News of the day at a Glance: 20/10/2014. War rages in Damboa: Nigerian soldiers and Boko Haram breaks Ceasefire.Tambuwal finally defects to APC. Jimoh Ibrahim loses Newswatch. WHO declares Nigeria Ebola free

• War rages in Damboa: Nigerian soldiers and Boko Haram breaks Ceasefire
• Tambuwal finally defects to APC
• Jimoh Ibrahim loses Newswatch
• WHO declares Nigeria Ebola free

US sends scietists to study why Ebola did not spread in Nigeria

US sends scietists to study why Ebola did not spread in Nigeria 

Apparently baffled by why Ebola virus uncharacteristically did not spread in Nigeria as was expected, the United States’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention has dispatched a group of scientists  to apparently study how Nigeria contained the killer disease. 

There is been various speculations that Ebola virus was deliberately introduced into Nigeria, a densely populated country to escalate the outbreak. The world was however taken aback, when the country succeeded in managing the outbreak spread and a lot of infected people successfully treated without experimental drugs the United States was dishing out to citizens and friends. 

Ebola kills in Port Harcourt: AT least 70 people at risk of infection

Ebola kills in Port Harcourt: AT least 70 people at risk of infection

The recklessness of a doctor who flouted the directive of the Ministry of Health and  secretly treated a diplomat, who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola in Port Harcourt.

The doctor, who is yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. However, the diplomat the doctor treated is still alive.