In Photos: President Jonathan and United States Vice President Joe Biden at a bilateral meeting at Roosevelt Room, White House!

President Jonathan & US VP Joe Biden at a bilateral meeting at Roosevelt Room, White House on Teusday.

Crash investigators find human remains in Malaysian wreckage; fighting rages nearby!

Crash site investigators in Ukraine found more human remains Friday among the first small patch of wreckage they searched in the village where the fuselage of the Malaysia Airlines plane landed.

Head of the Dutch-led recovery team Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, said no bodies were found, only remains. They are expected to take at least three weeks to complete their work, he said, longer if delays arise due to fighting between government troops and rebels who control the crash site.

The body parts, whose condition Aalbersberg declined to describe out of respect for the surviving family members, were taken away in ambulances. They will be transferred to refrigerated train cars, and eventually flown to the Netherlands for identification, he said.

Rihanna spotted today in NYC!

Rihanna was spotted out in NYC today.

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Man charged for strangling and burying ex-girl friend's body!

The former boyfriend of a 33 - year-old missing central Indiana woman recently confessed to have struck and strangled her and buried her body. Cassidy was last seen in April 2010.

46-year-old Scott Schuck said he killed Rebecca Cassidy after an argument in April 2010. Although in previous conversations with authorities, he had denied any wrongdoing.

A probable cause affidavit filed in Shelby Superior Court on Thursday says 46-year-old Scott Schuck confessed to killing 33-year-old Rebecca Cassidy after an argument in April 2010.

The affidavit says investigators found human remains and a purse with Cassidy's identification buried in Schuck's backyard in Shelbyville, about 20 miles southeast of Indianapolis.

Schuck was charged this week with murder. In previous conversations with authorities, he had denied any wrongdoing.

 Cassidy's aunt told CBS affiliate WISH the family was thankful to see an arrest in the case after years of waiting and wondering. Schuck was being held on $10 million bond.

12 people including two soldiers die in Taraba clashes!

The Police Public Relations Officer in the stare, Mr Joseph Kwaji, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jalingo the state capital, on Friday that no fewer than 14 persons, including two soldiers, were killed in a renewed violence at Ibi, headquarters of Ibi Local Government Area, on Thursday morning. 

The police spokesman said 14 suspects had been arrested in connection with the incident which saw 14 houses razed.

He disclosed that two AK 47 rifles and several other dangerous weapons were recovered from them, but normalcy had returned to the area after a detachment of riot policemen and military were deployed to maintain the peace. While investigation into the cause of the crisis is on-going.

Ebola: FG stops dead bodies from coming into Nigeria!

Following the threat posed by the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, the Federal Government has issued an order stopping the conveyance of dead Nigerians, especially from infected countries from being brought into the country for burial.

Also the Federal Government is investigating the conveyance of deceased Nigerian from Liberia into the country last month to ascertain whether the deceased died of Ebola or not and to identify those who had contact with him if he died of Ebola.

This was disclosed by Professor Abdulsalami Nasidi, Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Friday at a news conference on the update of the EVD, held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

According to Nasidi, the federal government had issued a directive that no dead body should be brought into the country henceforth, especially from neighbouring infected countries in view of the rampaging Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

He said this order would be communicated to the affected countries through diplomatic corps.

On the deceased Nigerian that was brought into the country, Nasidi said the body of the deceased was brought into the country on 21 July, 2014 from Liberia and conveyed from Lagos to Anambra State and deposited in a private mortuary in the state.

He said a team of experts, including those from the World Health Organisation, WHO had been dispatched to Anambra State to investigate whether the deceased died of Ebola.

“All the handler of the corpse brought into the country from Liberia will be registered and tracked. And those who accompanied the corpse to Anambra and the mortuary handlers are under quarantine in Anambra State. Our team in Anambra State will tomorrow give us the statistics of those who came in contact with the corpse,” he said.

“If the corpse in Anambra State tested positive, we have been given two options by the World Health Organisation. We can either cremate or buried. For corpses that would be buried, they will be placed in the bag and disinfect the bag and the grave must be two meters deep,” he added.

Nasidi added that so far, 70 contacts had been established to have come in contact with Mr. Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who died of Ebola in Lagos recently, saying that the contacts were being monitored to see if they would develop Ebola-like symptom.

He disclosed that two of the contacts that were brought down with fever had been tested and found negative to Ebola infection, saying “but that does not mean that we will stop. We will continue to place them under observation until we are certified that they are free. They were part of the 70 established contacts. First, it was 59, it increased to 69 and yesterday (Thursday), we had another. And this increased the number to 70.”

Nasidi clarified that there is no specific cure for Ebola virus unlike other ailment, but noted that there is treatment.

“We treat the symptoms. If we say that there is no cure, the patients will not come to the hospital. There is no specific drug for Ebola virus. But we can use other drugs to save an infected person. On early intervention, three out four cases survive but if they come late, one out of four survive,” he said.

Also speaking at the news conference, Lagos Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris said the deceased body brought from Liberia was currently being investigated if the deceased died of Ebola, adding that as more information was received, “we will identify and monitor contacts and work with local health personnel.”

He said the government had stepped up measures to screen incoming passengers to Nigeria to identify any traveller with symptoms through airport, seaport and border crossing, saying that Nigeria must remain vigilant and strengthen surveillance in order to identify potential cases of EVD so that care be given both patients and their communities and protect the population.”

“An Ebola reporting system has been activated in order o facilitate early identification of suspected Ebola cases,” he said, adding that an Isolated Unit had been established in Lagos with one way flow until health worker is decontaminated.

Source: PM News

Facebook back after temporary temporary outage!

I dint notice any problems regarding posts or uploads on facebook today, but information has revealed that Facebook experienced a temporary outage on Friday, prompting many users to flock to Twitter.

According to the report, on Friday afternoon, many Facebook users encountered problems when they tried to log in. At about 12:30 p.m. ET, the site displayed an error message saying, "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

A Facebook spokesperson told CBS News, "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible." Service was back up within about 30 minutes.

But it didn't take long before hashtags #Facebookisdown and #Facebookdown were trending on Twitter.

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