Rivers State Government Sends 3 People To Ebola Treatment Center

 Port Harcourt (NAN) -  The Rivers Commissioner for Health, Sampson Parker, on Sunday in Port Harcourt said three persons have been moved to the state’s treatment centre for observation on the Ebola disease.

Parker told newsmen the patients are a doctor, a pharmacist and a woman who had contact with Dr Ike Enemuo, who died of Ebola on Aug. 22.
Enemuo was a Port Harcourt-based medical practitioner who treated an ECOWAS diplomat with the Ebola virus.

“We now have three patients at the treatment centre which is at Oduoha, Emohua local government area. The centre, which is about 25 kilometres east of Port Harcourt, has the capacity to treat patients.

ECOWAS Diplomat Collapsed On Hearing The News Of The Death Of Dr Enemuo, Enemuo's Wife Tests Positive

The wife Dr Iyke Enemuo, who died in Port Harcourt last week Friday after treating a diplomat who had contact with the primary contact, Mr Patrick Sawyer, has tested positive to the Ebola virus disease.

Rivers State commissioner for health Dr Sampson Parker said the widow of Dr Enemuo had been flown to Lagos for treatment where the National Treatment Centre for the Ebola virus is located, since the test of the result conducted on her indicated positive.

    “When news got to Mr Koye that the doctor that treated him in Port Harcourt had died, he collapsed. It was then he opened up and confessed that Dr Enemuo had treated him when he travelled to Port Harcourt. He confessed that he sneaked out of quarantine to Port Harcourt.”

GRAPHIC PHOTO: 10 Dead, 8 Missing After Boat Capsized Today, In Port Harcourt

At least 10 people died when a boat carrying 35 passengers bound for Port Harcourt capsized and sank today. National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) co-ordinator Onimode Bandele told AFP:

“We can confirm that 10 persons died early today when a Port Harcourt-bound passenger boat sank. Rescue efforts are ongoing and the agency is already working with other bodies and security agencies in the rescue efforts.”

Scroll down See photo of the dead victims below. Viewer's discretion is advised.

The chairman of Bonny local government council, Adonye Wilcox, also confirmed the accident, which he said occurred at 7:45 am (0645 GMT).

    “Information available… indicates that the boat hit an object on the way and sank. Local divers have rescued 17 persons, including four members of the National Youth Service Corps, while 10 persons died as
a result of the accident”.

A search is being conducted for the eight people unaccounted for, Wilcox added. Boat accidents in Nigeria occur frequently and are often caused by overloading, poor vessel maintenance, speeding and poor lighting.

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How Infected Diplomat Took Ebola Virus To Port Harcourt, Over 100 Persons Quarantined

Just when we are about to start celebrating the defeat of Ebola, another foreigner has caused havoc with the Ebola virus in Nigeria. This calls for more caution as you never know where these people have visited and who they have come in contact with.

The efforts to contain Ebola in Nigeria have suffered a major setback as another medical doctor has been killed by the disease in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

The doctor’s passage on Friday, the first outside Lagos, caused panic in Rivers State and worry among the health personnel and other stakeholders battling to stamp out the disease in the country.

Obasanjo Playing Football And Dancing With A Lady In Port Harcourt (PHOTOS)

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo was invited by the Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi to commission some projects in the state.

He arrived Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa in a private jet on Monday to start a two-day visit and was welcomed warmly by Gov. Amaechi himself. Apparently, Obasanjo had a swirl time in Port-Harcourt as he was spotted kicking football.

N100 Bribe: Policeman Sentenced To Death

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Monday sentenced a police sergeant, Clement Indyel, to death for killing two persons while engaging in a fight with a bus driver over a N100 bribe.


Two other persons identified as Ali Bello and Auwalu Kwale, bagged life imprisonment each for their involvement in the crime.

Justice Biobele Georgewill, who delivered judgement on the matter, said Indyel and the two others conspired to murder Chinyeaka Kamalu and Ugochukwu Harcourt.

REVEALED : THE STORY BEHIND THE LEAKED NU*E PICTURES OF PORT HARCOURT GOSPEL SINGER

The true story behind the leaked nude pictures of the female gospel artiste finally comes out. It is indeed a wicked world we live in read on...

This innocent lady Above, met an Ikwere Dr who worked with the commissioner for health

(rivers state). And some how they hit it off. He was so possessive and had total control of her. Being the naive girl she is, she gave in to all he did almost worshiped him. He cut her off from her family and friends poisoned her mind against them. He made her see him as the only one she could trust.

They got engaged and soon after she could no longer take it cause she found out he was married but his wife was in South Africa. She called off the engagement but he wouldn’t have it.

JUNGLE JUSTICE: 2 Men Forced To "Make Love" In Public In Portharcourt

Snapshot from the video

Something very strange happened in Portharcourt on the 28th of January, 2014, according to a news report on GayStarNews, 2 men in Portharcourt were forced from their home and made to masturbate and have anal sex in front of an angry mob.

The alleged couple were informed on as being homosexual. So in an act of jungle justice, a crowd gathered, forced them to leave the house and made them ‘re-enact’ the ‘homosexual acts’ they allegedly were carrying out in private while the crowd filmed them. Then the footage was shared on social media.

In the video, the vigilantes are heard jeering as the large crowd of onlookers watched the men’s humiliation.

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