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azpekuliar: One is called Awolowo Way, the other Awolowo Road.

The minister also announced that the drug, Nano Silva, which was thought could be used to treat Ebola patients in Nigeria, was said not to have met the requirements of the National Health Research ethics code.

Erica Jefferson, a spokeswoman for the FDA, said she could not provide any information about the product referenced by the Nigerians.

The FDA did not specify any products in its warning.

amolak: You are right, the same thing is happening in Admiralty road lekki phase1.

princeonx: Both in Ikoyi and Lagos? I thought there's one in Nigeria?

atikubaba: sounds lofty .But how is going to be enforced ?is going to be enforced by the same "men in black" who always connive with them in the nefarious activities.

CFCfan: It was built by Julius Berger

[size=14pt][bold]Ebola: China quarantines Nigerian athletes at Youth Olympics[/bold][/size]

on august 13, 2014 at 9:07 pm in sports

By Tony Ubani

Team Nigerian athletes to the on-going Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China pulled out of the Competition Wednesday following the discrimination of the athletes who were quarantined, isolated and barred from training alongside other athletes of the World since arriving the competition venue.The Youth Olympics is scheduled to hold in Nanjing, China from August 16 to August 18. And Team Nigeria were to participate in three sports – Athletics, Wrestling and Beach Vollleyball, with twelve athletes.

In a statement signed  Wednesday by the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye Nigeria protested to the organisers that the treatment to the Nigerian athletes were inhuman.The decision to withdraw Team Nigeria from the Games was taken after a meeting with Sports Minister, Dr Tammy Danagogo, Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, President, Engr Sani M. Ndanusa and the Director General of the National sports Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye.

Though the officials have not reacted to Nigeria’s withdrawal of her athletes, the discrimination and subsequent quarantine of the athletes is not unconnected to the Ebola virus that is ravaging part of West Africa.The athletes and their officials have been directed to leave China and head home.

[size=14pt][bold]Nigeria withdraws team from 2014 Youth Olympics in China over Ebola discrimination[/bold][/size]

Posted On 13 Aug 2014By : Web Master

Comment: 0Tag: Nanjing 2014, News, Nigeria, Sports Entertainment News

Nigerian athletes and officials to the on-going 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China have been directed to leave and come home after the country pulled out of the competition on Wednesday following discrimination against its athletes.The athletes were quarantined, isolated and barred from training alongside other athletes of the World since arriving the competition venue.

In a statement signed Wednesday by the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye Nigeria protested to the organisers that the treatment to the Nigerian athletes were inhuman.


The decision to withdraw Team Nigeria from the Games was taken after a meeting with Sports Minister, Dr Tammy Danagogo, Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, President, Engr Sani M. Ndanusa and the Director General of the National sports Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye.

The Youth Olympics is scheduled to hold from August 16 to August 18, and team Nigeria were to participate in three sports – Athletics, Wrestling and Beach Vollleyball, with twelve athletes.

[size=14pt]Rwanda express Ebola concerns in Nigeria to Caf[/size]

By Andrew Jackson Oryada

BBC Sport, Kigali

The Rwanda Football Federation (Ferwafa) has written to Caf over worries about the cases of the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria.

Rwanda are due to play the Super Eagles in Calabar on 6 September in a 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.

"We wrote a letter to the Confederation of African Football for their advice on the situation in Nigeria," Ferwafa president Vincent Nzamwita said.

"We're waiting to see if they can change the game, it's a big worry."

He added the federation is also getting direction from the government of Rwanda.

"If the government decide that the Amavubi does not travel, then we shall respect that," he added.

So far there have been three confirmed deaths from Ebola in Nigeria, all of those cases so far are linked to the death of a Liberian visitor to Lagos on 25 July.

The other two teams n Group A alongside Nigeria and Rwanda are South Africa and Sudan, who will be monitoring the situation too.

The outbreak has claimed the lives of more than a thousand people mainly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

Caf has ordered Sierra Leone and Guinea to move their opening home Nations Cup qualifiers to neutral venues due to the outbreak.

Sierra Leone have approached Ghana to host their tie against DR Congo on 10 September.

The Ghana Football Association has said while it is keen to help out as it is "uncertain about the health implications for our country."

As a result the GFA has recommended that the Sierra Leone Football Association asks their government to make a formal request to the government of Ghana for consideration by the Ministry of Health.