Sports enthusiasts express the fear that the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in some West Africa countries may somewhat affect sports development, especially in the affected countries including Nigeria.

The Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC) on Wednesday in Abuja assured Nigerians that its personnel would not abandon victims of road accidents following the recent Ebola outbreak in the country.

Eight experimental treatments and two vaccines for Ebola were on the table Thursday as 200 health experts met to discuss how to end the world’s worst-ever outbreak of the killer virus.

An Ebola outbreak in Nigeria’s oil producing hub of Port Harcourt could spread wider and faster than in the financial capital, Lagos, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government has alerted residents on the activities of some “unscrupulous” people who are purportedly, hawking “Ebola Cassettes, Test Kit” to unsuspecting people. In a statement Wednesday by the Special Adviser on Media to Governor Babatunde Fashola, Mr Hakeem Bello, the fake items which are branded as “Rapid Response Canada with […]

Kaduna state was gripped in anxiety Wednesday as the result of the test on its first suspected Ebola victim was being awaited.

One of two US missionaries in West Africa who survived Ebola spoke out for the first time Wednesday, thanking God for her recovery but admitting she went through “dark days.”

Authorities of the two Ebola isolation centres in Bayelsa State, the Federal Medical Centre, FMC and Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, yesterday, dismissed as “dangerous rumour,” claims that four deaths had been recorded in the state from the dreaded Ebola virus, noting that an abandoned corpse in the state capital was a hit and run victim.

Joanne Liu, President of International Medical Charity – Medecins sans Frontieres – has accused world leaders of failing to come to grips with the Ebola threat in West Africa.

Kaduna state may have recorded its first case of the Ebola virus infection. The Public Relations Officer of the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, ABUTH, Mallam Bilyaminu Umar Tuesday told our correspondent on phone that a law student from ABU has been admitted at the ABUTH Specialist Hospital, Shika, Zaria with signs similar to that of the Ebola lethal fever.

EBOLA fright: Thedecision of the Rivers State Government to site an Ebola Quarantine Ward, EQW, at Oduoha –Emohua community in Emohua Local Government Area of the state ignited tension between government and the villagers, last week.

The Lagos State Government on Monday said it had received the N200million pledged by the Federal Government to support the containment of the Ebola Virus Disease in the state.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to “promote a rights-based approach to healthcare for millions of disadvantaged Nigerians to control and combat the Ebola disease.”

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said on Monday there was no case of the Ebola Virus Disease in the Federal Capital Territory as being speculated.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Monday said 271 people suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus were under surveillance in Lagos and Port Harcourt as at Sunday.