PUNCH US coronavirus death toll passes 32,000 WAEC mulls online tutorials, to release WASSCE timetable soon Coronavirus: WHO goofs, Tozali TV rescues Free electricity, mere propaganda, says TCN Nigeria must return to true federalism – Adebanjo Dont expect crude demand recovery before July, says OPEC COVID-19: Northern Nigeria remains high risk, says Gates Foundation […]
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BUSINESSDAY Buhari sets May 29 target to pass law adjusting oil profit sharing contracts How residents grapple with challenges of communal living in serviced estates Access, Diamond Bank to wear new brand identity in next 6 days As global bond markets signal slow down, Nigeria should take notice A thriving capital goods sector is essential […]
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Dear All, This is to notify everyone that the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) has declared a new outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after laboratory results confirmed two cases of the disease in the province of Bikoro in the northwestern part of the country. The World Health Organization(WHO) is working closely with […]
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has said that a team of Nigerian scientists have been able to produce a vaccine that would be the final cure for the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), which, as at September 13, 2015, had claimed 11, 306 lives out of 28, 256 cases recorded worldwide as stated by […]
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Sperm can carry the Ebola virus for at least 82 days, the World Health Organization saidFriday, urging men recovering from the disease to use condoms for three months after the onset of symptoms. “Because of the potential to transmit the virus sexually during this time, they should maintain good personal hygiene after masturbation, and either […]
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Peter Piot was a researcher at a lab in Antwerp when a pilot brought him a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had fallen mysteriously ill in Zaire Professor Piot, as a young scientist in Antwerp, you were part of the team that discovered the Ebola virus in 1976. How did it happen? I still remember […]
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By Gawain Ako: “Genetic resistance” in living things is the ability of that individual to resist specific diseases because its body has genes that resides in it which confers the resistance ability. A few years ago a scientist named Stephen O’Brien, at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) found out that certain “restriction genes” in mice […]
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According to Professor Adebukola Ositelu, a consultant at the Lagos University Hospital (LUTH), Long-Fruited vegetable (Ewedu in local dialect), is capable of preventing and curing the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) by boosting the immune system, Sun News says. Ositelu, who is a professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Lagos, Akoka (UNILAG), said to administer […]
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United States President, Barack Obama, has said that his country knows how to stop the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak currently ravaging countries like Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The virus has killed more than 1,500 people so far. Obama, in a less-than-three-minute YouTube video posted on Tuesday, urged Nigerians and other West African countries […]
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Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Samson Parker, has given an insight to how the dreaded Ebola virus crept into the state and claimed its first victim, Dr. Iyke Samuel Enemuo, a medical doctor. Giving an update on the ebola virus disease in the state Friday, Parker said the late Enemuo treated a Nigerian diplomat […]
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