On Friday February 7 2020, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire stated at a ministerial briefing in Abuja that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is working hard to unravel the mysterious disease that has left many people dead in Benue State. Ehanire who disclosed that the NCDC has activated an Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) to coordinate response activities in…
Chief Olusegun Runsewe, Director General, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), on Saturday has bombed Nigerian cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, a.k.a Bobrisky, saying his impact on society is worse than Ebola’s, the deadly virus that killed thousands in West Africa a few years ago. Runsewe, a cultural sheriff of some sort for the Federal Government…
The Ebola virus which broke out beginning of August in Eastern Congo has claimed 50 lives but the government authorities, through Beni’s Mayor, Jean Edmond Nyonyi Masumbuko Bwanakawa announced on the 20th of August that there would be free treatment for the infected within the next three months. The aim was to “remove the financial…
Two patients in DR Congo confirmed to be infected with Ebola have died after they fled from hospital. According to Medecins Sans Frontieres’ (MSF), which runs a medical charity in the country, three patients left the isolation unit at Wangata hospital in Mbandaka and two of them were found dead while the third person has…
Ebola, the virus which spread through some parts of Africa in 2014, has again surfaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), The Cable reports. Congo’s health ministry has confirmed 17 deaths so far, with 21 cases with symptoms of the disease including fever. The spread of the disease has been described as a “public health emergency…
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has reinstated screening points and detecting machines at the airport to forestall the resurgence of Ebola outbreak in Nigeria. The measure was triggered by the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. FAAN’s acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, assured passengers and airport users…
Members of the press were hosted to a private screening of the movie, 93 Days at Filmhouse Cinemas, Surulere on Thursday, 11th August 2016. In attendance were the producers of the movie, Bolanle Austen-Peters, Dotun Olakunri including Sola Oyebade and Joseph Umoibom, Unit Production Manager and Line Producer respectively. 93 Days tells the compelling true life story of how Nigeria won the battle against the highly dreaded…
Today, July 20th marks the second year the highly dreaded Ebola Virus was brought into Nigeria by late Patrick Sawyerr, a situation which put citizens of the country in a state of panic at the time. Following the encounter with Sawyerr, medical practitioners at First Consultants Hospital in Lagos together with the late Dr.Ameyo Adadevoh took…
The trailer for ‘93 Days’, the highly anticipated movie on the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria is finally out. The movie tells the true life story of men and women who risked their lives and made sacrifices to save the citizens of Nigeria from the consequences of the outbreak of the highly dreaded…
According to data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease (NCDC), a total of 101 people in Nigeria have died from the growing Lassa fever outbreak. From the statistics, reported cases of the haemorrhagic disease — both confirmed and suspected — stood at 175 with a total of 101 deaths since August. The outbreak, which was…
