UPDATE "A Victory For Liberia And Liberians": WHO Declares Liberia Ebola-Free

A man walks past an Ebola campaign banner with the new slogan 'Ebola Must GO' in Monrovia on February 23, 2015 ©Zoom Dosso (AFP)

The UN health agency on Saturday declared Liberia Ebola-free, hailing the "monumental" achievement in the West African country where the virus has killed more than 4,700 people.

The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola on Saturday, making it the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to bring a formal end to the epidemic.

"The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over," the World Health Organization said in a statement, adding that 42 days had passed since the last confirmed case was buried.

"Interruption of transmission is a monumental achievement for a country that reported the highest number of deaths in the largest, longest, and most complex outbreak since Ebola first emerged in 1976," it said.

Egypt Seizes Football Star Aboutrika’s Assets

Mohamed Aboutrika

Egyptian authorities have seized share certificates belonging to former football star Mohamed Aboutrika after allegations that a company he founded funded the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood, judicial officials said.

The move against one of the country’s most successful sports stars comes amid a crackdown on members and supporters of the movement since July 2013, when the army ousted president Mohamed Morsi , Egypt’s first freely-elected leader.

Aboutrika had publicly endorsed Morsi’s 2012 presidential bid.

Cambodia Reports 502 Dengue Fever Cases In 4 Months, Up 67%

Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. (Naijagraphitti Imagebank)

Cambodia registered 502 dengue fever cases in the first four months of 2015, a 67 percent rise from 300 cases over the same period last year, a health official said in a statement on Saturday.

"The incident rate is 3.1 cases out of 100,000 people," Huy Rekol, director of the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, said in the statement.

Military Recovers Boko Haram’s Video Recordings

Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade. (Image source: Twitter)

The Director, Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, has confirmed that troops of the Nigerian Army recovered video recordings of the heinous acts perpetrated by the Boko Haram insurgents.

Olukolade, however, refused to disclose further information about the crimes against humanity captured in the videos in possession of the military.

“It is true that troops have captured some video recordings of the terrorists but I would not want to say anything on that for now,” he said.

He also confirmed to an Abuja based media consultancy firm to security agencies, the PR Nigeria, that the videos were being analyzed by the military.

China’s Hell-Raising Tourists Blacklisted For Misbehaviour

Chinese tourists can be blacklisted by the government for bad behavior both at home and abroad. (AFP Photo/China Out)

With an increasing number of Chinese in the financial position to enjoy a vacation either at home or abroad, Beijing is enforcing measures to ensure that holidaymakers don’t get out of control, harming China’s reputation abroad.

In December 2014, Zhang Yan, a Chinese passenger on a China-bound Thai aircraft, insulted a flight stewardess and tossed instant noodles in hot water at her, prompting the pilot to turn the aircraft around and return to Bangkok. Both she and her travel companion were removed from the flight.

Climate Change Is UN-Led Hoax To Create 'New World Order' – Australian PM's Adviser

Maurice Newman, the Australian PM's business adviser (Reuters/Daniel Munoz)

The Australian prime minister's chief business adviser says that climate change is a ruse led by the United Nations to create a new world order under the agency's control. The statement coincided with a visit from the UN's top climate negotiator.

Maurice Newman, chairman of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's business advisory council, said the UN is using false models which show sustained temperature increases because it wants to end democracy and impose authoritarian rule.

ED MILIBAND: Messianic Self-Belief But Little Clue About Real Life: A Searing Verdict From The Editor Of The New Statesman

Ed Miliband, pictured, said he had lost the election, but not the argument in his resignation speech. He was the most left-wing leader of the Labour Party since Michael Foot absorbed by left-wing economics. Miliband, pictured, was convinced that the British people wanted a more egalitarian society and socialism

By Jason Cowley For The Daily Mail

Ed Miliband’s defeat and resignation are a personal humiliation and a family tragedy.

He challenged his elder brother David for the leadership of the Labour Party in 2010, effectively destroying their relationship, because he was convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister and to lead Britain in a bright new direction.

SPECIAL REPORT: Cameron, Four Nigerians Win In UK Election

Top left: Kate Osamor; top bottom: Chi Onwurah; middle: David Cameron; top right: Helen Grant; top bottom: Chuka Umunna.

In one of the most keenly contested general elections in British history, four Nigerians won seats to the British parliament, making it the first time such feat would be recorded

Against all odds, David Cameron has won his re-election bid in one of the fiercest polls in British history.

Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain, led the Conservatives to almost a landslide victory against the Labour Party – a development that forced arch-rival – Ed Miliband to step down as laeder of the Labour party and the head of the opposition. The leaders of the Lib Dems party Nick Clegg and UKIP Nigel Farage also resigned their posts.

