Ambrose Fwamba, a public
health officer, on Tuesday raised the alarm and called for more surveillance
following an increase in travellers transiting through Busia.
The high number, he said,
was an indication that the two border points were high-risk areas.
5. NIGERIA'S PUBLIC DEBT PORTFOLIO NOW N10.5TN -
NWANKWO
Nigeria’s total
debt stock has again risen to a very high level of N10.4 trillion as at June
2014. The rising debt profile of the country is made up of external debt
stock of N1.46 trillion ($9.377 billion), Federal Government domestic debt of
N7.421 trillion ($47.653billion).
States in the
federation have a domestic debt stock of N1.551 trillion or $9.963 billion. The
Federal Government’s share of the rising external debt stands at $6.363
billion.
As at
December 2013, however, the total stock of external debt was $8.821 billion
indicating a rise of $556 million in the first half of 2014. But as at December
31, 2012 Federal Government’s external debt was $4.14 billion as against a
total debt stock of both Federal and state governments of $6.5 billion.
A break-down
of the rising debt profile showed that Federal Government’s external and
domestic debts amounted to N8.8 trillion or $57.030 billion as at the end of
June 2014. Federal Government borrowing from multilateral Institutions amounted
to $3.826 billion while loans from bilateral sources mainly China Exim Bank and
Eurobond amounted to $2.537 billion.
In the case
of states, a total of $2.904 billion was sourced from multilateral
institutions, $108.9 million was obtained as loans from bilateral sources, thus
making the states’ total outstanding external debt as at June 2013 $3.013
billion.
Disclosing
these facts in Abuja, Director General, Debt Management Office, Dr. Abraham
Nwankwo said that although the debt profile had increased, he assured that the
debt remained sustainable at a ratio of 12.51 to the Gross Domestic Product,
GDP.
The D-G also
said that the managers of the nation’s debt would apply more caution in further
borrowings in order not to run into the crisis of debt overhang, which the
nation once suffered.
His words:
“The sovereign debt is doing well. Currently our total sovereign domestic debt
for both Federal and states and the FCT is about N8.9 trillion and external
debt is about $9.38 billion.
“Our current
debt/GDP ratio is about 12.51 per cent which is much lower than the 56 per cent
total public to GDP for countries of Nigeria’s group.
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| Passengers arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on August 19, 2014. Health officials have warned that travellers from West Africa are now entering Kenya through Busia and Malaba. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NATION MEDIA GROUP |
6. CBN CONFIRMS BANKS’ COMPLIANCE ON ANTI-SCHEMING
DEVICES ON ATMS
The Central
Bank of Nigeria, CBN has confirmed more than 90 per cent of the banks operating
in the country have complied with its directive to install Anti-Scheming
devices on their Automated Teller Machines, ATMs.
The
CBN’s Director, Banking & Payments System Department, Mr. Dipo Fatokun, who
confirmed this development to Vanguard after its opening remarks at a meeting
hosted by the Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum (NeFF) featuring the CBN, Deposit
Money Banks, DMBs and other stakeholders in Lagos, said “The CBN has gone to
the banks’ ATMs to check compliance and to ensure that the banks complied with
the directive. More than 90 per cent have complied.
There
is technology issue, but it is not an excuse for them not to comply, but a challenge
which we hope would be overcome. Remember, they have to be physically present
to install these devices in their ATMs and you know that some of the banks have
a lot of the ATMs which they do in phases.
So
we hope that the few banks, which I think is about two or more that have not
fully complied but have shown commitment would comply soonest. In his remark on
electronic fraud, he said
“We
have to admit the fact that fraudsters are always deploying new strategies and
this is why this forum would continue to meet, collaborate, cooperate and
discuss.
That
does not mean there won’t be an end to it. The truth is that it is reducing and
it will continue to reduce, but for it to reduce further we need to think ahead
of the fraudsters and this why the stakeholders will continue to discuss.”
7. ARMED YOUTHS INVADE RIVERS COMMUNITIES
ARMED youths have sacked
four Rivers State communities in what is suspected as politically motivated
attacks.The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin has
therefore expressed his displeasure with the rising spate of politically
instigated violence in the state.
The crisis, which started
over the weekend, has forced scores of residents of Okomoko, Egwi, Ulakwo 1 and
Ulakwo 2 in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State to flee the communities
to avoid being caught in the crossfire.
Caretaker Chairman of
Etche Local Government Area, Mr. Charles Anyanwu, decried the fighting in his
community, Ulakwo and others, which political observers say is caused by the
battle for supremacy in Etche politics by opposing members of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), as
unwarranted.
8. US OFFICIALS CONFIRM AMERICAN JOURNALIST'S KILLING
A grisly video shows Islamic State militants beheading
James Foley who was kidnapped in Syria in November 2012.
9. GAZA TRUCE TALKS COLLAPSE INTO VIOLENCE
An Egyptian effort to end the month-long war between
Israel and Hamas failed once again as Palestinian militants fire dozens of
rockets and Israel responds with airstrikes.
10. FOCUS ON TRAFFICKING AMID PROBES
Almost 50 victims of human trafficking are discovered
in the UK each week, Government figures have shown as police continue to
investigate two separate cases of people smuggling.
Figures recorded by the
National Crime Agency (NCA) show that 566 potential cases of trafficking were
identified by police forces, local authorities, charities and Home Office
officials across the UK in the first three months of this year.
According to a NCA report
the most common reason for an adult being trafficked was sexual exploitation
but there were also many cases of people being transported as cheap labour or
into domestic servitude.
11. WHY TV IS BOOMING IN SOMALIA
Residents fear gathering
in public places where they might be attacked by the al-Qaida-linked militant
group al-Shaabab.
12. YES VOTE 'WILL BREAK UP THE BBC'
Scottish independence
would break up the BBC with "devastating" consequences for firms
north of the border which rely on the broadcaster for work, a leading Labour MP
will warn today.
Shadow Scottish secretary
Margaret Curran will use an address in Glasgow to raise concerns about the
impact leaving the UK would have on the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The Scottish Government's
independence white paper proposes setting up a new public services broadcaster,
the Scottish Broadcasting Service, if there is a Yes vote in next month's
referendum.
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Shadow
Scottish secretary Margaret Curran will use an address in Glasgow to raise
concerns about the impact a Yes vote would have on the BBC
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It adds that this new
body would continue to supply the BBC with the same level of programming as BBC
Scotland currently does, and in return viewers in an independent Scotland would
have "ongoing access to BBC services in Scotland".
The Labour MP will insist
that "breaking up the BBC" could have a "devastating"
impact.
But Blair Jenkins, the
chief executive of the pro-independence campaign Yes Scotland and a former head
of news and current affairs at BBC Scotland, accused Ms Curran of
misrepresenting the "exciting future for broadcasting and the wider
creative industries in an independent Scotland".
Ms Curran will state:
"Alex Salmond says that independence will bring new powers over
broadcasting to the Scottish Parliament.
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