4 Ebola Virus Victims Discharged From Hospital After A Successful Treatment

The Minister of Health Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced that four additional confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease who have been managed successfully and are now disease free have been discharged home today.

It includes two male medical doctors and one female nurse. The three participated in the treatment of the index case while the fourth person was a female patient at the time the index was on admission.

This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with Ebola Virus Disease who have now been discharged from hospital.

Recall Resident Doctors NLC Tells Federal Government

The Nigerian Labour Congress have described the recent mass dismissal of resident medical doctors in federal hospitals across the country by the Federal Government is ill-advised.

In a press statement by the NLC, The President Abdulwaheed Omar said that what the country needs urgently is recruitment of more health professionals, well equipped public hospitals, and a well organized health system capable of responding to the health concerns of our growing population and not sacking of any category of health personnel.

The Labour scribe said that the NLC believe the Federal Government was misadvised and also misled by this action. 

APC Plans Nationwide Thanks Giving To Celebrate Modu Sheriff’s Defection To PDP

The All Progressives Youth Forum is planning to organize a nationwide ‎thanks giving with special Sunday church service and umma'at prayers over the planned defection of former Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff from the APC to PDP according to Barrister Ismail Ahmed the Forum's chairman

Sheriff had on Friday confirmed his planned defection to PDP when he told State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan that his movement to PDP was in Nigeria’s best interest. 

Barrister Ismaila Ahmed said the Forum received the news with so much joy as it considers his exit as the best thing that would ever happen to the life of the party due to what it calls 'strategic blackmail of the APC  by the PDD using Sheriff's alleged links with the Boko Haram, regardless whether Sheriff was guilty or not". 

EFCC Partners Lottery Commission On Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has offered to assist the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, NLRC in tackling the menace of lottery scam and other unwholesome practices in the lottery sector.

Ibrahim Lamorde, Executive Chairman, EFCC, made the offer while receiving Mr. Adolphus Joe Ekpe , Director General, NLRC, who led his management team to the Commission on a courtesy visit.

The EFCC boss who lamented the manner Nigerians are being ripped off their hard earned resources through unscrupulous lottery promotions expressed the Commission’s preparedness towards cleaning up the lottery industry of cheats and illegal lottery operators.

According to him, the Commission “will make available its operatives in the area of investigation and detection so as to have a joint team to clean up the system”.

Lamorde said the war against graft can only be fought and won through the collaboration of all stakeholders in the country.

Speaking earlier, NLRC Director General, Mr. Ekpe, said that the team was in the Commission to solicit support of EFCC in the area of lottery crime detection and investigation; arrest and prosecution of lottery offenders; and staff attachment and training in fighting financial crimes in relation to lottery activities.

61 Secondary Ebola Contacts Certify Free In Lagos

Sixty-one people out of the secondary contacts being monitored in Lagos over the Ebola virus disease have been certified free and discharged.

The state Governor, Babatunde Fashola made this known while reacting to allegations that victims quarantined in Lagos have been abandoned.

Governor Fashola who explained that the victims were being cared for by volunteer workers stated that getting sufficient knowledgeable personnel, especially health workers to care for them have been a challenge.

My Email Account Was Hacked - Reuben Abati

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati has disowned a statement purportedly issued by him indicating that President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed the location of the abducted Chibok school girls and exposed Boko Haram masterminds.

Reueben Abati in a statement attributed the press release to fraudsters who he said hacked into his email account in an attempt to mislead the public at the expense of the credibility of the Jonathan administration.

He condemned what he described as criminal resort to political dirty tricks which seeks to cynically play on national concern and emotions about the Boko Haram insurgency and fate of the abducted Chibok school girls.

Nigerian Medical Association Threaten To Collapse Sector If The Federal Government Fail To Withdraw The Suspension Of Residency Training

Members of the Nigerian Medical Association and the National Association of Resident Doctors have threatened to collapse the nation’s health sector should the federal government fail to withdraw the circular suspending the Residency Training Programme.

The doctors during a protest in Abuja described the action of President Goodluck Jonathan and the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu as an act of desperation.

The President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, Doctor Jibril Abdullahi said the suspension of the programme was illegal.

NMA President, Doctor Kayode Obembe called on the federal government to rescind its decision and offer unconditional reinstatement of the sacked doctors.

He also warned the affected doctors against collecting any sack letter or sign any register opened in any hospital.