EBOLA OUTBREAK: Liberia Declared Ebola-Free, But Outbreak Continues Over Border

This picture shows a tarp with words and handprints in yellow paint in a U.S. treatment unit for Liberian health care workers infected with Ebola on April 30, 2015, in Monrovia.(Photo: Zoom Dosso, AFP/Getty Images)

Liberia was declared free from Ebola on Saturday after 42 days without a new case, the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said, but it urged vigilance until the worst-ever recorded outbreak of the virus was extinguished in neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone.

A total of 11,005 people have died from Ebola in Liberia, neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone since the outbreak began in December 2013, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Nigerian Agricultural Champion Candidate for AfDB Boss Says He Aims To Increase Private Sector Lending To Curb Widening Inequality In Africa

Akinwumi Adesina, minister of agriculture and rural development for Nigeria. Photo by: Eric Roset / Africa Progress Panel / CC BY

Akinwumi Adesina has said he aims to increase private sector lending to curb widening inequality on the continent. Nigeria is backing its agriculture minister, Adesina, to head the bank, which lends to African governments and companies working on infrastructure projects and other programs.

Adesina has extensive agricultural background, from serving as vice president of policy and partnerships at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa to being at the driver’s seat of Nigeria’s agricultural transformation over the past few years.

Burundi President Registers To Run For Third Term As Tensions Simmer; Over 50 000 Have Fled Strife-Hit Burundi —UN

Burundi crisis in graphics

Burundi's president registered on Friday to run for a third term, his spokesman said, a move likely to stoke anger among protesters opposing his bid for another five years in office.

Crowds have taken to the streets and clashed with police for almost two weeks, saying Pierre Nkurunziza's plan to run again violates the constitution and a peace deal that ended an ethnically charged civil war in 2005.

The constitutional court ruled this week that he could stand, saying his first term did not count because he was picked by parliament not elected by the people. Critics say the court is biased and have vowed to keep up protests.

The former Hutu rebel-turned-president "just handed in the file", his spokesman Gervais Abayeho told Reuters in a text message.

Saturday is the deadline for candidates to submit applications to the election commission.

Nigerian Pilots File Flight Plans Manually —Aviation Minister

Minister of Aviation, Mr. Osita Chidoka

The Minister of Aviation, Mr. Osita Chidoka, on Thursday expressed concerns that in the 21st century, Nigerian pilots were still filing their flight plans manually rather than through electronic means in use in most developed and developing countries.

While describing this as an embarrassment to the aviation industry in the country, he said the Aviation ministry had started changing the system for better.

Flight plans are documents filed by a pilot or flight dispatcher with the local civil aviation authorities (e.g. Nigerian Airspace Management Agency) prior to departure. They indicate the plane’s planned route or flight path.

The Ebola Virus Can Live Inside Your Eyes

Before he contracted Ebola, Dr. Ian Crozier had two blue eyes. After he was told he was cured of the disease, his left eye turned green. Credit Emory Eye Centre (Image source: New York Times)

According to a story in the New York Times, Crozier had contracted Ebola while working with the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone in late 2014. By October, his symptoms had abated and his blood tested negative for the virus, so he left Emory University Hospital to go home.

Two months later, he was back. He described his symptoms to fellow physicians: his eye burned, he was sensitive to light, his vision, normally 20/15, had changed to 20/20 (by the height of the inflammation, it had blurred to 20/400), and he had the sensation of something in his eye. The pressure inside his left eye was much higher than normal, which threatened his vision. Doctors diagnosed Crozier with uveitis, a severe inflammation in the eye, but when they sampled his aqueous humor (the fluid inside the eye), they were shocked by the cause of the inflammation: Ebola.

Buhari ‘Will Not Intervene’ In Choice Of Senate President, Speaker

Muhammadu Buhari

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has refused to intervene in the ongoing intrigues surrounding the election of the senate president and speaker in the incoming administration, TheCable has learnt.

This development has unsettled many of the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who believe that he has to put his feet on the ground to forestall the looming crisis in the party.

Pele In Stable Condition After Prostate Surgery In Brazil

Pele: The greatest – Ask many Brazilians who is the greatest footballer of all time and their answer will be simple: “Pele.” The striker (pictured) here in 2014, won three World Cups with Brazil between 1958 and 1970. (Image source: CNN)

Pele, arguably the greatest footballer in history, had prostate surgery at the Albert Einstein Hospital, officials at the facility said Thursday.

The three-time World Cup winner is in stable condition, hospital officials said in a statement.

Doctors performed a transurethral resection of the prostate, according to the hospital. The surgery is done to relieve moderate to severe urinary symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate.

Pakistan Helicopter Crash Kills Norwegian, Philippine Ambassadors

Pakistani soldiers guard a street in Gilgit September 20, 2012. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was traveling to the mountainous northern region of Gilgit on a separate aircraft to launch two projects when the accident happened. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

A Pakistan military helicopter carrying diplomats to inspect development projects crashed on Friday killing seven people, including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines and the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was traveling to the mountainous northern region of Gilgit on a separate aircraft to launch two projects when the accident happened. He returned to Islamabad, his office said.

