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The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has asked Rev. Fathers to start a new procedure of giving the Holy Communion to check likely spread of the Ebola virus. The Holy Communion will now be given on the palm as against placing it on the tongue of ...

2 feared dead, others hospitalised in Jos after excess salt consumption to prevent Ebola The rumour that Ebola could be prevented via consumption if salt seems to have caused some their lives. According to Thisday, At least two persons have been feared killed and 20 others hospitalised in various hospitals ...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Friday in Abuja declared the control and containment of the Ebola virus in Nigeria, a National Emergency. Accordingly, the President has directed the Federal Ministry of Health to work in collaboration with the State Ministries of Health, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the National ...

This somewhat sound like an unserious remark. But here’s what the coach of 17 year old Nigerian weightlifter Chika Amalaha made Nigeria proud as the first athlete to win gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, UK. The Treasurer of Nigeria Weightlifting Coaches Association Andrew Ekanem, claims young ...

She posted her apology on nairaland My confession and apology My name is Adesewa, I am coming out clean because what started has a joke has escalated into the unprecedented. How it started Yesterday i was with friend in her hostel, we were talking about this Ebola out break, when ...

In order to help our Embassy Community better understand some of the key points about the Ebola virus we have consulted with our medical specialists at the U S State Department and assembled this list of bullet points worded in plain language for easy comprehension. Our medical specialists remind everyone ...

The Liberian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Nurudeem Mohammed,told journalists in Abuja “The Liberian President President has personally called to apologise on the unfortunate development.She specifically said her country had declared a state of emergency over the Ebola epidermic in Liberia.‘She equally apologised that Sawyer ignored medical advice ...

Lagos state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has directed the immediate reversal of the school fees of Lagos State University, LASU, which was increased by the government to what it was as far back as 2011. Governor Fashola gave the directive�today August 7th�at the convocation programme of LASU which held earlier today ...

Lagos state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has directed the immediate reversal of the school fees of Lagos State University, LASU, which was increased by the government to what it was as far back as 2011. Governor Fashola gave the directive�today August 7th�at the convocation programme of LASU which held earlier today ...

The promising teenager who, alongside another female student of Gboko High School, narrowly escaped being beheaded by a ritualist after being kidnapped by a commercial vehicle operator, is still traumatized by his experience. Narrating his ordeal to Vanguard Metro, VM, Dooyum said ”I actually wept when I discovered that the ...

The death of Liberian Ebola victim, Patrick Sawyer in a Lagos hospital,has opened up a floodgate of Ebola cases as it’s been revealed he came in contact with about 70 people directly or indirectly. One of the Nigerian nurses who attended him died on Tuesday and others are still in ...

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The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu who spoke to newsmen today, announced that the female doctor who treated Late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian has died. Chukwu further disclosed that the second doctor and the nurse who managed him already have full-blown cases of the Ebola virus. More details shortly!

One of the doctors who attended to Ebola victim in Lagos has contracted the virus. A Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer, was the first Ebola case in Nigeria after travelling into lagos from Liberia already infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The �minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, confirmed ...

According to The Nation officials of Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Federal Government, led by the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, visited him seeking his cooperation in ensuring victims of the deadly virus are not brought to his church for healing. Synagogue is a popular ...

The Federal Government has announced they will no longer allow the remains of dead Nigerians, especially from countries battling Ebola virus, from being brought into the country for burial. Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Professor Abdulsalami Nasidi, said this on Friday in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. Nasidi said: �The ...

Ghana has officially banned flights from 4 West African countries; Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria, citing concerns about the rapid spread of the Ebola virus, which has claimed several lives. Charles Asare,�Managing Director of the Ghana Airport Company, said the measure was part of a set of emergency management ...

  Following the increased rate of Boko Haram attacks in Northern Nigeria, the National Youth Service Corps has redeployed corps members posted to 7 northern states namely: Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano and Yobe states to other states believed to have lesser security issues.In a statement�signed yesterday July 31st ...

A�hospital has been sealed off and its workers and patients quarantined due to an Ebola disease scare in Anambra State�today. According to the Anambra Commissioner of Health, Josephat Akabuike, the measure followed information received by the government that a man whose body was brought back from Liberia at the weekend, ...

A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the administration building of Kano State Polytechnic this afternoon July 30th around 2.45 as students were checking their results in the school.Kano State Police Command confirmed the blast, saying a female teenager blew herself up targeting prospective corps members who went to ...