Tag: Ebola virus
Cleric calls for prayers to end Ebola
Sheikh Suleiman Bibire, the Chief Imam of Tudunwada Central Mosque, Lugbe, Abuja, on Tuesday urged Nigerians to intensify prayers to…
Ebola Death Toll Passes 1,200
Cases in West Africa’s Ebola outbreak this year have risen to 2,240, including 1,229 deaths, the World Health Organisation (WHO)…
Ebola: WHO against the travel ban – CAF
The Confederation of African Football has said that World Health Organization (WHO) “does not recommend a ban on travel to…
Missing Ebola patients found in Liberia
Liberia said Tuesday it had found 17 Ebola patients who had fled an attack on their clinic, sparking a panicked…
Ebola kills 84 in three days – UN
The Ebola virus killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, the World Health…
Ebola: Osun Osogbo festival organisers reject visitors
Organisers of one of Nigeria’s most famous cultural festivals on Monday said they were warning outsiders to stay away because…
Four more Ebola patients discharged in Nigeria
Ayorinde Oluokun Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, minister of health on Monday announced that four more patients undergoing treatment for the deadly…
Edo Inaugurates Ebola Control Committee
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Edo State Rapid Response Committee on Ebola outbreak was inaugurated Monday morning by the State Commissioner for Health.…
How Ebola Crisis Could Be Contained
By Mohammed M. Youssouf Following the death of more than 900 people in West Africa from the worst outbreak of…
Nigerian Ebola Victim Dies In UAE
A Nigerian woman with cancer who died in the Emirati capital had shown signs “that may be consistent with Ebola,”…
Edo Inaugurates Rapid Response Committee on Ebola
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Edo State Rapid Response Committee on Ebola outbreak has been formally inaugurated on Monday by the state Commissioner…
Ebola: We have it under control – Fashola
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state said the state government has curbed the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease…
Ebola: Five patients near full recovery – Minister
Onyebuchi Chukwu, Minister of Health, has said that five of the patients infected with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and treated…
Ebola: Ministry conducts animal distribution survey
The Federal Ministry of Environment, has started a survey of the distribution of animals in Abuja, as part of its…
Released Ebola patient not Dr Adadevor – Health Minister
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu on Sunday in Abuja said he never mentioned Dr Adadevor as the female…
Attack on Liberia isolation clinic highlights Ebola denial
Seventeen Ebola patients are missing after fleeing an attack on an isolation ward in Monrovia by armed youths claiming the…
Ebola: Catholic bishops approves communion in hand
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has approved the reception of Holy Communion in the hand as a precautionary measure…
Armed men free 20 Ebola infected patients in Liberia
Armed men claiming that “there’s no Ebola” in Liberia raided a quarantine centre for the deadly disease in Monrovia overnight,…
Ebola: Nigerians advised to spread facts, not rumours
A pharmacist at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Kwara, Mr Lanre Alege, has charged Nigerians to spread facts…
Ebola: Female Doctor Discharged
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Saturday announced that the first Nigerian confirmed to have contracted the Ebola…
Youth Olympics: Team Nigeria misses opening ceremony, departs Sunday
Nigeria’s contingent to the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, shunned the opening ceremony on Saturday and are…
Kenya shut borders to Ebola hit countries
Kenya on Saturday became the latest country to ban travellers from parts of Ebola-hit west Africa as Nigeria scrambled to…
Suffering and smiling in Sierra Leone’s Ebola ‘hot zone’
Virologists call it the “hot zone” — nature’s version of a nuclear ground zero, the centre of an onslaught by…
Nigeria trains 800 volunteers to fight Ebola epidemic
Nigeria has trained 800 volunteers to help fight the deadly Ebola epidemic that has already claimed four lives in Africa’s…
Ebola: Catholic diocese bars corpses in churches
The Catholic diocese of Makurdi, Benue, has barred the faithful from taking corpses of late relations to churches for funeral…
We’re Taking Care Of Ebola-Related Cases – Fashola
Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Friday clarified that the state government is taking adequate care of all patients who…
Ebola vastly underestimated – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday, expressed concern over the “vastly underestimated” scale of the Ebola outbreak as the…
Scotland tests Sierra Leonean for Ebola
A woman who fell ill at a deportation facility in Scotland has tested negative for the Ebola virus, health officials…
Lagos PMAN Advises Members On Ebola
The Lagos State chapter of Performing Musicians’ Association of Nigeria (PMAN) has cautioned its members to be mindful of the…
Ebola outbreak could take six months to control
The Ebola epidemic is moving faster than the authorities can handle and could take six months to bring under control,…