WHO: 1000s of Ebola vaccine doses in coming months

Dakar - The World Health Organisation says
there should be thousands of doses of
experimental Ebola vaccines available in the
coming months and they could eventually be
given to health care workers and other people
who have had contact with the sick.
But Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director-general
at WHO, cautioned reporters in Geneva on Friday
that no vaccine has yet been proven safe or
effective in humans. Testing has now begun to
make sure they are not harmful to people.
A vaccine may then be put to use in this
outbreak, but Kieny warned that until its
effectiveness is proven, anyone receiving it would
still have to operate as if they are not protected
against Ebola.
The Ebola outbreak sweeping West Africa is
believed to have killed more than 2 900 people.

Why Do You Want To Arrest T.B Joshua?

So many people are shouting, “arrest T. B.
Joshua!” “Lock him up now!” “Throw away the
key.”
Why? Why do you want to arrest TB Joshua? I
read this group of writers from the USA. Over
five of them came together to pen and sign this
long letter demanding for TB Joshua’s arrest.
Summary of it was that he violated building
law. This is all that TB Joshua did. What about
the Town Planning Authority? Where were they?
What were they looking at that they did not
demolish the building? You want to arrest TB
Joshua, but you do not know they should be
arrested first?
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Joshua building collapse
TB Joshua only killed 100 plus people who
volunteered of their own volition and not under
compulsion to visit him for miracles. They got
miracles. We cannot say they were forced. Have
you arrested Diezani Alison-Madueke? Where
are those five spirited writers to demand the
arrest of Diezani who has continued to steal $4
million every single day from the poorest
kitchens in Nigeria through her illegal kerosene
“subsidy” scam? Do we know how many her
robbery kills everyday in hardship? Hundreds
every day, and we want to arrest TB Joshua?
Have you arrested Farouk Lawani? Have you
arrested General Ihejrika, the man who
embezzled billions of dollars for our nation’s
security and directly and indirectly facilitated/
sponsored Boko Haram’s success? Have you
clamored for his arrest for the transfer all those
APC’s we are just recovering from Boko Haram
after he was exposed, that were used to kill
Nigerians in the thousands over the past 5
years? Where are your letters calling for his
arrest? No, it is poor, hard-working TB Joshua
you see because he is not the respected Cabal.
Have you arrested Ali Modu Sheriff? Have you
arrested Fayose? Have you arrested Patience
Jonathan known as “the greediest person in
Bayelsa” who was caught smuggling $13.6
million; money for the poor and poisoned people
of Bayelsa, out of Nigeria? Talking about
smuggling, have you arrested Ayo Oritsejafor
and President Jonathan, the gangsta cash and
guns smugglers? Have you arrested Abba Moro,
the self confessed possessed-by-the-devil
Minister who humiliated all our youth, killed
many and again was just exposed in another
major scam, robbing Nigerians of billions? No,
you have not arrested or insisted on the arrest
of all these, but you want to arrest TB Joshua?
Have you arrested the Military officers who
burned down BRT buses? Have you arrested the
soldiers who killed Sheikh Zakzaky’s three sons
and 33 other innocent peaceful protesters in
Kaduna the other day? Have you arrested Stella
Oduah and the manager of Coscharis motors, or
you claim not to know that corruption directly
leads to the death of millions from poor or
unavailable infrastructure, security and all other
responsibilities of the government with public
funds?
Nigeria is a free for all now. Please and please,
do not pounce on petty thieves and petty
killers. You see poor TB Joshua and you all
gather to throw tire and petrol on him and mob
beat him because there is something about him
you never liked… you were always jealous of
him and looked at him as “other.” But you have
left the government of Jonathan to continue to
lead this nation in reckless abandon; to
promote corruption, looting and killing in all
facets of the nation. To destroy every single
facet of society. You have watched Jonathan
promote and encourage stealing as never
known before; you have watched him free killers
and thieves.
Nigeria is a free for all. You have not clamored
for the arrest of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the
king crook in power, guilty of unlimited crimes
against humanity and responsible for the
veering of Nigeria- all systems- off the cliff
finally, but you want to arrest TB Joshua. No
petty criminal should ever be punished
again. Open all the jails and set them free. If
and until we all rise together and chase out the
entire master killers and thieves in the Senate
and Presidency, please and please, touch not
the “anointed.” Only 100 he killed, Diezani killed
another 1000 today by stealing money for the
construction of their community health centers,
and she is there putting make-up on in peace
and you are shouting about TB Joshua.

