Kenya’s Ebola death toll rises to two as third patient succumbs

Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control discovered over 100 sacks of empty alcoholic beverage bottles at a residential building in Lagos. Authorities suspect the bottles were intended for counterfeit drink production. A Swiss diplomat's wife has been identified as the country's first Ebola patient, though her potential source of infection remains under investigation.

Veteran Nollywood actor Jide Kosoko revealed he is struggling financially after his film Eleko: Oba Esugbayi failed to recover its N300m production cost at the box office. Bayern Munich's head coach Vincent Kompany was hospitalized after collapsing during a training session with the club's reserve team. Twenty-four state Houses of Assembly have approved a constitutional amendment to create a dual policing system in Nigeria, fulfilling the necessary threshold for constitutional change.

President Bola Tinubu mourned the loss of veteran Nollywood actor Francis Duru, who died at the age of 57, describing his death as a significant loss to the Nigerian film industry. The University of Ilorin awarded Mathematics graduate Francis Olusegun a perfect 5.00 CGPA, making him the institution's top graduating student. The Works Minister, David Umahi, stated that the 750-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway lacks a single unified engineering design due to the project's section-by-section planning and costing.