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Governor Rauf Aregbesola Leads In Osun Gubernatorial Election. Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State in clear lead in the Osun state governorship election conducted today accross the sate, figure colated by Saharareporters shows that the governor is leading in at least 20 local government areas while his opponent, Iyoiola Omisore of PDP is lagging behind in 4 LGAs. Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State in clear lead in the Osun state governorship election conducted today accross the sate, figure colated by Saharareporters shows that the governor is leading in at least 20 local government areas while his opponent, Iyoiola Omisore of PDP is lagging behind in 4 LGAs.                     ...

Governor Aregbesola Winning In Osogbo, While Omisore Of PDP Is Leading In Ife. So far, the election results are characteristically showing that the APC candidate Governor Rauf Aregbesola is leading in Oshogbo and environs and may be leading in overall results so far seen by SaharaReporters, while the People’s Democratic Party candidate, Iyiola Omisore appears to be leading in Ife area. Vote counting in the gubernatorial election in Osun state has commenced with the first results of the election trickling in. Voters across the state  turned out massively as early at 6 AM Nigerian time for accreditation and voting commenced  early in several districts. However, there was massive deployment of soldiers across the state and mass arrest of opposition All Progressives Congress members overnight.                        ...

Obama: Iraq air strikes and aid drops will prevent 'act of genocide' Barack Obama makes a statement on the South Lawn of the White House before departing for a Martha’s Vineyard vacation. Photograph:EPA President Barack Obama on Saturday reiterated his determination to avoid being pulled into a longer involvement in Iraq but said strikes against Islamic militants who he called “barbaric terrorists” would continue if necessary, in order to protect Americans and “prevent an act of genocide”. Obama said he could not say how long military and humanitarian operations would continue, but said: “We feel confident that we can prevent [Isis] from going up a mountain...

 Governor Rauf Aregbesola, has alleged that no fewer than 150 members of his party were either harassed or detained by security agents on election day. Aregbesola spoke while voting at Ogbon Arugbo Ifofin in Ilesa, on Saturday. He alleged that some APC agents were not given identification, which prevented them from monitoring the process. He said, “The tags supplied by INEC to agents were not adequate and this deprived some of our agents of monitoring the electoral process. APC agents were specifically not given identity card cards to ensure that the rules of are well followed. If Federal Government continue to abuse our agents with security men, the result will not be friendly. “I cannot say for all, but some the security personnel behaved in manners and ways that contradict their uniform. You will recall that there has been arrival of force for more than a week to intimidate the voters. As I speak to you 150 APC members including leaders and supporters have been ...

Favipiravir also known as T-705 is an experimental anti-viral drug with activity against many RNA VIRUSES. It, like some other experimental antiviraldrugs (T-1105 and T-1106), is a pyrazinecarboxamide  derivative. Favipiravir is active against influenza viruses,West Nile virus,yellow fever virus,foot and mouth disease virus as well as other flaviviruses,arenaviruses,bunyaviruses and alphaviruses. The mechanism of its actions is thought to be related to the selective inhibition of viral RNa-dependent RNA polymerase. Favipiravir does not inhibit RNA of DNA synthesis in mammalian cells and is not toxic to them. The advantage of using favipiravir in an Ebola outbreak is that it has already been extensively tested for use as an anti-viral in human trials for influenza. The drug is now in a U.S. final-stage trial for treating influenza. In addition, the drug is a pill, unlike the cocktail of injected antibodies administered to two Americans who got Ebola. This means it may be e...

A drug from Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp. has emerged as a candidate for treating the Ebola virus, which has killed nearly 1,000 people in Africa during a recent outbreak. The drug–a anti-influenza tablet called favipiravir–was created by a Fujifilm subsidiary, Toyama Chemical Co., and approved by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in March. A Fujifilm spokesman said Friday that the company was in talks with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on how to prepare for trials of the drug in treating Ebola. “Since Ebola and influenza viruses are the same type, theoretically, the same effects can be expected on Ebola,” said the spokesman. He added, however, that the drug is currently approved to treat only novel and re-emerging influenza viruses. Fears over Ebola are growing especially after two American medical aid workers were infected in Liberia with the disease, which has a fatality rate of up to 90%. As of Monday, the total of 1,711 Ebola infe...

