Ebola Drug Firm Shares skyrocket After FDA Announcement

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation's head office in Burnaby, British Columbia, on Tuesday.

Shares of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals closed at $20.70 on Friday, surging 45% in one day of trading.

On Thursday afternoon, management announced that the FDA loosened a hold on the Ebola treatment in the company's development pipeline.

"[T]he U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has verbally confirmed they have modified the full clinical hold placed on the TKM-Ebola Investigational New Drug Application (IND) to a partial clinical hold," they said. "This action enables the potential use of TKM-Ebola in individuals infected with Ebola virus."

Iraq crisis: The streets of Erbil’s newly Christian suburb are now full of helpless people

Despite many fleeing to Erbil, there is fear Islamic State, formerly ISIS, will advance and even the Kurdish capital is not safe

Sisters Bassma (L) and Rena Yousef, refugees from Qaraqosh, and their babies Milad and Mervy

The last day of Qaraqosh’s time as a Christian town, a time almost as old as Christianity itself, began with a mortar shell at nine in the morning.

It came through the roof of Melad and Marven Abdullah’s house on Wednesday, killing them instantly. Melad was nine; his cousin, Marven, four. The mortar struck Marven in the head as it landed. They found his arms and feet, crushed against the wall, but nothing else.

Chris Brown posts pic of himself licking a woman's bare butt

Chris Brown is beginning to act like he really has bipolar...lol. In the last few days he's been posting and deleting pics on his instagram page...but yesterday he went a little overboard.

Yesterday folks on instagram were joking about "eating booty" and Chris Brown decided to get in on the joke by posting an obscene pic of himself licking a girls butt. Of course he quickly deleted it, but you know...fastest fingers first. Some people got the screenshot. See the uncensored pic after the cut

Two INEC officials caught moving sensitive materials in Osun

Two officials of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Obokun LGA of Osun state have been arrested for diverting sensitive voting materials ahead of tomorrow's governorship election in the state.

 

When interrogated, one of the men who is the Electoral Officer for the LGA confessed to the act but refused to name those who sent him as he pleaded for Mercy. A check on his phone log and text messages later showed he had been communicating with a chieftain in the LGA. Continue...

Iyanya & his leading lady get cosy in BTS pics from his new music video

Iyanya recently shot the video for his new hit single, Mr Oreo, in Brooklyn, New York, directed by The Mega Boi. The video was shot in an upscale apartment in one of New York’s most populous neighborhoods and I have the behind the scenes photos. Continue to see more pics...

Soldiers Run from Gwoza: Boko Haram Captures Military Tank, Army Commander Missing

Some units of the Nigerian Army 213 battalion, Operation Task Force Mike and 234 battalion, that attempted to retake Gwoza Township from Islamist militant Boko Haram, beat a hasty retreat on Thursday night as the militants showed superior firepower against Nigerian soldiers.

NNPC Hospital In Lagos Shut Over Presence Of Ebola Patient

The deadly Ebola disease is spreading and reports reaching OluFamous.Com is that the family members of the Matron who died of Ebola in Lagos are on the run. It is suspected that some of them might have contracted the virus from her when she visited home before she was eventually quarantined.

Also, there was panic in Victoria Island on Friday after a suspected Ebola patient was found to be admitted at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC clinic on Muri Okunola.