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The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu   has said that a South African woman earlier quarantined at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos over suspicion that she has Ebola has tested negative to the disease. However, the minister said the quarantined South African would still be examined to check if she has any […]

Fear gripped students, parents and staff of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife on Tuesday over a report that a patient on admission at the OAU Health Centre was a suspected Ebola Virus Disease victim. Though the management of the school initially denied the development but the Oyo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Temitope Ilori, said the […]

Ngeria has recorded another Ebola case, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said Monday. Mr. Chukwu​ ​​said the new case is the fiancé of one of the primary contacts of the index case, Patrick Sawyer. Th​e new case brings the total number of Ebola cases in Nigeria to 19 with seven people dead from the […]

  The Nigerian Ministry of Health has announced that a seventh person had died from Ebola and another person was confirmed as having the virus. The latest death was a patient at the isolation ward in the oil city of Port Harcourt, where a doctor died on August 22 after treating a Liberian man who […]

Men of the Nigerian Police from the Area A Command, Lion Building, Ikoyi, Lagos State, and operatives of the Nigerian Immigration Service, on Friday raided one hotel and a guest house on Lagos Island, arresting 39 foreign nationals over the Ebola Virus Disease scare. The foreigners identified as 35 from the Democratic Republic of Congo […]

According to reports, the Sister of  the Port Harcourt-based medical doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who recently died from the Ebola virus, fled to Abia State to avoid being quarantined along with others who came into contact with the late doctor. However, one of her siblings, who is also a doctor, forced her to return to the […]

The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa could infect more than 20,000 people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday in a bleak assessment of the deadly disease. The United Nations health agency issued a strategic plan to combat the oubreak in four West African nations where it said the actual number of cases […]

Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola death outside Lagos, a doctor in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said the doctor had died on August 22, but the results of the tests have only just been made public. The medical doctor had treated a staff of the ECOWAS office in Lagos, placed […]

A doctor, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola in Nigeria. The doctor, who has yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat the doctor treated is still […]

Controversy has arisen over the N1.9 billion supposedly released by the Federal Government for the purpose of stopping the Ebola scourge. The allocation of the money was announced by the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati. Abati said on August 8: “President Jonathan also approved a Special Intervention Plan […]