Residents of Port Harcourt have been advised to stop drinking garri soaked in cold water for now, because rats that carry the highly contagious Lassa fever virus also like exposed dry garri.

Dr. Furo Green, the Chairman of Rivers State branch of Nigerian Medical Association, NBA, gave this medical advice, while speaking on the Lassa Fever scourge in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital.He said

“Because you are not sure which garri has been infected by rats, its advisable to stay away. When you want to sip garri, you only pour cold water, add sugar and milk as the case may be.

“When you do that you only succeed in gulping a life virus that can cause Lassa fever. The virus is empowered easily to attack you. Rather, garri should be consumed in the traditional way prepare it well boiled hot water or pour the garri in a pot of boiling hot water and steer it.”

Dr. Green also advised members of the public to store food in closed containers to keep rats at bay.

“When you buy foodstuffs like garri, you should pour it into a container that is covered to avoid the garri from being contaminated infected rats”.

Since the outbreak of Lassa fever disease, three people have died in Rivers state, claiming the life of a medical doctor with the state-owned Braithwaite Memorial Specialised Hospital (BMHS), Livy Ijamala, on Wednesday January 13 night.

The medical doctor was said to have contracted the fever from a pregnant woman that conducted an emergency Cesarean Section unknown to him that she was infected.

The death of Ijamala brought to three, the number of persons who have died from the disease in the state, as a nursing mother and her two-week-old baby died earlier from the virus.

Source: PM News

Armed robbers on Friday night attacked film actors and actresses at a location in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and carted away their equipment and other valuables.

One of the victims, Zainab Bakare, told PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday that the bandits arrived the Quarry/Pepsi road location in an unmarked Toyota Sienna, as a movie production was going on at about 11.30pm.

She said the armed bandits, numbering four, ordered everyone at the scene to lie face down, before ransacking them.

Bakare said laptops, wristwatches, mobile phones and cash, as well as all recording equipment, were taken away by the robbers.

She said their cameras and a generator were also stolen.

“We thought they were Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and temporarily suspended our recording,” she said. “But to our dismay, the bandits drew guns, asking all of us to cooperate with them, else they waste our lives,” she said.

A film producer, Adebisi Babalola-Hassan, said the thieves had earlier driven past the location, but returned after sighting actors and actresses.

Babalola is the producer of “Alade Aiye”.

“The robbery operations lasted for about 20mins,and ironically no vehicle passed the road,as the robbery lasted,” she said.

The attack was reported at a police station in Abeokuta.

Recall we brought you an interesting drama we stumbled on from instagram where a lady with the handle “Barbie Davina’ uploaded pictures of herself and her supposed “bae” on instagram.

Trouble, Criticisms and backlash started when her supposed ‘bae’ requested she takes down all the photos as he not her “bae”.

People who claimed to know Sampala’s family tagged his wife, who last updated her Instagram page 93 weeks ago. Meanwhile, on Sampala’s page, there is no trace of his wife.

Well, Barbie Davina has taken to her Instagram account to deny having an affair with a married man.

According to her, the said man in question isn’t married, they are dating but just had misunderstanding-hence his comment on the controversial post.

What she wrote below;

“Hello guys. I lost access to my acct. so, I logged in 2day and saw all d comments, this is to clarify that the guy in question is a divorcee according to what he told me and we have been dating for long. We had a misunderstanding hence his comment on the controversial post… Am doing this post to clarify that I didn’t proudly post a pic of someone who is still legally married. Thanks.”