Lagos State Government has warned residents to be wary of unscrupulous people hawking Ebola Cassettes, Test Kit to unsuspecting people. In a statement by Mr Hakeem Bello,the Special Adviser on Media to Governor Fashola, the fake items which are branded as Rapid Response Canada with test results purportedly available in 10 minutes is a hoax.
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The Federal government has decided that the earlier extension of resumption date for primary and secondary schools to the 13th October be reviewed to the middle of September. Addressing state House correspondents after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu said the decision to review the extension of resumption date
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THE Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, has warned against the use of text messages and social media to create fear, and spread false information on the spread of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. Commending the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government for their emergency response in containing the EVD in Nigeria, the President of the the
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Manners really do make us – it could be that they are one of the keys to being human. Scientists have suggested that good manners not only distinguish us from the rest of the animal kingdom, they help keep humans free of disease and underpin the co-operation that helps the world go round. Dr Val
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THE Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi weekend said the Corps would set up Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, screening centres in orientation camps across the country to check the spread of the dreaded EVD. He said already, the corps had taken measures to ensure the safety of the corp
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Britons are to be the first in the world to test a new vaccine against the deadly ebola virus. Altogether 60 healthy volunteers will be given the vaccine next month in a trial led by Oxford University scientists. If the vaccine performs as well in humans as in monkeys, the trial will be extended to
Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, parents and other stakeholders have expressed divergent views on the decision by the Federal Government to postpone the resumption date of all primary and secondary schools nationwide till October 13 following the recent outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the country. While some stakeholders believe that the move
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Volunteers are being paid 1,073 Naira per day to sterilize and bury the bodies of those who have died after contracting the deadly Ebola virus. As the crisis continues to spread across West African countries, workers in Kenema, Sierra Leone, have been pictured donning special protective gear and face masks to carry out the harrowing
Nigeria has been given the all clear to host AFCON qualifying matches which begin next month after the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) instructed Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia to find neutral grounds for their matches. Africa’s football governing body, in a statement, added that there is no ban on travel to and from the
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Eight out of the Nigerians infected with the deadly Ebola disease will benefit from an experimental treatment in Lagos, Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced. Chukwu, who made the announcement, today at a world press conference in Abuja, said a Nigerian scientist has offered Nigeria the drug, ‘NanoSilver’, for testing on those infected
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