Ebola: Nigerian doctor who treated Sawyer down with disease

The Custodian August 4, 2014

Lagos recorded its second case of Ebola on Monday as a doctor who treated the Liberian victim, Patrick Sawyer is said to be down with the virus. Nigeria’s Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu had disclosed.

Sawyer died in Lagos last month after arriving in Lagos via a plane from Liberia.

Ebola has killed 826 people in West Africa since the outbreak began in February, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

“As of today, one of the doctors that treated the late Mr Sawyer has tested positive to the Ebola virus,” Chukwu told a news conference.

He added that of the 70 people who were under surveillance, eight had been “quarantined at an isolation ward provided by the Lagos state government.”

Ebola is one of the world’s deadliest diseases, with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent of its cases.

The disease starts with headaches and fever, and final-stage symptoms include external and internal bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea. There is no effective treatment and no vaccine to protect against it.

The outbreak began in the forests of remote eastern Guinea in February.

Jonathan sacks NNPC GMD

The Custodian August 2, 2014 

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday sacked the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Andrew Yakubu.

The President, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, named Dr. Joseph Dawha as Yakubu’s replacement.

Abati also announced the appointment of Mr. Anthony Ugonna Muoneke as the new Managing Director of the Nigeria Petroleum Development Corporation.

Further shake-up in the NNPC as approved by the President , according to the statement, saw Ms. Aisha Mata Abdurrahman reassigned as the corporation’s Group Executive Director, Commercial and Investment; while Dr. Attahiru B. Yusuf was named the Group Executive Director, Business Development.

All the appointments take immediate effect.

The new GMD of the NNPC hails from Borno state.

He has served previously as the Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production, NNPC and Managing Director, Integrated Data Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the NNPC.

Muoneke, the new MD of the NPDC, hails from Anambra state.

Called to the Nigerian Bar in 1985, he has over 29 years’ experience at both local and international levels in the oil and gas as well as the energy and power sectors, including serving as Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited.