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A Spanish missionary who contracted the Ebola virus while working in West became the first European to die from the disease on Tuesday, succumbing to the virus in a Madrid hospital five days after being evacuated from Liberia. More than 1,000 people have died in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria since the outbreak was first reported in February. Miguel ...

The Lagos State Government must have felt it was doing something grand when, in conjunction with the Federal Government, it announced the provision of life insurance to health volunteers in order to effectively curtail the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease. In a statement issued today by Jide Idris, Commissioner for Health in Lagos, LASG said the insurance cover is ...

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano has arrested a man suspected to be the master trainer of Boko Haram female suicide bombers with 16 females who were reportedly being trained for suicide operations, Daily Trust, gathered from security sources. It was gathered that the man identified as Ibrahim Ibrahim was arrested in Dala LGA of Kano during a raid ...

The minister of health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has revealed that Nigeria now has a total of 10 cases of the Ebola virus in the country while revealing that a total of 177 people are also under surveiilance as they are being monitored closely for the virus.   The minister disclosed this at a press briefing held today in Abuja with ...

The Federal Ministry of Environment will soon upgrade its web-Based Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) for better forecasting and monitoring of flooding in the country, an official said on Monday.   Mr Johnnie Ekanem, the Deputy Director in charge of flood forecasting, monitoring and control in the Department of Erosion, Flood Control and Coastal Management in the ministry, made this ...

The death of foremost historian and former vice chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Ade Ajayi , is dead.   Investigations  reveals that the late university administrator died at the University College Hospital in Ibadan on Saturday, August 9 but the news only filtered in today. Ajayi, who enjoyed the respect of his peers, students and members of university ...

Information  says two new cases of the deadly Ebola virus in the country.   Information on the two new cases, confirmed by Federal Government officials at a press briefing today indicates that two new cases have been recorded in Lagos.   The two new cases brings the number of confirmed the ravaging Ebola virus to nine including that of the ...

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Friday paid an early morning inspection visit to the Isolation Ward prepared by the State Government for patients with symptoms of the Ebola Virus Disease, saying the facility is now set up and ready to use.   Mr Fashola who spoke in an interview with newsmen after inspecting some of the facilities at the ...

The Liberian ambassador to Nigeria, Professor Al-Hassan Conte’h, has spoken about the harassment and discrimination of Liberians living in Nigeria regarding the Ebola virus.   According to Conte’h, since the first case of Ebola brought into the country by Patrick Sawyer, Liberian not deceased, Liberians in Nigeria have been the subject of intimidation, harassment and stereotyping.   “I would like ...

The dreaded and fast killing Ebola virus has led the World Health Organisation into declaring a global health emergency just as it appealed for global aid to help afflicted countries.   The declaration was made after a two-day emergency session in Geneva, Switzerland and it has grave implications as travel restrictions may be put in place to prevent the continuous ...