Nigerian Ebola volunteers accuse Nigieria Center for Disease Control of embezzling N28m Ebola fund

Nigerian Ebola Volunteers who recently returned to the country after successfully contributing to the eradication of Ebola in Liberia, have accused the management of Nigeria Center for Disease Control of embezzling N28 million given to them by the Federal Government for the fight against the deadly virus when it ravaged Nigeria in July last year.

The volunteers also accused the Federal government, African Union and other health bodies of poor welfare while they were serving in Liberia.
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Nigerian Solider Tests Positive To Ebola In Liberia.

A Nigerian soldier on the United Nations’ peace mission in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola, the Associated Press reports. He is expected to be flown to the Netherlands for treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.

The soldier will go into isolation at a “calamity unit” at the University Medical Center Utrecht, according to Inge Freriksen.
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Regina Askia Joins Team To Fight Ebola In US

Former Nigerian Beauty Queen and actress, Regina Askia has volunteered to be among the few nurses who are ready to fight Ebola in the States. Regina wrote on her Facebook page not most of her colleagues (nurses) were not willing to take up the challenge and those who were ready demanded a sum of $200 per hour. But she went forward and volunteered herself for free. Interestingly, she is the only female at the hospital she works that volunteered. Bless her and may she not contract the virus during her fight in battling it.

Obama Did not risk by Embracing Former Ebola Patient: Press Secretary

US President Barack Obama is not at risk of contracting the Ebola virus after hugging Nina Pham who just recovered from the infection, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.
"He [the President] was not at all concerned about any risk that would be associated with him showing his gratitude to her [Pham] by hugging her," Earnest told reporters at a press briefing Friday.
Pham, a healthcare worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, treated Eric Duncan who was infected with Ebola and died on October 8. Pham later contracted Ebola and was treated at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.

"I've Unfollowed everyone on Twitter who is from or has been to West Africa" - Mumu tweets

 The guy really mean business oh ! You'd believe he was only trying to be funny but he really unfollowed many people...and then wrote a couple of more rubbish. More bellow.

WHO to declare Nigeria Ebola-free today

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The World Health Organisation is preparing to announce that Nigeria has not had a confirmed case of Ebola for 42 days – or two incubation periods of 21 days – just as it did for Senegal on Friday.

WHO on Friday declared Senegal free of Ebola after 42 days passed without a new confirmed case.

“WHO officially declares the Ebola outbreak in Senegal over and commends the country on its diligence to end the transmission of the virus,” the UN health agency had said in a statement.

The benchmark of 42 days is twice the maximum incubation period for the disease.

Nigerian Students Are Now Been Denied Of Admission Because Of Ebola

Despite being an Ebola-free country, some Universities in the US are now rejecting Nigerian students admission. Twitter user @Idrisayobello shared one of those rejection letters on twitter and wrote, "Ironic that Navarro College only 31 miles away from Dallas with an active #Ebola case is denying admission to Nigerians who are ebola-free!". This is ridiculous!