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2027: Court Orders INEC & NASS to Produce Documents in Rivers...
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has ordered INEC to produce Certified True Copies of the APC membership register submitted on April 20,...
Health Review: Ebola case, child malnutrition, medicine security, other developments that...
October brought major developments across Nigeria’s health sector, with the confirmation of an Ebola case in Abuja prompting renewed disease surveillance, contact tracing and...
UPDATED: Ebola: Nigeria identifies 53 contacts linked to confirmed case
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says it has identified 53 contacts linked to Nigeria’s confirmed case of Ebola disease in...
Ebola: Nigeria case highly similar to Kenya infection
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, has confirmed that the Ebola virus detected in Nigeria is highly similar to the...
France reports first human case of Shamonda virus as patient dies
France has reported the world’s first documented human infection with Shamonda virus (Shav) in a patient with a severely weakened immune system who died...
Ebola: One imported case does not mean Nigeria is experiencing outbreak
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Nigerians to remain calm, noting that one confirmed case of Ebola does not mean the country is...
Kenya confirms ninth Ebola case, says all patients improving
Kenya has confirmed a ninth case of Ebola, with health authorities saying all eight surviving patients are improving. The latest Kenyan case involves a...
Ebola: Kenya records third case, continues contact tracing
Kenya has confirmed a third case of Ebola after a 65-year-old woman tested positive while in quarantine. The woman is a close relative of...
Kenya confirms second Ebola case as contact develops symptoms in quarantine
Kenya has confirmed a second case of Ebola, involving a 39-year-old man who developed symptoms while in quarantine, 10 days after the country’s first...
Ebola: NCDC warns of importation risk after Kenya confirms first case
Nigeria is reviewing its Ebola preparedness after Kenya confirmed an imported case of the Bundibugyo virus, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention...
