[b]Lagos (AFP) - Nigeria has suspended the Gambian national airline from flying into the country, alleging "unsatisfactory" measures by the airline to contain the spread of Ebola virus, officials said on Sunday.

The "NCAA (Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority) has reviewed the measures put in place by your airline as contained in your letter of 30th July, 2014 and have found these measures unsatisfactory," NCAA said in a letter to Gambia Bird Airlines.

"Consequently, your flights into Nigeria have been temporarily suspended with immediate effect until such a time that you are able to put in place acceptable and satisfactory measures," said the letter, a copy of which was sent to AFP.

The contents of the airline's letter to the NCAA were not disclosed.

NCAA is the government agency that serves as watchdog for all airlines operating in the country.

The Gambian national carrier flies to Lagos twice weekly. It also flies to other African countries in the region: Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Senegal.

NCAA said that part of its efforts to curb the spread of the virus was to to direct all airlines operating into Nigeria from Guinea, Freetown and Monrovia "to put in place adequate measures to ensure that passengers with this disease are not boarded and brought into the country."

"Such measures may include suspension of flights into these countries," NCAA added.

An American Liberian who arrived Lagos from Monrovia, capital of Liberia, via Lome (Togo), eventually died of Ebola virus in a Lagos hospital last July 25.

A Nigerian nurse who had contact with the Liberian also died last week while seven others have been confirmed to have the virus in Lagos.

Nigeria along with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are the hardest hit countries by the epidemic, which the WHO has called the worst in four decades. Nearly 1,000 people have died of the virus in these four countries, WHO said.

Nigeria's president on Friday declared a national emergency over the deadly Ebola virus.[/b]
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nice move

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Good one

Good move but not enough. We should remember that this is just one airline out of several others that enter this country from all West African countries on a daily basis. Well, it doesn't take anything away from the fact that we have started putting some preventive measures in place.

Again, I just hope we are not focusing all our attention on air entries. If more that 50% of the cars on Nigerian roads made it in illegally, through the pores in our forests, then I am scared. Our customs are so used to staying on our streets & roads to ask us for custom papers for vehicles that they have collected bribes to allow in illegally.

I have read in the news that we are making effort to check air travelers entering the country, but i haven't heard about an extra effort put to check the entries through non-road Cameroon and Niger Republic borders. Or maybe I missed it.

Medicine after death.....but not doing it is worse, so they are still on track I guess.

First time am close to FTC

Long expected.....

Gambia?

nice move

good

they should have done this even before that fat patrick came here.

again it's nigeria so laid back

I wonder ooooo

dy r finally doing what dy would hav done since

MIne...

FINALLY!!!

Olucheye: Medicine After Death

but it still serves as preventive measure

Too little too late. We are the ones to be avoided now.
Ivory Coast and Ghana have somehow stayed safe even when they are closer to the hot zone.
We need to do more much earlier as a Nation to get ahead. Maybe this is what wakes us up.
Maybe.....

How can Nig be listed as one of the hardest hit with just two dead persons and seven living victims?

Seriously the government and it's agencies are not doing badly Watching and trying to curb the spread of the virus, I hope the virus can kill all corrupt leaders alone and give the youth a chance.all these old men has failed us.God protect every Nigerian from this deadly virus

Hope we won't feel hurt when America suspends Nigerian airlines from their country.

Any Ebola case from Gambia ?

ur point??

Olucheye: Medicine After Death

Good. Govt needs to be even more proactive.

These Ebola sef, what's really ur problem