AN experimental Ebola treatment is being sent to Liberia for two ill doctors who will become the first Africans to receive the untested ZMapp drug

LAGOS lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, has faulted the declaration of emergency on Ebola Virus by the Federal Government saying there was no provision under the constitution to justify such declaration.

THE World Health Organisation has issued ethical considerations for use of unregistered interventions for EVD. In a statement issued after a 12-man consultation panel discussion, yesterday, the organisation noted that although research efforts for drugs and vaccines for Ebola virus disease have shown promising results in the laboratory, they have not yet been evaluated for safety and efficacy in human beings.

COTE d’Ivoire the economic powerhouse of French-speaking West Africa, on Monday banned air travellers from the three countries worst-hit by the Ebola outbreak and ordered its flagship carrier Air Cote d’Ivoire to cease flights to and from them.

A SPANISH missionary who caught Ebola in Liberia has died of the disease. Miguel Pajares, 75, died on Tuesday at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, where he was being treated in isolation.

AUTHORITIES of the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, Rivers State, have said that there were no Ebola cases at the airport, adding that measures were already in place at the airport to check the virus.

By authorising the use of experimental drugs in the fight against Ebola, the World Health Organisation is allowing a shortcut in drug-vetting procedures that usually takes years.

The new Minister of Aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka Tuesday assured Nigerians that the country’s airports will not be transit points for the transmission of the Ebola virus. The minister gave the assurance while briefing aviation reporters on the outcome of his facility tour of Lagos Airport and interaction with aviation union workers . He also affirmed that the Aviation Master Plan was still on course.

THE Edo State Government Tuesday explained that the man who died last Sunday in Udo community of Ovia South West Local Government Council of the state, died of bleeding from peptic ulcer and not Ebola virus as earlier rumoured.

A US company that makes an experimental drug for treating the often deadly Ebola virus said Monday it has sent all its available supplies to West Africa.

Lagos State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, yesterday, picked holes in the well publicised Federal and state governments’ Life Insurance Cover for medical doctors and other health workers that volunteer to assist in the management of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, saying “they are willing to volunteer if there are enough protective gadgets and details of the insurance clearly spelt out.”

I THINK it is time we work on the way forward as regards this deadly disease Ebola. I work for a multinational company that believes in emergency response plan. See the way the US is managing the same Ebola. Ghana, I learnt has closed her border. Your Excellency Sir this is my advice: I want Mr President to shutdown the whole nation for one week. “everybody stay where you are”

IN a development that raises a host of ethical issues, Spain announced it had obtained a scarce U.S.-made experimental Ebola drug to treat a Spanish missionary priest infected with the killer virus

Togo want next month’s Africa Cup of Nations game in Guinea to be moved because of fears about the Ebola virus.

A non governmental organisation, Initiative for Grassroosts Advancement, INGRA, has tasked the Kogi State Government to put measures in place that will safeguard the residents of the state from the viral disease, Ebola, that was threatening the country.