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1. NO SAUDI BAN
OVER EBOLA FOR NIGERIANS GOING ON HAJ - ARAB NEWS
Saudi Arabia, which has barred
pilgrims from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea from the haj due to Ebola
concerns, will allow Nigerians to attend, an official was reported on Monday as
saying, suggesting the smaller outbreak there was less worrying.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
have been worst hit by an outbreak of the disease in West Africa, with a
combined death toll in those three countries since March of 2,097, as at Sept.
5, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
A further eight people have died in
Nigeria, out of 23 cases, and there has been one confirmed case in Senegal.
2. BOKO HARAM: JONATHAN TO MEET CHAD
PRESIDENT
President Goodluck Jonathan will on
Monday depart Abuja for Ndjamena for talks with his Chadian counterpart, Idriss
Deby.
The trip is in continuation of the
Federal Government’s efforts to forge a stronger alliance with Nigeria’s
neighbours in the battle against the Boko Haram insurgents.
3. UPDATED: ANOTHER NIGERIAN IS
EBOLA-POSITIVE
Nigeria has recorded one more case of Ebola
Virus Disease (EVD), minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has
confirmed. The latest victim, the 19th case according to the minister, is a
fiance of a primary contact of the index case, Patrick Sawyer. While one more
Ebola victim was being confirmed, another was declared successfully managed and
discharged from the hospital.
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