GRAPHITTI NEWS BRIEFS — 12 National & International Highlights To Know For Tuesday, September 9, 2014

GRAPHITTI NEWS collates national and international highlights from late-breaking news, up-coming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:

Louise Erdrich has won the PEN/Saul Bellow prize, a lifetime achievement honor for American writers that comes with a US$25,000 cash award.

1. WITH SURGE IN LIBERIA, EBOLA CASE TOLL ABOVE 4,200

World Health Organization figures show that a surge in new cases in Liberia has driven up the number of people believed to be infected with Ebola to more than 4,200.

That new toll includes more than 500 news cases in Liberia in just a week. The U.N. health agency has said that it expects thousands of new infections in Liberia, the hardest hit country in the current outbreak, in the coming weeks.

An Ebola epidemic in West Africa is spiralling out of control and moving faster than efforts to contain it.

New figures published by WHO on Tuesday attribute more than 2,200 deaths to Ebola.

2. EBOLA SCARE AS US AIR MARSHAL ATTACKED WITH SYRINGE IN LAGOS AIRPORT

A US air marshal has been forcefully injected with a syringe at Nigeria’s Lagos Airport and has been taken to hospital amid fears he might have contracted Ebola.

It wasn’t immediately clear what was in the syringe after the incident occurred Sunday. The name of the marshal has not yet been revealed, AFP reported.

Fears the syringe could have been infected with the Ebola virus spread quickly, as Nigeria remains one of the West African countries where the deadly epidemic is currently raging.

Authorities were taking all the necessary precautions, but preliminary tests suggested that the marshal wasn’t in any danger, according to the FBI.

3. PIRATED BOOKS, OTHERS WORTH N30 MILLION SEIZED IN LAGOS

The Nigerian Copyright Commission, NCC, on Monday in Lagos seized pirated books belonging to different publishers.

Chris Nkwocha, the Lagos Zonal Manager of NCC, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the seizure of the books and other items took place after a hint by an informant.

Nkwocha put the value of seized items at N30 million.
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