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n Sh The Spokesman for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said his Gestapo Style arrest by hooded security agents in Osogbo on Friday night, for no reason beyond the fact that he belongs to the opposition, shows the level of illegality, lawlessness, anarchy and intolerance to which Nigeria has descended under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan. In a statement he issued in Osogbo on Saturday, shortly after he was released, Alhaji Mohammed said he was arrested along with Mr. Sunday Dare, the Media Aide to APC National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Mr. Afolabi Salisu, Deputy Chief of Staff to Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State. ''We were being driven to the Government House when we were stopped at a military check point by men in military and DSS uniforms, all hooded and armed to the teeth with AK-47 assault rifles, pistols and other weapons. Since there was no curfew in Osun state and people were moving around ...

The husband of the American woman infected with Ebola said Friday that he hopes to return to the U.S. to be with his wife soon, but remains in Liberia waiting for the approximately 21-day incubation period to pass to make sure he is not infected as well. David Writebol spoke by telephone from Monrovia, Liberia, where he and his wife Nancy were doing missionary work. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook asked Writebol if he was waiting to see if he was infected, and Writebol replied, "Yes, I am taking my temperature every day." Since the Ebola outbreak first began about six months ago, the virus has killed at least 932 people in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. On Tuesday, Nancy Writebol was transferred on a specially-equipped medical flight from Liberia to the U.S. She is now being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the same facility where her colleague Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, of Fort Worth, ...

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) educational materials are displayed at a hearing of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, about the Ebola crisis in West Africa, on Capitol Hill in Washington August 7, 2014. Credit: Reuters. The U.S. government will not renew funding for a major research project into Lassa fever, a decision that will, in turn, cut resources for a facility in Sierra Leone that is at the forefront of the current battle against the Ebola virus. The National Institutes of Health rejected a proposal from New Orleans-based Tulane University to renew the five-year contract which expires in November, according to a July 30 letter from NIH reviewed by Reuters. The expiring contract is worth $15 million. NIH declined to comment on the decision, citing "fede...

Senator Isiaka Adeleke,a former governor of Osun State who is in the All Progressives Congress, has alleged intimidation from the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party. Adeleke spoke after his accreditation in Ede on Saturday. He described the electoral process as peaceful so far, but decried the incidents leading up to the event.Some police officers, SSS men and soldiers came to my mother’s house, where I stay around 1am this morning banging the gate. “I saw one of those that came, a PDP member, pointing at the house to say this is the place. But they were repelled by my own security forces. Some people have been detained in the state, like the State Attorney General, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Bayo Salami.” He said, “So far, so good. People are trooping out and I hope it continues like this. Although, the process is peaceful now but the events leading up to today has not been peaceful. The PDP deputy governorship candidate, Rafiu Bello, is also from...

This Islamic State nightmare is not a holy war but an unholy mess. It isn’t religious zeal but the collapse of state power that makes the clash in Iraq feel like a return to the dark ages. Thousands of Yazidi and Christian people have fled Hamdaniyah town of Mosul in northern Iraq this week to escape Islamic State fighters. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images In a voice pleading and in despair, the woman who had fled for her life asked: “What century are we in?” She was an Iraqi Christian, reached by the BBC World Service even as she sought to escape the self-declared Islamic State, or IS (formerly Isis). “They will sell us,” she said. “They will rape us.” Her words echoed this week’s tearful warning to the Iraqi parliament from a Kurdish MP who described the fate befalling her fellow Yazidis. “Mr Speaker, our women are being taken as slaves and sold in the slave market.” The year is 2014 and yet 40,00...

                                                                                  APC spokesman, Lai Mohammed, Osun lawmakers, others arrested. …As Dusk clampdown on leaders begin ahead of Saturday poll A major clampdown and shooting spree around the homes of leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) began at nightfall on Friday with armed and masked security agents surrounded and invadeed their homes with sporadic shootings to strike terror into their households and neighbours. The Government Reservation Area home of Senator Bayo Salami was invaded by...