UN Confronts Deadly Ebola Epidermic

United Nations - World leaders gathered at the
United Nations heard dire warnings anda
desperate pleas for assistance Thursday as the
deadly Ebola virus forced Sierra Leone to
quarantine a million people.
US President Barack Obama led calls for a
ramped up response to the growing West African
outbreak, urging governments, businesses and
international organizations to join the fight.
The United Nations did win fresh pledges of
support, and the Group of Seven nations
announced it would keep open vital air and sea
links with Ebola-hit countries in West Africa.
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tackle Ebola
But Obama warned: "We are not doing enough" -
and UN officials said a 20-fold surge in
assistance is needed to come to grips with an
outbreak that has killed close to 3 000 people
"Right now, everybody has the best of intentions,
but people are not putting the kinds of resources
necessary to put a stop to this epidemic," he
said, on the sidelines of the UN General
Assembly.
'Ebola is winning'
Health experts agreed. "Today, Ebola is winning,"
said Joanne Liu, president of the aid group
Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
"The reality on the ground today is this: the
promised surge has not yet delivered," she
warned.
Health systems in the worst-hit countries of
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have been
overwhelmed by the epidemic and are in dire
need of doctors, nurses, medical equipment and
supplies.
Canada announced a contribution of $27 million
dollars to the effort and France said it has set
aside 70 million euros in a battle that the United
Nations estimates will require close to one billion
dollars.
The European Union said it would add 30 million
euros to the current 150 million euros it has
provided to fight Ebola.
UN officials could not provide an immediate tally
of the total pledges made at the UN meeting but
the UN's coordinator for Ebola, David Nabarro,
said countries had "responded with generosity."
'Disease of the world '
Sierra Leone on Thursday took the drastic step
of putting more than one million people in five
districts under quarantine-- the largest open-
ended lockdown in the Ebola outbreak.
"My country is at the battlefront of one of the
biggest life and death challenges facing the
global human community," Sierra Leone's
President Ernest Bai Koroma warned by video
link from Freetown.
"Ebola is not only a disease of Sierra Leone and
its neighbors, it is a disease of the world."
The northern districts of Port Loko and Bombali
have been closed off indefinitely along with the
southern district of Moyamba -- effectively
sealing in around 1.2 million people.
With the eastern districts of Kenema and
Kailahun already under quarantine, more than a
third of the population of six million -- in five of
the nation's 14 districts -- now finds itself
unable to move freely.
In New York, the G7 foreign ministers pledged to
work to maintain transport links with the Ebola-
hit countries to allow much-needed help to
reach those in need.
"We warn that although the spread of Ebola
must be contained, affected countries must not
be isolated," said the G7 -- Britain, Canada,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United
States.
Several airlines moved in late August to suspend
flights to the three affected countries, although
some have since resumed.
A UN mission on Ebola set up last week is due
to deploy in West Africa on Sunday, bringing
supplies and equipment including protective
suits, trucks, helicopters and other aircraft.
The United States is sending 3,000 troops to
Liberia to help battle the contagion and has
mobilized its experts from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention to help beat
back the virus.
The CDC estimates that cases in Liberia and
Sierra Leone could rocket to 1.4 million by
January -- in a worst-case scenario based on
data obtained before the world ramped up its
response.
World Bank president Jim Kim said the "spread,
the magnitude and the complexity of the Ebola
crisis is like nothing we have ever seen" and
warned it could lead to the "potential meltdown
of the continent."