Lagos 'Ebola hospital' battles to recover

Lagos - Nigeria may have been declared officially Ebola-free but at the First Consultants hospital in Lagos, doctors believe it'll take the facility that treated the first victim years to recover.

The 40-bed private clinic in the bustling Obalende area of the city paid a high price in the outbreak, after the first patient with the Ebola virus was admitted on 20 July.

Not only has it taken a financial hit from having to replace every piece of potentially contaminated equipment but it also suffered the human loss of much-respected staff with decades of expertise.

Nigeria keen to host AFCON

Cape Town - Seyi Akinwunmi, vice-president of the Nigeria Football Federation, says the West African nation is interested in hosting the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.

Morocco are the current host country, but they recently requested a delay in the staging of the competition due to ongoing concerns over the spread of the Ebola virus.

And with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) rejecting Morocco's request, several other nations have expressed an interest in stepping into the breach.

Jonathan & PDP Governors in closed door meeting over Buhari

The fear of Muhammadu Buhari is very real, especially with 14 governors now in APC. Consequently, the President, Goodluck Jonathan, has warned Peoples Democratic Party governors against backing any unpopular candidates as their successors in their respective states.

This is one of the issues discussed at the meeting the President had with the governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Sunday night. The meeting ended in the early hours of Monday.

The meeting was said to have discussed the presidential declaration of General Buhari on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.

Oscar deserved life - NFPYM

Johannesburg - Paralympian Oscar Pistorius should have been given a harsher sentence, the National Freedom Party Youth Movement (NFPYM) said on Tuesday.

"We all know that Pistorius shed crocodile tears each time he had a chance to do so, when he knew exactly that he murdered an innocent woman who had a bright future ahead of her because of his insecurities," secretary general Maria Busi Tshabalala said in a statement.

"As far as we are concerned, Oscar deserved life imprisonment."

Oscar processed, placed in cell

Johannesburg - Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been processed and placed in his cell in the hospital wing of the Kgosi Mampuru II prison, the facility's area commissioner Zebilon Monama said on Tuesday.

"He is a little bit tired and tense but the chaplain went to talk to him," he told Sapa.

"He is deurmekaar, as they say in Afrikaans. After he saw the chaplain our psychologist went to see him, just to try talk to him."