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THE General Manager of Black Horse Industries Limited, Mr. S. Sakalawi, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The Lebanese was seized and whisked away by three gunmen, who stormed the factory premises located along Old Lagos Road, Podo area of Ibadan at about 9:30p.m last Tuesday, according to reliable sources. The gunmen, who stormed the factory in a silver coloured Honda Accord car, were said to have escaped security check by driving closely behind the car of a female member of staff as she drove into the compound. Sakalawi, it was learnt, was also accidentally driving behind the abductors. As the three cars entered the compound, the female staff was said to have started shouting at the security men for allowing the gunmen into the compound without insisting on knowing their identity and mission. As soon as they sighted Sakalawi alighting from his car, the sources said that the gunmen pounced on him and bundled him into their car and dro...

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President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned all the 36 state governors and their health commissioners   to an urgent meeting on the outbreak of the Ebola Virus disease in the country. Jonathan, who made this known during a conference organised by the Interfaith Initiative For Peace in Abuja on Monday, said it was “unfortunate that one mad man” brought the virus to Nigeria. Before he spoke, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, had disclosed at a news   conference that Nigeria had recorded another   Ebola case, the 10th so far. The case involves   a nurse, who is one of the health workers that managed Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American in a Lagos hospital that brought the deadly virus to Nigeria on July 20. He died on July 25 and is the first known Ebola index case in the country. The matron of the Lagos hospital   died last week at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Yaba, Lagos where the   seven other  ...

They boasted that he would lose. They distorted his achievements and cooked false allegations against him during the campaigns. They over-policed and over-militarised his state during the election. They arrested some of his party leaders and commissioners on the eve of the election. They harassed his party agents in some Local Government Areas, and even drove some away completely. In a final bid to snatch victory, they attempted to disrupt the collation of results at the INEC office. But he hurried to the finish line so fast that they could not catch up with him. And, so, by 7:30am on Sunday, August 10, 2014, he, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress, was duly returned as the winner of the Osun governorship election held on Saturday, August 9, 2014. The mathematics of his victory is interesting for at least two reasons. First, he scored 394,684 votes, while his closest rival, Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party scored292,747 votes. The margin of Are...

A medical doctor has revealed how a nursing mother contracted the deadly Ebola virus at a Lagos hospital. PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman was the patient who visited the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation staff clinic on Muri Okunola Street in the Victoria Island area of Lagos. NNPC had issued a press statement on Friday, saying that the clinic would be shut due to a suspected case of Ebola reported in the clinic. Our correspondent gathered from the source, who had a first-hand information of the incident, that the nursing mother had first visited the First Consultant Medical Centre, Obalende. He said, “The lady attended ante-natal at First Consultant prior to the arrival of the Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer. She was delivered of her baby at the hospital after which she was discharged. “A few weeks later, Mr. Sawyer came around and was attended to by health workers. He was first treated for malaria, then typhoid, before there was high index of suspicion. He tested p...

A fishing boat capsized on Tuesday in waters off the South Korean southern city of Geoje, leaving four dead and three missing, Yonhap news agency reported. The 59-ton fishing boat, with 11 crew members on board, capsized after hitting a rope between a tug boat and a barge at around 4:32 p.m. local time in waters southeast of the Geoje city, South Gyeongsang province, South Korea’s coast guard said. The coast guard have saved three sailors out of the sea at the incident area at around 7:00 PM local time. Then they rescued five sailors from the boat, four of whom were found dead. The coast guard have sent a patrol boat and a helicopter for the search operation. Civil rescue team and navy forces have also joined in to search the remaining three missing crew members. The fishing boat was sailing from Busan port to Geoje island when the accident happened, according to the coast guard. Reckless sailing was estimated to have caused the incident, but the exact cause was under inves...