The remaining $100,000 is to be contributed to the African Union Support Mission to the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, initiated by the African Union Chair, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma
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Dr. Dlamini Zuma, the Chairperson of the AU Commission, announced this shortly after a business round table with members of the private sector at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Saturday
Nigeria received recognition and glowing commendation for its efforts to combat the Ebola Virus Disease and Wild Polio Virus Type 1 from the World Health Organization Regional Director of Africa, Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo, at the conference, which was officially opened by the President of Benin, Dr. Thomas Boni Yayi
Dean of the Diplomatic Corps and Cameroon Ambassador to Nigeria, Salaheddine Abbas-Ibrahima, claimed that many countries had lifted restrictions on travel from people from Nigeria after the WHO certification
Those three countries account for all but 10 of the fatalities.
The Supervising Minister of Health, Dr. Khaliru Alhassan, said this in Abuja while addressing newsmen on Nigeria’s efforts at containing the spread of the virus in the West African sub region
The grant comes under the Bank’s multinational crisis response technical assistance project, totalling $7.65 million to support the three countries and two regional institutions – ECOWAS and the Mano River Union – in addressing the critical gaps in medical human resource capacity, training and provision of incentives to local health workers in order to improve response to the Ebola outbreak
The Confederation of Africa Football has written to Ghana to consider hosting the tournament, following the request by the original host, Morocco, for a postponement due to the outbreak of Ebola, which has killed some 4,500 people in West Africa
The UN’s health agency said it aimed to begin testing the two vaccines in the new year on more than 20,000 frontline health care workers and others in west Africa – a bigger rollout than previously envisioned
He also announced a N50 million support to First Consultant Hospital, Obalende, Lagos State, where the index case, Patrick Sawyer died, to assist it bounce back to business
According to cogent report obtained by the Heritage at the weekend, Speaker Tyler’s sister (name withheld) is currently seeking treatment at the ELWA 2 Hospital where she was admitted after contracting the killer disease
Alhaji Lamidi Alabi, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, stated this during a visit to some of the designated training centres
The 54-year-old man said that he was infected with the deadly haemorrhagic fever on Wednesday while on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana
In a statement issued in London on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said President Jonathan and his party were wrong to have appropriated the credit for the successful containment of the EVD without giving due credit to the real heroes of the successful battle: Dr. Stella Adadevoh and her colleagues at the First Consultant Hospital; officials of the Ministries of Health in Lagos and Rivers States; and patriotic Nigerian volunteers, among others
The manner in which Ebola crept into Nigeria should be a concern to stakeholders. How Sawyer outsmarted airport authorities and other officers calls for question. Because government officials have preoccupied themselves with money-making and politics, they could not strategise for the disease that has been threatening all other African countries
The NDLEA boss who made the disclosure in Lagos at the weekend, said: “Suspected drug traffickers, including persons who test positive for the ebola virus will not go unpunished. All commands of the Agency have been directed to carry out compulsory pre-detention screening to prevent the deadly ebola epidemic
The guest lecturer, Prof. Noel Wannang, said journalists should be the first to know the basic things about the EVD because they are the most vulnerable group of people in the society as they are exposed to certain dangers in trying to handle their job
Peter Piot, the scientist who discovered the Ebola virus in 1976 in the DR Congo, said the World Health Organisation…
“It’s a temporary measure to take care of the welfare of our remaining workers,” WHO spokesperson, Christy Feig, told Reuters
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