Tag: Ebola virus
Ebola: FCT distributes preventive items to schools
The FCT Administration has commenced the distribution of preventive items against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as directed by the…
Nigerian baby cleared of Ebola suspicion in Australia
A Nigerian child who was suspected to have been infected with Ebola has been cleared of the illness in a…
Ebola: UNICEF makes case for Liberia, Sierra-Leone, others
Mrs Jane Giogh, United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) representative in Nigeria, has appealed to countries with adequate human resources…
Ebola: Lagos clears last suspect, affirms Sept. 22 resumption date
The Lagos State Government on Friday said the last suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the state…
Ogun postpones resumption date of schools to Oct. 8
The Ogun Government on Friday in Abeokuta announced 8 October as the new resumption date for private and public schools…
Lamboginny, Clay Take Ebola Campaign To Snake Island
Funsho Arogundade Still basking in the euphoria of their successful musical collaboration, “Broken”, music star and activist Lamboginny and fast…
Ebola screening for Nigeria’s Mecca-bound pilgrims
With some 76,000 Nigerian Muslims expected this year at the hajj in Saudi Arabia, organisation was always going to be…
Ebola: States, unions differ on school resumption date
The Federal Government, which directed public and private primary and secondary schools in the country to resume for the next…
Security Council: Ebola threatens world peace
The UN Security Council on Thursday declared the Ebola outbreak a threat to world peace and called on countries to…
Ebola survivors meet Fashola, narrate harrowing experience
Kazeem Ugbodaga Five Nigerians who survived the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria have recounted their ordeal…
Five Guineans missing after Ebola workshop violence
Five people were missing Thursday after locals in Guinea attacked a delegation meant to educate them on Ebola, apparently because…
Malta turns away ship with suspected Ebola case on board
Malta has turned away a ship travelling from Guinea with a suspected Ebola case on board after it sought medical…
NAFDAC Arrests Importers Of Fake Ebola Virus Test Kits
Oluremilekun Osobu-Asubiojo The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has apprehended two men in Lagos for…
Americans refuse to hold hands with Nigerians over Ebola
By Simon Ateba Some Americans on Wednesday refused to hold hands with Nigerians over the fear of Ebola at an…
MFM Cancels Convention Over Ebola
Femi Anjorin The General Overseer and the Founder of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles, MFM Ministries, Dr. Daniel Kolawole…
In Pictures: Ebola Virus Awareness Campaign
A rally on Ebola Virus Awareness organised by Women Arise for change initiative at Allen roundabout, Ikeja, Lagos State this…
Ebola: NAFDAC arrests importers of fake Ebola kits
Oluremilekun Osobu-Asubiojo The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC has apprehended two men in Lagos for…
Ebola: NAFDAC to arrest LUTH consultant on Ewedu claims
By Oluremilekun Osobu-Asubiojo The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC has made a pronouncement to arrest…
UN Security Council to take action on Ebola
Describing the Ebola outbreak as a threat to world peace, the UN Security Council is set to adopt a resolution…
Ebola: NUT calls for boycott of school restart
The head of Nigeria’s main teachers union called on Tuesday for a boycott of next week’s re-opening of schools, saying…
Ebola: Zamfara extends school resumption to Oct. 13
The Zamfara Government has further extended the resumption date for schools from September 22 to October 13, the Permanent Secretary…
How I Survived Ebola Virus —Doctor Who Treated Sawyer
Eromosele Ebhomele & Yisa Jamiu For Dr. Ada Igonoh, one of the doctors who had contact with the late Patrick…
$1 billion needed to fight Ebola – UN
Nearly $1.0 billion dollars is needed to fight the Ebola outbreak raging in west Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday,…
China ups its medics in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to 174
China will send more medics to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to help boost laboratory testing for the virus, raising the total…
Ebola: Rivers shut down schools without pipe-borne water
The Rivers Government on Monday warned that it would shut down any primary or secondary school without pipe borne water.…
World lost ‘precious time’ in Ebola fight – EU
The European Union urged the international community Monday to make up for “precious time” lost in the response to the…
Obama To Outline Battle Plans Against Ebola
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to detail on Tuesday a plan to boost his country’s involvement in mitigating the…
Shasore Announces Health Trust In Honour Of Adadevoh
Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Lagos State Attorney-General, AG, and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Olasupo Shasore, at the weekend announced the establishment…
Fourth Sierra Leonean doctor dies from Ebola
A fourth Sierra Leonean doctor, a woman, died Sunday after contracting the dreaded Ebola virus, the country’s chief medical officer…
Liberia dismisses 10 officials for abandoning Ebola fight
Liberia’s leader Sunday said she had sacked 10 senior government officials who defied an order to return to the west…