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                    U.S. President Barack Obama hugs Ebola survivor Nina Pham in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, October 24. Pham, one of two Texas nurses who were diagnosed with the virus, was declared Ebola-free after being treated at a hospital in Bethesda.

                               The first confirmed Ebola patient in Mali has died, according to state TV reports, citing government health officials. The victim, a 2-year-old girl, had traveled to the country with her grandmother from Guinea -- one of the three countries hardest hit during the recent Ebola outbreak  chidexboy . Earlier on Friday, the World Health Organization said that the girl had multiple opportunities to expose others to the virus. Continue...

                                                                             Super Eagles captain Vincent Enyeama hopes the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations is cancelled to help stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.  vanguard  reports. Continue...

                   Forbes Africa has revealed the nominees for their 2014 Person of the Year award and notably, three Nigerians are on the list – Aliko Dangote, author Chimamanda Adichie and Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Arunma Oteh. Also on the list are Thuli Madonsela, a South African advocate and the nation’s public protector who helped draft the country’s constitution in 1994 and was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People this year as well as Donald Kaberuka, the Rwandan economist who has ushered in significant change for the continent during his 10 years tenure as the president of the African Development Bank. Continue...

                                  Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke’s sister has been kidnapped by gunmen in Port Harcourt. The minister implied that her mother was seized because of her ministry’s crackdown on oil companies which had abused the country’s rotten fuel subsidy scheme. Vanguard reports that the men abducted her sister, Osiyo Agama, at gunpoint as she was walking to her car on Tuesday night. The motive for the abduction is currently unknown, as there has been no report of the men asking for a ransom.

                            There’s nothing you can’t change nowadays with some surgery, pills or injections. Rapper T.I.‘s wife Tiny recently permanently changed her eye colour to grey. After people were speculating about it, she posted a mini-commercial for the place that helped her transform, then pulled down the Instagram post later. The folks over at Necole Bitchie quickly captured the post before she took it down. Continue...