The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye, on Thursday said the state had recorded the first case of Lassa fever.

Ipaye said this during a press conference held at Oke Mosan in Abeokuta, thestate capital.

He identified the index case in the state as a 28-year-old lady, “discovered on Wednesday February 3 at 8:10pm.”

Ipaye said the victim had travelled to Ebonyi for a burial and returned to Ogun on January 15, and later started manifesting the symptoms of the viral disease.

He said,

“The victim had accessed treatment at Ruby Medical Centre, Ota. She was said to have been moved another hospital, Central Specialist Hospital, Ota. It was the management of the Central Specialist Hospital that called the state Ministry of Health.”

“We moved in immediately and took her in. We have shut the two health facilities for decontamination.”

Ipaye said the victim had been transferred to the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, one of the isolation centres for the disease.

He added,

“The confirmatory test was done and the result came in last night. We started emergency procedures immediately and she has been moved to the isolation centre in Sagamu.

“She has been given the drug, ribavirin and still under observation. She has had fever and other symptoms but have not started bleeding.

“She has passed through two private hospitals, which have now been shut for decontamination.”

Ipaye also said 60 persons who had contact with the victim in the two health facilities including three members of her family were under watch.

He said the first 35 contacts were health workers in the first hospital, 22 in the second one and three others were family members of the victim.

He said,

“These 60 people have been placed under surveillance, but I want to appeal to the residents not to panic. They must be vigilant and maintain good hygiene in their homes.”

Ipaye commended the management of the Central Specialist Hospital for its patriotism in contacting the government and saving the state from the scourge of Lassa fever.

The state government had on Tuesday January 26, raised the alarm on 19 suspected cases of the Lassa fever who had contact with the first index case in Ahmadiyyah Hospital, Ijaiye in Ojokoro Local Government Area of Lagos but live in Ogun State.

Ipaye, however, said all the 19 persons have been declared free of the disease, “because they did not manifest the symptoms of the disease, not even of malaria fever.”

Amarachi Joyce Mbatu was very happy when she won the Facec of VL Magazine 2016 on the 24th of January 2016, But this didn’t last long.

Fast forward to less than two weeks later, the VL beauty pageant organizers that crowned her announced yesterday that Amarachi has been dethroned for reasons they said included lack of commitment, availability and not being able to meet up the the brand (VL) requirements.

However, according to Amarachi, she was dethroned because she refused to do a topless photoshoot. Here’s what she posted on Facebook after the pageant released their statement dethroning her.

The first runner up, Damaris Obieke pictured below signing her contract, taking over from Amarachi.

Meanwhile, The magazine really shoots topless photos of their models which they use for their magazine covers. See Below:

Rescue team lifting the remains of Bristow helicopter from the Erha field to Lagos.

According to reports, three helicopters of the Rapid Response Squad aided in the location and rescue of the helicopter which crashed in Lagos waters.

The crashed helicopter was located 68 nautical miles out of Lagos on the ocean. The passengers and crew members all survived the crash.

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A teenage girl has vowed to marry her sweetheart after being told her bone cancer was incurable.

Emma Cosgrove, from Cheadle, was diagnosed with a tumour in her leg aged just 12 and has undergone years of treatment.

But she has now been told the illness has returned and doctors are unable to treat it.

Refusing to let her illness stop her living her life, brave Emma has now written a bucket list.

And her biggest wish is to marry fiancé Dion Dunn, 18, who she has known since childhood.

The teen faces a race against time to fulfil her wish – but has been helped by friends, family, and even complete strangers who have already donated £7,000 to help her with the special day.

Emma, whose modest ambitions also include a Centre Parcs break with her dog Nala and a hotel trip to London to watch The Lion King, has been bowled over by the public’s generosity.
Emma says she been bowled over by the public’s support.

She told the Manchester Evening News :

“I want to say thank you to every single person who has shared and donated towards my go fund me page.

“I can’t even begin to explain how grateful I am and how much I appreciate every single donation.

“This means that I can make some amazing memories with all of my family and friends and I can’t wait to share photos with all of the people who have supported me over the past six years.”

In the past five years, the 17-year-old has relapsed six times and undergone 18 operations to tackle tumours in her legs, lungs and ribs.

Before Christmas, Emma, along with her mum Cheryl and sister Danni were told the that her cancer had returned.

However, chemotherapy to treat this has failed and all doctors can do now is keep Emma comfortable.
But to help the teenager’s dreams come true, a family friend set up a Go Fund Me page which was soon flooded with offers of help.

