Ebola

According to Punch, the Reps explained yesterday that it had directed its Committee on Education to take �another look” at the date in view of the fact that the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country had yet to be fully contained. The Deputy Chairman, House Committee on ...

There was panic in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife on Tuesday over a report that a female patient on�admission at the OAU Health Centre was a suspected Ebola Virus Disease victim. The school management initially denied the reports,but the Oyo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Temitope Ilori, Ilori said the female ...

Dennis Akagha is one of the lucky survivors of Ebola.He was the fiancee of Late Justina Ejelonu who came in contact with Liberian,Patrick Sawyer on her first day working as a nurse at the First Consultant Hospital,Lagos.Dennis is now Ebola free but jobless now.He spoke to Punch about his plans ...

400 people are under watch in Port Harcourt,after coming in contact with Late doctor who hid the fact he had been exposed to the virus.The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Projector, Dr. Abdulsalami Nasidi told Reuters �Everything about this doctor was in secrecy, he violated our public health laws by ...

The Lagos State Government has warned Lagosians and other citizens in the country not to fall victim to suspected fraudsters who were selling a kit that allegedly could be used to test for Ebola Virus.The government, in a statement by the Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, Mr. Hakeem ...

According to multiple eye witnesses, the Super Eagles midfielder arrived at the Eagles Calabar camp this afternoon wearing protective hand gloves. When asked by coach Stephen Keshi why he was wearing gloves, Mikel reportedly replied “Coach I have up to four hand gloves and if you don’t mind, I can ...

According to a report by Premium Times, a 19 year old student of Law at Ahmadu Bello University has been diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in Kaduna. They reported yesterday that the PRO of the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, ABUTH, Bilyaminu Umar, confirmed the case yesterday Monday September ...

The death of a patient, who is suspected to have Ebola, has caused panic among patients and doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi- Araba, Lagos State. A reliable source, who confirmed this development to our correspondent in Lagos on Tuesday, said the patient was brought in by members ...

There was anxiety yesterday at the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos after an alarm was raised that a passenger arriving the airport from Enugu had the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). TheNation reports that passengers were soaked in tension and anxiety when the aircraft carrying the suspected ...

[youtube BlCdQMRE4vo 300 200] Ozị maka oya nje Ebola n’asụsụ Igbo Ebola awareness message in Igbo language. This is for the benefit of people that do not understand English language which is the language used for most awareness videos and information on this disease. Please watch and share, this is ...

Men who were treated and discharged of Ebola Virus have been advised not to have sex for atleast 7 weeks. Dr Bridget Okoeguale, Director, Department of Public Health, gave the advice during an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).She said �There are many literatures that say that after men ...

A highly placed official of the Rivers state Government has confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that a suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease has been detected in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital. The official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to discuss the development ...

The Adadevoh family has refuted reports that the younger sister of late Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh who died of the Ebola virus, has tested positive to Ebola and has been hospitalized. Despite sources insisting that Amy Ngozi Adadevoh tested positive and has been moved to the isolation treatment centre in Lagos, ...

The internet has been buzzing about this article written by Michelle Hanson and published by The Guardian US which talks about the Ebola epidemic in Africa. Lucky Dr Kent Brantly, the American doctor who has recovered from Ebola, having been given a dose of the experimental antibody serum Zmapp, whizzed ...

If words of insiders at the Ministry of health are anything to go by, its been reported that Dr Stella Ameyo’s sister whose tests was conducted last week has tested positive to the Ebola virus. Dr Ameyo who died from the Ebola virus days ago came in contact with her ...

The fight against the Ebola virus has gotten even more real as all stakeholders have decided to put all hands on death to drive out this epidemic from Nigeria. The Nigeria Custom service has taken precautionary actions as they seized a trailer containing smoked meat suspected to be that of ...

Britain has recorded it’s first case of Ebola after a British national living in Sierra Leone tested positive for the Ebola virus .Professor John Watson, deputy chief medical officer, said: ‘The overall risk to the public in the UK continues to be very low.’Medical experts are currently assessing the situation ...

Davido was turned back last week from Cameroon, for fear of Ebola, which has killed and infected several people in Nigeria. The chartered aircraft of the ‘Skelewu‘ crooner was turned back because flights originating from Nigeria were not cleared to land in that country. ‎A source told NaijaVibe that, his ...

First Consultant Hospital in Obalende, Lagos State, where Nigeria’s first Ebola case was treated will receive N4 million from ANAP foundation. Nigeria’s�Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu’s spokesperson, Dan Nwomeh, in a statement said, the founder of the foundation, Atedo Peterside, informed the ministry that all private hospitals affected by the ...

According to Sahara Reporters, the fiancé of Obi Ejelonu, the nurse who died of the Ebola virus after being infected by Patrick Sawyer, is suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus from his late fiance. The suspected patient, whose name was given simply as “Dennis”, allegedly suffered from a high ...