Essien caught in the centre of cruel Ebola hoax

Online Nigerian newspaper, NewsWireNGR, were seemingly duped by tweets

from Twitter user @YuryAlkaev – who claims to be a sports journalist –

reporting that AC Milan had confirmed that Essien had caught the

killer disease.

However, after the story started to create a stir on social media, AC

Milan sources quickly moved to scotch the claims, insisting any

reports are fake and that no interviews had been given to Nigerian

media.

Credit: Metro UK