•Volunteers put on their personal protective equipment The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, says genomic sequencing reveals a close similarity between the Ebola virus detected in Nigeria and the strain identified in Kenya’s first imported case, with the analysis indicating that the two viral samples differ by...
•France President Emmanuel Macron France’s President Emmanuel Macron has postponed a planned visit to Nigeria and Senegal later this month, a French presidential source said today, following riots that erupted on the sidelines of nationwide protests last weekend, reports AFP. The source, who asked not to be named, did not explicitly refer to t...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted approval-in-principle to JPMorgan to establish a merchant bank in Nigeria, to be known as JPMorgan Merchant Bank Nigeria Limited. The proposed bank marks a development in Nigeria’s financial sector, reflecting international interest in the country’s financial markets and long-term economic prospect...
•Ebola outbreak The Ebola patient in Nigeria is a Swiss woman and the wife of a staff member at Switzerland’s embassy in Abuja, Bern said today. The couple had recently travelled together to Uganda, but neither of them had visited the Democratic Republic of Congo — the epicentre of the current outbreak, the Swiss foreign […]
•Healthcare worker wears personal protective equipment (PPE)  The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has disclosed that the index patient diagnosed with the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus in Nigeria is Ugandan-born and arrived in the Federal Capital Territory with her husband on October 3, 2026. The Director General of th...
•Obasanjo and Tinubu Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms, arguing that the sharp devaluation of the naira has impoverished Nigerians and contributed to the country’s position as the world’s poverty capital. Obasanjo made the remarks yesterday during a keynote interview at the ongoing Finan...
•US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, Michael Gonzales The United States has warned that Mexican drug cartels are increasingly looking to Africa as an alternative route for trafficking synthetic drugs, after the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency dismantled four methamphetamine laboratories ...
•Jean Kaseya The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has called for urgent international support to contain the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak following confirmation of a case in Nigeria, warning that the epidemic has become a major regional public health threat. The Director-General of Africa CDC, Dr Jean Kaseya, made the appeal toda...
•Goodluck Jonathan Ahead of 2027 presidential and general elections, former President Goodluck Jonathan has warned politicians that as they do politics, they must place national interest above party loyalty and sectional considerations, declaring that Nigeria is greater than any political party and politician in the country. According to Jonat...
The federal government has reportedly commenced contact tracing after a suspected imported case of Ebola disease was identified in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with 44 close contacts said to have been identified. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, was quoted as disclosing this in a statemen...
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