Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has stressed importance of the entertainment industry, especially the movie section, in positively shaping the society. Ambode, while receiving a Hollywood actor, Danny Glover, who is in the country for a new film that chronicles the Ebola Virus Disease that struck Nigeria in 2014, 93 Days, promised to throw…
Pan African banking and financial services group, United Bank for Africa Plc, UBA, has restated its commitment to the growth and development of the African movie industry by supporting the making ‘93 days’, an inspirational movie on Ebola as it happened in Nigeria. The movie tells the story of the victory over the Ebola scourge…
Confederation of African Football, CAF, has disclosed that it would announce a new host for the 2015 African Nations Cup within the next three days. The football governing body in Africa had withdrawn the hosting right from Morocco after the country asked CAF to extend the kick-off day of the competition over fears of the…
The number of persons already killed by the fatal disease called Ebola has now risen to five with the death of one Dr Ameyo Adadevoh on Tuesday in Lagos. The deceased was one of those who treated late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American believed to have transported the deadly disease to Nigeria. Adadevoh led the medical…
Director of Public Health in the Benue State Ministry of Health and Human Services, Joseph Kumba, has confirmed that two persons have died in the state after drinking and bathing with hot salted water due to the fear of contracting the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, which has killed many in West Africa. Some days ago,…
The deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, has found its way to Enugu, Aproko247 can confirm. The disease, which has killed about 1013 persons, was transported to the Coal City by a nurse who had contact with the late Liberian-American that brought the killer virus to Nigeria, Patrick Sawyer. Addressing newsmen after the weekly Federal Executive…
The first European to be infected with the feared Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, Miguel Pajares, has died in a Madrid hospital in Spain. Pajares, 75, was said to have died of the disease on Tuesday. He was a Spanish priest airlifted from Liberia on August 7, 2014, after contracting Ebola while working for a non-governmental…
Contrary to rumours that there are new cases of the deadly Ebola Virus in Nigeria, the Federal Government come out to dispel such speculations. The government assured Nigerians that no new case of Ebola has been recorded. The FG, at a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, said those who had contact with the Liberian…