EBOLA OUTBREAK: Sierra Leone Quarantines 700 Homes After Ebola Case

Freetown mayor Bode Gibson "shocked and disappointed"

Sierra Leone placed hundreds of homes in the capital under Ebola quarantine Friday, in a huge blow for its recovery less than a month after it lifted all restrictions on movement. The government said 700 properties had been locked down in Aberdeen, a fishing and tourist district of Freetown, after the death of a fisherman who tested positive for the deadly tropical virus, according to AFP.

First Edublog On Creativity & Innovation In Nigeria - This Blog Offers More Than News Briefs

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WELCOME to the first edublog on CREATIVITY & INNOVATION. This blog offers more than news stories. After reading the news, visit the rest of the blog.  

The main aim of the blog was to challenge Nigerian people to be creative and innovative. This was premised on the fact that the blog would become a platform for learning and interaction as it publishes ideas, concepts and lessons sharing which foster creativity and innovation in the in the public sphere.

This blog has undertaken to call attention to, share, expose and stimulate its readers to become more educated on the rudimentary elements of CREATIVITY and INNOVATION in order to foster both growth of CREATIVITY and INNOVATION in the public sphere and stimulate debate, practice, uptake, and/or experiments even. Hopefully even hobbyists would choose to try out their hands on one notion or the other. In this undertaking, this blog's foremost methodology would be primarily by information sharing as it publishes articulate posts espousing empirical principles at all times while grounded in theory as much as possible but without allowing theoretical conceptualizing get in the way of easily digestible and accessible lessons sharing. 

How to Create a Stress-Free Workplace [INFOGRAPHIC]

Work-related stress is a KILLER. 

A study has found that job stress can be fatal and contribute to the deaths 120,000 Americans a year. It can also lead to hypertension, cardiovascular disease and decreased mental health, a new study argues. It also costs tens of billions of dollars in healthcare.

Now here are tips which can apply to workers anywhere in the world! CLICK HERE

Work-related stress is the response people have when presented with work demands not matched to their skills and which challenge their ability to cope.

Help eliminate stress-causing factors at your workplace, follow these tips:

• Identify the hazards
• Assess the risks
• Eliminate the risks
• Contain the risks
• Protect from the risks
• Monitor the risks

Takeaways:

• Two in five workers say that their job is very or extremely stressful.
• Anxiety and stress are the most common reasons to be off work because of illness.
• Office environment can dictate the atmosphere at work.
• Office Personal touches such as family pictures can make a work environment a stress-free one.
• Download smartphone apps to help with anxiety, such as Breathe2Relax and Worry Box.

Retired PE Teacher, 91, Becomes Oldest UK Person Jailed For First Time, For Sex Attacks On Boys In The 1950s, 60s And 70s

Marcus Marcussen from Rochford, Worcestershire, UK. Photo: Henry Nichols/Newstream

A Briton, 91-year-old former teacher, has become the oldest person to be sent to prison for the first time after he was jailed for carrying out a string of sex attacks on 14 boys.

The retired PE teacher and youth club volunteer was convicted of 25 counts of indecent assault earlier this week after a three-week trial. Marcussen had denied committing the offences against pupils at Ilmington Road comprehensive school in Weoley Castle, Birmingham, Daily Mail reports.

"Virunga," Film Bids For Oscar Glory

"Virunga" - screen grab of promotional trailer

A film about Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site in eastern Congo has been described as an Oscar-contending documentary, GRAPHITTI NEWS learned.

The film brings action and suspense to the nature genre. Its real-life cast includes Andre Bauma, an endearing ranger who tends orphan gorillas; chief warden Emmanuel de Merode, an urbane Belgian descended from nobility; and Melanie Gouby, a French freelance journalist who records shadowy figures on a hidden camera in scenes that make for tense viewing, according to AP.

Supreme Court Sacks Monarch 31 Years After Ascension

Riyom Rock Formation in Plateau State

Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday nullified the appointment of a monarch in the central Plateau state, Nde Goyang Kayili of Somji, Kabwir District, Pankshin Local Government Area, 31 years after he ascended the throne, NAN reports.

Delivering the lead judgment in an appeal brought by Kayili’s counsel against the decision of the Court of Appeal, Jos Division, Justice Clara Ogunbiyi held that the appeal lacked merit and dismissed it.

"State Of Chaos": Scandal-Prone Zuma’s State Of The Nation Address Marred By Parliament Brawl

Photo: David Harrison Mail & Guardian (mg.co.za)

"State of Chaos", was how one South African newspaper described the images of police and politicians trading blows at the opening of parliament, a damning assessment of the country's democracy twenty years after apartheid.

President Jacob Zuma walked down the red carpet outside parliament in Cape Town on Thursday evening as a brass band blasted out South Africa's national freedom anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, and cannons fired off a 21-gun salute.

Nigeria’s Political Parties Most Corrupt In The World – Transparency International

Nigeria’s poor global image has further been dented by a survey result showing it as the country that has the world’s most corrupt political parties. The survey done by Transparency International, TI, which result was posted in a graph on the global corruption fighting body’s twitter handle, puts Nigeria ahead of 11 other countries rated as it scored 94 percent.

Titled: ‘Where most people think political parties are corrupt’, the survey, which showed Nigeria as the only country in Africa coming among the top 11 countries of the world with corrupt political parties, rates Mexico and Cyprus as countries with second most corrupt political parties after they both scored 91 percent in the survey.

They were closely by Nepal and Greece with 91 percent. Italy scored 89 percent, Indonesia and India scored 86 percent.

They were followed by Jamaica and El Savador with 85 percent each while Spain came 11th with 83 percent.