Tag: Ebola virus
Pharmacist advises public on measures to contain Ebola spread
A pharmacist, Mr Gbenga Olubowale, on Saturday advised members of the public to observe the laid out safety measures to…
Ebola: Kano approves N33.4m for renovation of health centre
The Kano State Government has approved N33.4 million for the immediate renovation of Yar’Gaya Health Centre recently designated as an…
Senegal extends travel ban over Ebola fears
Senegal has decided to toughen restrictions on travels from Ebola-hit West African countries. Senegal’s interior ministry said on Thursday in…
Ebola: AU deploys military medics to West Africa
The African Union (AU) Commission is to deploy a joint military medical personnel and civilian humanitarian mission to tackle the…
Ebola death toll rises to 1,427 – WHO
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak sweeping through west African countries has risen to 1,427 out of more than…
Ebola: Closure of Nigeria borders not necessary yet – MDCAN
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) said on Friday that the level of threat of…
Dead Irishman tests negative for Ebola
A man who died in Ireland shortly after returning from Sierra Leone has tested negative for the Ebola virus, health…
Lack Of Skills Hampering Ebola War –-Aid Agency
Efforts to curb the deadly Ebola epidemic that swept across four West African states are being undermined by a lack…
Ebola Manufactured By Satan —T.B. Joshua
Nigeria’s top faith healer, Pastor T.B. Joshua of The Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), has declared that the killer…
Ebola: Two spouses of dead victims test positive in Nigeria
Two spouses of dead victims of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) are confirmed to have been infected by the virus. Professor…
Fears and rumours of Ebola stalk Freetown-Paris flight
Chinese people fleeing Ebola, angry Africans, understaffed flight crew, rumours and fears: the Air France flight from Freetown to Paris…
Ebola: Nigeria records two new cases
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced that two more Nigerians have been infected with…
Ebola: Dr Adadevoh’s Letter on Patrick Sawyer
Many reports have been written on social media, some straight, others embelished or distorted about what actually transpired when the…
Grasscutter Farming Is Work In Progress
By Prince Arinze Onebunne In the past decade, food prices have skyrocketed to all-time high, in 2010-2011 alone, rising food…
Ebola: NIS urges Health Ministry to send personnel to borders
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Thursday urged the Federal Ministry of Health to provide its personnel at the borders…
Ebola: Nigeria may still record a few cases – Health minister
Ayorinde Oluokun Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, Nigeria’s Health Minister said on Thursday that few cases of the Ebola Virus Disease could…
Two American Ebola patients leave hospital
Two American missionaries who were sickened with the dangerous Ebola virus while working in Liberia are doing better and have…
Ebola: FRSC distributes protective gears to operatives
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Wednesday in Abuja distributed personal protective kits to its operatives in all formations…
Why Nigeria halted burial for woman allegedly killed by Ebola in UAE
The Nigerian Embassy in Abu Dhabi said it “resisted pressure” from local authorities for the immediate burial of a Nigerian…
Vietnam releases two Nigerians isolated for Ebola tests
Vietnam has released two Nigerians isolated after arriving from west Africa with fevers, saying they show no symptoms of the…
Liberia’s Ebola clampdown turns violent as official evacuated
Violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in Liberia’s capital Wednesday when soldiers opened fire and used tear gas on…
Ebola: Five New Cases Uncovered In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government says five fresh Ebola Virus suspected cases have been uncovered with the suspected victims…
Up to 30,000 in need of Ebola drugs now
Up to 30,000 people would have required Ebola drugs in the west African outbreak by now, according to a scientific…
Liberian Police Fire Tear Gas To Disperse Ebola Protesters
Police in the Liberian capital Monrovia fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd agitating to leave a…
Nigerian showing signs of Ebola faints in Germany
A Nigerian woman was rushed to the hospital and hundreds of people were quarantined after she showed symptoms of Ebola…
Ebola: Nigerians in Austria not infected
Austria’s health ministry gave the all-clear Tuesday evening after regional authorities earlier reported two suspected cases of Ebola in two…
Vietnam, Myanmar test patients for Ebola
Vietnam and Myanmar are testing three patients for the deadly Ebola virus after they arrived in the Southeast Asian nations…
Liberia president orders curfew over Ebola outbreak
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced a nighttime curfew from Wednesday and the quarantine of two neighbourhoods, including one in…
Nigerian doctor dies of Ebola Virus
A senior doctor who treated Nigeria’s first Ebola patient has died, taking the death toll in Africa’s most populous country…
Ebola: FG targets fruit bats, healthcare wastes
Ayorinde Oluokun The Federal Government said on Tuesday that it has started a survey of areas of the country with…