Graphitti News collates national and
international headlines from late-breaking news, upcoming events and the
stories that will be talked about Thursday:
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| From left; Dr. Wale Ahmed, Lagos State Commissioner for Special Duties; Dr. Jide Idris, Commissioner for Health, and Mr. Remi Ibirogba, Commissioner for Information and Strategy , during the press briefing on the Ebola Virus Disease in Lagos, yesterday. Photo: Bunmi Azeez/Vanguard. |
1. FG, LAGOS GOVT DISAGREE ON NEW EBOLA CASES
The Federal and Lagos State governments, yesterday,
differed on new suspected cases of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the country.
While the Minister of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu insisted that there were no
new cases of the EVD in Nigeria, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health Dr
Jide Idris told reporters that five new suspected cases of Ebola have been
recorded in the state.
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the release of
N200 million to the Lagos State Government to assist in containment of the
spread of the disease.
2. RIBADU’S FATE UNCERTAIN AS PDP NWC FAILS TO
CONSIDER WAIVER
The prospect of the 2011 presidential candidate of the
defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, contesting the
forthcoming gubernatorial primaries of the Adamawa State chapter of the People’s
Democratic Party, PDP, was in jeopardy, yesterday, following the failure of the
PDP’s National Working Committee, NWC, to discuss a waiver for him.
Prior to yesterday’s meeting of the NWC, hopes were
high for Ribadu, who had collected his Expression of Interest and nomination
forms that the issue would be discussed having applied for a waiver in line with
Section 50 of the party’s constitution.
3. OFFICIALS: RESCUE MISSION FAILED
Obama sent Special Forces to Syria this summer to save
Americans held by the Islamic State, but they failed to locate any — including
journalist James Foley.
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| After speaking with U.S. President Barack Obama by phone, John and Diane Foley talk to reporters, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, outside their home in Rochester, N.H. Their son James Foley was abducted in November 2012 while covering the Syrian conflict. Islamic militants posted a video showing his murder on Tuesday and said they killed him because the U.S. had launched airstrikes in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) |
4. SOCIAL MEDIA PUSHING BACK AT MILITANT PROPAGANDA
Extremists have turned their social media into a
theater of horror — but companies are censoring objectionable content and users
are determined not to let it go viral.
5. LIBERIAN SLUMS BARRICADED AMID EBOLA FEARS
Riot police and soldiers seal off 50,000 people inside
their Liberian slum, trying to contain the Ebola outbreak that has killed 1,350
people across West Africa.
6. WHAT FARMER'S ALMANAC SAYS IS IN STORE
The 223-year-old chronicler of climate, folksy advice
and fun facts is predicting a colder winter and warmer summer for much of the
U.S.
7. HOLDER VISITS
FERGUSON, DESCRIBES OWN RUN-INS WITH POLICE
The U.S. attorney general
tells community leaders of the humiliation he felt after having his car
searched after he was twice pulled over in New Jersey.
8. ISRAELI AIR STRIKE
DEALS BLOW TO HAMAS
Three senior military
leaders in the militant Palestinian group are killed in a raid in southern
Gaza.
9. HAMAS OFFICIAL ADMITS GROUP MURDERED 3 ISRAELI TEENS
A Hamas official has
admitted for the first time that members of its militant wing kidnapped and
killed three Israeli teenagers in June. This fueled increased tensions with
Israel and eventually led to the IDF’s bombardment of Gaza.
Saleh Al-Arouri said the
al-Qassam Brigades were responsible, after Hamas’ leader Khaled Meshaal, who is
in exile in Qatar, had earlier denied his group was involved. However, Meshaal
did praise those who carried out the kidnappings.
The Palestinian militant
group that controls Gaza had long been suspected of carrying out the abductions
and murders of Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16.
However, Saleh Al-Arouri, who is a senior official, admitted at a conference in
Turkey that the al-Qassam Brigades were responsible for kidnapping them.
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10. ONE IN FIVE FOREIGN
VISITORS TO SWISS ASSISTED-SUICIDE CLINICS ARE BRITONS
Twenty percent of those
who travel to Switzerland to terminate their lives hail from the UK, a recent
Zurich University study has revealed.
Published on Wednesday in
the Journal of Medical Ethics, the research found that the number of non-residents willfully
taking their own lives at assisted-dying clinics throughout Switzerland
increased from 86 in 2009 to 172 in 2012.
11. SOUTH KOREANS DEFEND
NOODLES FOR THEIR INSTANT GRATIFICATION
The world's largest
consumers of ramen are spurning a U.S. study that links the beloved fast-food
staple to some risks for heart disease.
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| In this Aug. 19. 2014 photo, Han Seung-youn, 36, eats "ramyeon" instant noodle at a Ramyeon restaurant in Seoul, South Korea. Instant noodles are an essential, even passionate, part of life for many in South Korea and other Asian countries. Hence the emotional heartburn caused by a Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital study in the United States that found excessive consumption of instant noodles by South Koreans was associated with risks for diabetes, heart disease or stroke. The study has provoked feelings of wounded pride, mild guilt, stubborn resistance, even nationalism among South Koreans, who eat more instant noodles per capita than anyone in the world. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon ) |
12. UK OFFERS £6.5M FOR
EMERGENCY EBOLA RESEARCH
Researchers around the
world are being offered £6.5 million to find ways to save the lives of people
affected by the world's worst Ebola outbreak.
The UK government and the
Wellcome Trust medical charity pledged a combined £6.5 million for an emergency
research initiative.
Expert teams from around
the world are being invited to submit research proposals by September 8 for
initiatives that can investigate new approaches for treating, preventing and
containing the disease.
As of Wednesday, the
number of deaths from Ebola had reached 1,350, according to the World Health
Organization.
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