Ignatius Okpara, Enugu As part of precautionary measures to check the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the Enugu state government on Tuesday took its ongoing sensitization programme against the spread of the virus to banks, Hotels and public and private Institutions. Speaking at a one day sensitization/ Resource mobilization meeting with […]
By Niyi Adeyi The Saudi Arabia authorities have cleared the air on the confusion surrounding the fate of the pilgrims from some countries, for this year’s Hajj exercise, confirming the Nigerians will be allowed entrance into the kingdom despite outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country. Still, pilgrims from Sierra Leon, Liberia […]
An American federal air marshall has been screened and quarantined for Ebola Virus in Houston after he was injected with a syringe full of an unknown substance at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The man reported the attack, which occurred in an unsecured, public area of the terminal, and the FBI and the […]
By Ayo Balogun Less than a week after the Federal Government backslided on the resumption date of the country’s Nursery/Primary and secondary schools, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has kicked against Monday September 22, 2014 as a commencement date for the new academic session. The association’s position was made public Monday by its National […]
Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State government Friday dismissed reports that an Ebola patient was receiving treatment at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, (FETHA), saying the information was misleading. African Examiner Correspondent gathered that the rumour report threw many residents of the state into panic and anxiety. Reacting in a statement, the State Commissioner for […]
Authorities in Kaduna state have indicated that the suspected case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) declared yesterday has tested negative after all. The 19 year old suspect who is an undergraduate of the Ahmadu Bello Univesity (ABU), Zaria, has since been quarantined at the ABU teaching Hospital and subjected to laboratory test, after showing some […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Carter Leslie died at the Muritala Muhammad Airport, Lagos on Tuesday. African examiner learnt that the envoy fell ill while onboard of Delta Airlines from Atlanta Georgia which arrived Nigeria around 4pm on Tuesday. The situation however led to chaos at the airport as people […]
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen Barely a week after the confirmation of the country’s sixth Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) casualty in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, another 19 year old teen, suspected to be infected with Ebola has been quarantined in a special centre in Kaduna state, North Western Nigeria. Sources at the Ahmadu Bello University […]
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen/Ayo Balogun The Federal Government has convened third emergency meeting of the National Council on Health (NCH), in Abuja on the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The meeting, it was gathered is at the instance of the latest Ebola casualty, Dr Ike Enemuo, in Rivers State. It was specifically meant to check […]
…Order Students to Stay Away from Campus for 21 Days With Ebola in mind, US campuses are screening students arriving from Nigeria and other West African countries. Extra health checks are part of protocols campuses throughout the United States have in place as they prepare for as many as 10,000 students from Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia […]
By Ayo Balogun The deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, has hit Port Harcourt and claims the life of a medical doctor, Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu disclosed on Thursday. At a news conference on Thursday, Onyebuchi said the total number of EVD cases so far reported in Nigeria stood at 15, while the total […]
Two more Nigerians have survived the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and have been discharged from the Isolation Centre after being treated, says the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu. This brings to seven people that have survived the Ebola disease out of the 13 people infected with the disease, with five death, including the […]
Liberia has recorded another Ebola casualty as government announced Monday the demise of a medical Doctor, after receiving injection of the experimental virus Zmapp drug. The Liberian Information Minister, Lewis Brown who disclosed the Doctor’s identity as Abraham Borbor, in a chat with the newsmen in Monrovia, the country’s capital, explained that the late Physician, […]
Sequel to the rampaging Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the Republic of Benin has postponed indefinitely, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 64th session of the African Ministers of Health in the country. Benin’s Foreign Minister, Nassirou Arifari Bako disclosed this Sunday, explaining that decision to postpone the meeting slated for September 1 to 5, was reached […]
The world will contend with the outbreak of the deadly and ravaging Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) for the rest of the year, just as the possibility of putting it out now is remote, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed. The global heath body’s Spokesperson, Fadela Chaib, droped this hint weekend at a press briefing. […]
By Ayo Balogun The Federal Government has confirmed the country’s first two cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in secondary contacts of the index case – the Liberian-American, Late Patrick Sawyer. Minster of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu made the confirmation Friday in Abuja at a press briefing. Professor Chukwu explained that the two patients were […]
A multi-million-pound emergency funding package for research that could help to contain the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and future outbreaks of infectious disease was announced on August 20, 2014, by the Wellcome Trust. Wellcome Trust also announced the establishment of a strategic partnership with the Dangote Foundation, an African-based international philanthropic organisation, to support […]
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu discloses that Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, the female consultant physician who contracted Ebola while treating the late Patrick Sawyer is dead. The minister announced the death of Adadevoh on Tuesday. The deceased contracted the deadly disease while attending to Sawyer, who had full blown Ebola. With her death, Ebola has […]
A Nigerian woman who arrived on a flight to the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi and later died in the city may have been infected with the Ebola virus, said health officials. The health authority in the emirate said in a statement carried by the Emirati state news agency WAM that the 35-year-old […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu As part of precautionary measures to check the deadly Ebola virus, the Catholic Diocese of Enugu on Sunday banned indefinitely, shaking of hands during (mass) church service. Hand shake during mass is an aged long tradition of the Catholic church across the globe. In line with the Roman Catholic doctrine, while mass […]