PM Cameron Sweeps To Unexpected Triumph In British Election…Miliband, Clegg & Farage Quit

Cameron was due to meet Queen Elizabeth to accept mandate to form a government (Image & graphics source: Daily Mail)

Prime Minister David Cameron won a stunning election victory in Britain, overturning poll predictions that the vote would be the closest in decades to sweep easily into office for another five years, with his Labour opponents in tatters.

The sterling currency, bonds and shares surged on a result that reversed expectations of an inconclusive "hung parliament" in which Cameron would have had to jockey for power with Labour rival Ed Miliband.

Instead, Cameron was due to meet Queen Elizabeth before noon to accept a swift mandate to form a government. The royal standard was raised at Buckingham Palace to signal the queen was there awaiting him.

Suspected Extremists Attack College Of Administrative And Business Studies In Potiskum

Militants attack College of Administrative and Business Studies in Potiskum

Suspected Boko Haram extremists attacked a business school in Potiskum on Friday with gunfire and two bomb blasts before being overcome by security forces.

A suicide bomber died when he blew himself up prematurely in the car park of the College of Administrative and Business Studies in Potiskum, according to a security officer and a hospital worker. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to reporters. Potiskum is the biggest city in Yobe state.

A second bomb exploded in the college dormitory, but all the students apparently were already in classrooms.

NKURUNZIZA’S INTRANSIGENCE: Burundi Clashes As African Union Warns Against Election

The crisis in Burundi ©K.Tian/A.Bommenel, abm/rg/jj (AFP)

At least four people were killed in Burundi Thursday in clashes over the president's bid for a third term, as the African Union warned it was not possible to hold an election under such conditions.

Two were shot by police amid battles between demonstrators, police and government supporters, thought to be members of the ruling party's Imbonerakure militia. The Red Cross said one person had been killed by a grenade, another burned body was seen by an AFP journalist.

JOKES APART: Shaq Had A Fall; Now He Wants To Have A Laugh – Win US$500 For The Best Meme

Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal took a little tumble (read: he ate it, hard) during the Inside the NBA halftime show of the Rockets vs. Clippers game Wednesday night. He fell so hard, in fact, he lost a shoe and broke part of the show's set.

EBOLA OUTBREAK: Liberia Emerges From Nightmare Of Ebola

A picture taken on August 25, 2014 in Monrovia shows nurses wearing protective suits escorting a man infected with the Ebola virus to a hospital ©Zoom Dosso (AFP)

Heavily pregnant when she died, Fatimah Jakemah was bagged, bleached and carted off for cremation, one of dozens of new cases in the capital that week as Ebola tightened its grip on Liberia.

It was early September and the outbreak was about to mushroom into an emergency of historic proportions that would eventually see 4,700 deaths throughout the country.

Across town, Olivia Clark found herself handing another collection team her 18-month-old son, Aaron, who had slipped away a few hours earlier, too young to fight the deadly virus amplifying inside his tiny body.

Fraudsters Dupe People With My Name, Says APC Governor-elect El-Rufai

Malam Nasir el-Rufai

All Progressives Congress Governor-elect in Kaduna State and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai

The All Progressives Congress Governor-elect in Kaduna State, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, on Wednesday raised the alarm that some fraudsters had used his name to defraud unsuspecting members of the public across the state and even beyond.

Specifically, spokesman for the governor-elect, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, said the impostor created an e-mail address in el-Rufai’s name and criminally demanded money from the public.

Record 38mn People Internally Displaced Worldwide In 2014 — Report

Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde

Conflicts and violence made 30,000 people flee their homes each day in 2014, pushing the overall number of the internally displaced to a high of 38 million, a newly-released report says.

The number of the displaced thus equals “the total populations of London, New York and Beijing combined,” specifies report by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

The overview covering 60 countries, says 11 million people were forced to move within their own countries in 2014 alone. As a result of ongoing conflicts, the number of internally displaced people worldwide now stands at 38 million, the highest in a generation.

There are now more than twice the number of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) than there are refugees, according to the report.

Buhari Orders His Security Personnel To Obey Traffic Rules

Buhari, Nigeria President-elect

Determined to lead by example, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has instructed police and military personnel attached to him to respect traffic regulations during his movements.

In a statement released by his media team in Abuja, Buhari said obeying the law would be the guiding philosophy of his administration, adding “without leadership by example, the ordinary citizens would become copycats of the lawlessness of their leaders.”

The president-elect explained that the “arrogance of power, lawlessness and disregard for the rights and convenience of fellow citizens would have no place in his government.”

According to him, for leaders to inspire respect, they must obey the laws of country, and that when leaders treat the country’s laws with contempt, they send the wrong message to the citizens.

He lamented a situation where other citizens are punished at traffic points and public roads because of the “arrogant lawlessness of the leaders.”

The president-elect advised military and police detail to abide by his philosophy of “bringing the rule of law in the conduct of leaders during their movements on public roads.”