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BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 21st 2013 The Federal Ministry of Health is to begin investigations into the suspected outbreak cholera in Namu village in the Qua’pan Local Government Area of Plateau, an official of the ministry has said. Dr Akin Oyemakinde, Chief Consultant Epidemiologist in the ministry, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja that the investigation would determine the kind of intervention to be deployed to the community. “The ministry is already aware of the outbreak of cholera in Plateau and has sent some team of experts to carry out proper investigations. “After the investigation, we will have a comprehensive detail of the situation and the necessary interventions deployed to the areas.’’ Oyemakinde assured that the ministry was on top of the situation and would ensure that it curtailed the spread of the disease. It will be recalled that an Epidemiologist in Plateau, Dr Raymond Yuryit, had confirmed the death of eight people with 61 others...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 21st 2013 Rev. Jesse Jackson UNITED States Civil Rights Activist and President  of the Rainbow Push Coalition, Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday arrived Abuja, the nation’s capital city to deliver a Keynote address at today’s inauguration of former Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark Foundation. Speaking with Journalists at the International Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Jackson who hailed chief Clark for coming up the noble initiative of setting up a University of Technology in his native home, Kiagbodo at 86,  however hailed President Goodluck Jonathan for creating such an enabling environment for a dream of such to be realised. On the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Rev. Jesse Jackson however urged the striking lecturers to have a rethink. At the airport to receive him on behalf of Chief Clark were Senator BASSEY Henshaw, former member, Federal House of Representatives, Cairo ...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 21st 2013 Schools have been asked to stay closed on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast on Monday, as the region still reeling from record flooding. This battens down the hatches against the advance of a hurricane blowing winds of over 161 km per hour. Raymond, a strong category two hurricane, is rumbling slowly toward Acapulco, threatening the beach resort with more heavy rain, just weeks after storms knocked out its airport, wrecking homes, roads and cars, and stranding thousands of tourists. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that Raymond could become a major, or category three hurricane, at any time. The hurricane is likely to become stationary as it gets close to the coast late on Monday or on Tuesday, the NHC said. Late on Sunday, authorities ordered classes suspended in Acapulco, the port of Lazaro Cardenas and other parts of the southwestern coastline of Mexico threatened by Raymond. Mexico has no major oil installations in ...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 21st 2013 ABUJA- NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday pleaded with Nigerians to keep faith with President Goodluck Jonathan in his determination to achieve his set goals as the nation was on a sure path to economic prosperity,  just as the party boasted that the President has delivered on the economy. The PDP however hailed the President for not allowing himself to be distracted from what it termed his avowed commitment towards the development of the nation and the welfare of Nigerians, even as it said that President Jonathan has remained resolute in meticulously and calmly driving his Transformation Agenda, adding, “and for this we are highly impressed. In a statement signed yeaterday by PDP national Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, he said, “The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has applauded President Goodluck Jonathan for the milestones so far achieved in the critical sectors of the eco...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 21st 2013 A cold war is brewing in Gombe State as pilgrims from the state have been seen in Saudi Arabia during the Hajj campaigning for the re-election of Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo in 2015. A source said the pilgrims displayed the governor’s posters in their areas of residence in Makka and other parts of the Arabian country, thereby angering many other Nigerian pilgrims especially from Northern Nigeria. Micblog could not get the Executive Secretary of the Gombe State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Usman Gurama, on the phone from our New York’s office. B ut he was said not to have questioned the rationale behind the action. A Gombe indigene, Mohammed Garba, confirmed to SaharaReporters that Gurama’s position was aired on BBC Hausa this morning from Makka. Garba said, “We heard Gurama justifying it and not coming out to make a categorical statement against such nonsense. How can our pilgrims behave in such disgraceful manner?  Why oth...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 21st 2013 Ghana has called on the U.S. to lift the embargo placed on Cuba in 1960, describing it as outdated and unnecessary, a government statement has said. The statement quoted Ghana’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Thomas Quartey, as making the call during a meeting with Mrs Teresita Fraga, Cuban Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister in Accra. The U.S. placed a partial economic and financial ban on Cuba in Oct. 1960 about two years after the Batisma regime was deposed by the Cuban revolution. The ban was strengthened to a near-total embargo on Feb. 7, 1962 following Cuba’s nationalization of U.S. property and corporations and was codified into law in 1993. The law was with a stated purpose of maintaining sanctions on Cuba so long as its government continued to refuse to move toward democratization and greater respect for human rights. Quartey said it was necessary for the U.S. to lift the embargo which had lasted for several years in the inter...