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Two years after the ill-fated Dana plane crash which claimed 153 lives on�the 3rd�of June 2012, 106 relatives�ofthe passengers�have received�insurance�claims totalling $5.05m (N821m).The Managing�Director, Prestige Assurance Plc, Mr. Anand Mittal, disclosed this to Punch �As of August 11, 2014, we have made advance payments to 106 passengers and final payments ...

Nigeria has recorded another death from� virus in Nigeria. The first two being Sawyerr and a Nigerian nurse. Find the full text of the ECOWAS statement after the cut… “The ECOWAS Commission announces with deep regret the passing of a staff member of its Lagos Liaison Office, Mr. Jatto Asihu ...

The Spanish priest, Miguel Pajares who was infected with the Ebola Virus in Liberia and was later flown back to his country has died�this morning.   The priest�who had started taking the experimental drugs died�this morning�at a Madrid hospital.   Spain’s Ministry of Heath have also�confirmed�his death.

The Ebola drug given to two Americans and a Spanish priest has been sent to a West African country that requested it, and the supply of the medicine is now exhausted, its manufacturer said. Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., based in San Diego, said it was told by U.S. health officials that ...

The Ivory Coast announced Monday that it has banned all flights from countries hit by the deadly Ebola virus. The government said in a statement that it has banned all carriers from transporting passengers from these countries. It has also suspended flights by its national airline to and from these ...

Sources at the airport told Punch that the passenger slumped in front of the Port Health Services office, while waiting to collect his vaccination card, usually known as Yellow Card. Some staff and passengers fled the scene following the man’s collapse, as they feared he was infected with the deadly ...

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has asked Rev. Fathers to start a new procedure of giving the Holy Communion to check likely spread of the Ebola virus. The Holy Communion will now be given on the palm as against placing it on the tongue of ...

One of the nurses, Obi Justina Ejelonu,�that cared for Patrick Sawyer during his stay at First Consultant Hospital Obalende, has recounted her experience with him. She was previously working at Otunba Tunwase National Peadiatric Centre Ijebu Ode in Ogun state before relocating to Lagos to work at First Consultant Hospital ...

Pastor Enoch Adeboye’s sermon on Thursday night at the ongoing 62nd annual convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, .Pastor Adeboye narrated that a high profile woman who was an executive of the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, did everything to seduce him. According to him, the woman came ...

2 feared dead, others hospitalised in Jos after excess salt consumption to prevent Ebola The rumour that Ebola could be prevented via consumption if salt seems to have caused some their lives. According to Thisday, At least two persons have been feared killed and 20 others hospitalised in various hospitals ...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Friday in Abuja declared the control and containment of the Ebola virus in Nigeria, a National Emergency. Accordingly, the President has directed the Federal Ministry of Health to work in collaboration with the State Ministries of Health, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the National ...

This somewhat sound like an unserious remark. But here’s what the coach of 17 year old Nigerian weightlifter Chika Amalaha made Nigeria proud as the first athlete to win gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, UK. The Treasurer of Nigeria Weightlifting Coaches Association Andrew Ekanem, claims young ...

She posted her apology on nairaland My confession and apology My name is Adesewa, I am coming out clean because what started has a joke has escalated into the unprecedented. How it started Yesterday i was with friend in her hostel, we were talking about this Ebola out break, when ...

In order to help our Embassy Community better understand some of the key points about the Ebola virus we have consulted with our medical specialists at the U S State Department and assembled this list of bullet points worded in plain language for easy comprehension. Our medical specialists remind everyone ...

The Liberian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Nurudeem Mohammed,told journalists in Abuja “The Liberian President President has personally called to apologise on the unfortunate development.She specifically said her country had declared a state of emergency over the Ebola epidermic in Liberia.‘She equally apologised that Sawyer ignored medical advice ...

Lagos state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has directed the immediate reversal of the school fees of Lagos State University, LASU, which was increased by the government to what it was as far back as 2011. Governor Fashola gave the directive�today August 7th�at the convocation programme of LASU which held earlier today ...

Lagos state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has directed the immediate reversal of the school fees of Lagos State University, LASU, which was increased by the government to what it was as far back as 2011. Governor Fashola gave the directive�today August 7th�at the convocation programme of LASU which held earlier today ...

The promising teenager who, alongside another female student of Gboko High School, narrowly escaped being beheaded by a ritualist after being kidnapped by a commercial vehicle operator, is still traumatized by his experience. Narrating his ordeal to Vanguard Metro, VM, Dooyum said ”I actually wept when I discovered that the ...

The death of Liberian Ebola victim, Patrick Sawyer in a Lagos hospital,has opened up a floodgate of Ebola cases as it’s been revealed he came in contact with about 70 people directly or indirectly. One of the Nigerian nurses who attended him died on Tuesday and others are still in ...

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