The U.S already warned that experimental drug Nanosilver is a pesticide…and now Nigerian Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu says the drug, developed by a Nigerian in diaspora, has failed health requirements and will not be used on Ebola patients in Nigeria. The minister said this today August 18th while receiving the US Ambassador, Mr James Entwistle, in his office ... Read More »
The Edo State Government has set up a Rapid Response Committee,to prevent deadly Ebola virus in the country. While inaugurating the committee earlier today, Dr. (Mrs.) Aihanuwa Eregie who represented the Permanent Secretary described the committee as one of the largest the state has ever set up. “You will agree with me that since the unfortunate importation of the deadly ... Read More »
PRESS RELEASE EBOLA VIRUS: FASHOLA ASSURES LAGOSIANS OF RESOLVE TO CONTAIN SPREAD,OVERCOME, DEFEAT DISEASE Confirmed victim fully recovers, 61 secondary contacts under surveillance now cleared, he says Debunks allegations of neglect of victims, rejection of useful drug, vaccine, shortage of fund Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, Sunday assured Lagosians of the resolve of his administration to contain the ... Read More »
Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema of Katsina State will today get married to Miss Maryam Yar’Adua, a daughter of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua. The wedding prayers will be held at the new Usman Dan Fodio mosque in the afternoon. Maryam is the first daughter of the late Alhaji Umaru, and her sisters, Nafisa and Zainab, are married to Governors Isa ... Read More »
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced the suspension of scheduled stream two orientation programme of the 2014 Batch ‘B’ Orientation in six states billed to start on Monday, September 1st due to the dreaded Ebola disease in the country. Brig Gen Johnson Olawumi, the Director General of the NYSC, who announced the decision in Kubwa Orientation Camp in ... Read More »
A 10-year-old primary four pupil has told the police how her teacher, Adeniran Adebayo, allegedly took advantage of her and defiled her inside the school toilet. The victim said her health teacher threatened to flog her if she made a noise while he had sex with her in the toilet. She said one of the female teachers in the school, ... Read More »
Nigerian Minister for Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu has confirmed that the Lagos nurse who travelled to Enugu against medical advice is now back in Lagos and is under quarantine with her husband. The suspect, identified as a nurse, said to have travelled to her home town to visit her family, is now under surveillance with 20 others she came into ... Read More »
To prevent an outbreak of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD), the Federal Government yesterday approved the extension of the current holiday of primary and secondary schools across the country until further notice. The development, government stated, is part of measures to curb the spread of Ebola. Also, the National Council on Health (NCH) has banned the inter-state transportation of corpses ... Read More »
The Canadian Public Health Agency has offered to release 1000 dose of a made-in-Canada experimental Ebola virus vaccine known as VSV-EBOV which has never been tested on humans but has shown to be effective in the treatment of the disease in animals. In a statement released yesterday August 12th, the Canadian Health Minister Rona Ambrose said the World Health Organization’s ... Read More »
This is really good news as the US finally agrees to give liberia experimental drug, ZMapp.The Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, announced yesterday that their country is to receive sample doses of experimental drug, ZMapp to treat doctors infected with Ebola A statement published on Mrs Sirleaf’s website on Monday said the US had approved a request from Liberia to ... Read More »
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