Nigeria successfully contains Ebola Virus - Health Minister

The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced the successful containment of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

Onyebuchi Chukwu, minister of health, who made this known in a statement by Dan Nwomeh, special assistant on media and communication to the minister, said that Nigeria had thirteen cases of EVD including the index case, Patrick Saywer, the late Liberian-American who imported the dreaded contagious disease while on a trip to attend an official assignment in Nigeria on July 20, 2014.

With yesterday been the 38th day since the deadly virus came into the country, Chukwu revealed that the country has only one confirmed case of EVD, a secondary contact of Patrick Sawyer’s and spouse of one of the physicians who participated in the management of the index case.

Ebola in the time of insurgency

Tayo Fagbule

The outbreak of terrorism in northeast Nigeria is a tempting metaphor for the outbreak of the Ebola virus. David Kilcullen, a counterinsurgency and counterterrorism expert, uses this analogy between medicine and insurgency in a 2009 paper Terrain, Tribes and Terrorists: Pakistan, 2006-2008.

The stages of an infectious disease include incubation, pre-eruptive, infectious and recovery. Developing an optimal control strategy depends on relative infectiousness in the pre-eruptive and infectious stage. Kilcullen lists four phases: infection, contagion, intervention and rejection. 

 When an agent (a pathogen e.g. a virus or bacterium) invades the body the disease is considered infectious; if easily transmitted from person to person it is contagious – 25 percent of the deaths in the world are caused by infectious diseases.

Osun: Omisore Heads to Tribunal to Challenge Aregbesola's Victory

Senator Iyiola Omisore, flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the August 9 Governorship election in Osun state is finally heading to the election tribunal to challenge Governor Rauf Aregbesola's victory.

THIS DAY reported that a press statement issued yesterday by Omisore's spokesman, Mr. Victor Oriola, Omisore said, "We have decided to challenge this brazen attempt to subvert the wishes of the electorate who came out to support our Rescue Mission Campaign and gubernatorial candidate of the Osun State PDP at the tribunal as provided for by the constitution and electoral law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria"

Ebola: FG directs all schools to resume October 13

In a determined effort aimed at containing to its barest minimum the spread of the dreaded Ebola virus disease (EVD), the Federal Government arising from a meeting with all the state commissioners of education and the FCT education secretariat has directed all schools both private and public to re-open on Monday, October 13, 2014 for the next academic session.