Mum Cheryl, 45, says they have got several venues in mind – Bredbury Hall, Village Hotel and Waterside Hotel in Cheadle – and is applying to the Stalybridge-based charity Gift A Wedding to see if it can help make her daughter’s dream possible.

She added said:

“We’ve lived in Cheadle all our lives and Emma is loved by so many and this has really proved just how amazing she is.

“She’s touched so many hearts and now we have complete strangers donating huge amounts of people, people who don’t know us but want to make her dreams come true. “It’s mind-blowing.”

The lady pictured above was accused of snatching her best friend’s boyfriend and secretly went ahead to marry him.

Recall the friend who made the wild allegation, posted some private snapshots to back up her claims.

But the wife, Rume, has come out with details of what happened. Read her own side of the story…

“I’m Rume and this is my official statement;
People have accused me for being guilty by changing acct name and making my posts private! In just 2 hours a reputation I had “tried” to build all my life seemed to be shattering right before me lol. It’s a painful thing that @fashioncraftbyeve feels so hurt that she had to go this far.

Love hurt is never easy to bear and for that fact I say sorry for whatever you are going through! I am deeply hurt with everything and the insults but people should really know the truth before slandering a human being… the last time I spoke with @fashioncraftbyeve on phone, she apologised for bad-mouthing me to my fiancé (so that he would call off the wedding) and yet here we are again! .

I haven’t had the courage to even talk to my fiance because I can’t help but be angry with all this (but if you knew the truth you would know that he did nothing wrong except be a gentleman and try to not hurt her ‘supposed’ feelings and quite frankly he didn’t owe her any explanation!)

I have seen all his attempts to reply every slander and vindicate me but honestly this has proven unnecessary and hey! One day day we would look back and be like ‘remeber when we had to go tru that experience and remeber how we divinely overcame it and became stronger?’ Because the truth is seeing him go tru all the terror and torment from last night till this morning has made me love him more.

And those who have known me these past years especially in the last 2 to 3 years would know that yes! I am freaked by Jesus and his words and one especially comes to mind with all these that has happened; Psalm 109 and its content is my REPLY to all I have been accused of and this has given me strength to speak up.”

38yrs old Oye-Lowo Ayediran Ajanaku was brutally stabbed to death early on Tuesday morning by his wife, Yewande Ayediran (nee Fatoki) at their home in Akobo estate, Ibadan after a domestic dispute.

According to reports, Yewande, a lawyer and a staff of Directorate of Public Prosecution at the Ministry of Justice, Ibadan, is also the daughter of one Honorable Fatoki and had been married to Ayediran for three years without a child.

On Monday night, she heard her husband had a son outside wedlock.

When the dispute between the couples started that night, Yewande had earlier stabbed Ayediran on his shoulder; the landlord had interfered and had settled the dispute and Ayediran had been taken to the hospital where his wound was stitched. Thereafter, he went home to sleep.

However, at the early hours of Tuesday morning while he was still sleeping due to the effect of the drugs he had taken, his wife again reportedly slaughtered him and locked the door refusing to call for help and ignoring his weak plea for help.

After a while, reports say his aggrieved wife called on the Landlady who upon response saw him in the pool of his own blood. He died few minutes later.

Ayediran’s corpse has been deposited at the mortuary.

Yewande is presently detained at the state CID Iyaganku, Ibadan. She was taken too the house where she had allegedly killed her husband on Thursday afternoon by the police for on-sight investigation:

Sources say her family are trying to use their influence to suppress the case.

Daily Trust reports that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended the operations of Bristow Helicopters’ Sikorsky S-76X++ type, following the crash landing incident in Lagos on Wednesday.

Although there were no casualties involved, the NCAA states that due to the frequent incident of crashes involving the aircraft type, the operations of the series will be halted in order for a full scale audit to be carried out particularly on the Sikorsky S- 76C++ type.

The Director General of NCAA, Capt. Mukhtar Usman, who made the announcement at a press conference today, also stated that the suspension was standard procedure to confirm the adequacy and propriety of the operating aircraft type.

“This is not new in the industry, it is one of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) all over the world”, he said.

The first Bristow crash with the same type of Helicopter, which killed six of the 12 passengers on board including the pilot and co-pilot, was recorded in August 2015.

Source: Daily Trust

Following the downward slide of oil price in the International market, international oil firm, Royal Dutch Shell says it is cutting down on 10,000 jobs.

Chief Executive of the company, Ben van Beurden, said this in a webcast on its 2015 fourth quarter and full year results early today February 4th..

“We are making substantial changes in the company, as we refocus Shell, and respond to lower oil prices. As we have previously indicated, this will include a reduction of some 10,000 staff and direct contractor positions in 2015-16 across both companies.” he said