FG DECLARES AIR POLLUTION IN PORT HARCOURT AN "EMERGENCY SITUATION

In a bid to urgently address the air pollution problem in Port Harcourt and its environs, the Federal Ministry of Environment has declared the air pollution in Port Harcourt an "Emergency Situation" and has subsequently issued a notice to temporarily shut down an asphalt processing plant in Port Harcourt belching out thick smoke from its operation to bring the situation under control, while investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of the air pollution.

The air pollution which usually manifest in the form of soot has been on for more than eight weeks and has greatly impacted negatively on the air quality in Port Harcourt and its surroundings.

BREAKING NEWS: Nigerian doctors call off strike t tackle Ebola Outbreak

The Nigerian Medical Association [NMA] has suspended its 65- day old strike action i order to tackle Ebola outbreak  in the country.

The body’s President, Kayode Obembe, told journalists the association’s delegates resolved to suspend the industrial action in the interest of the ongoing public health issues in the country (Ebola outbreak).

He said all Nigerian doctors are expected to report to work on Monday.

Mr. Obembe said the delegates also resolved among others that the Federal Government recall all suspended resident doctors without punitive measures.

Nigeria records two new Ebola cases - Health Minister

Nigeria has recorded two new Ebola cases, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, announced Friday.

Mr. Chukwu, a professor, said the new cases are spouses of the primary contacts of the index case, Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought the virus to Nigeria.

He said the new cases are the first secondary contacts to test positive to the deadly virus that has killed five people in Nigeria. The secondary contacts had been under surveillance since the outbreak of the disease in Nigeria, Mr. Chukwu added.

At a press conference in Lagos Wednesday, Jide Idris, the state’s Health Commissioner, told journalists that five new suspected Ebola virus cases were brought to the isolation ward of the Yaba Mainland Hospital in Lagos on Tuesday.