Deductions from police personnel salaries not mismanage — IGP

► The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, said, weekend, that deductions from personnel of the force’s salaries into the Police Mortgage Bank Plc were not being mismanaged.
Abba offered the explanation shortly after presenting the bank’s “Share Certificates” to some personnel of the force in Abuja.

► He said: “Nobody is tampering with the deductions; some say it was fraudulent, so many, many things. I urge every personnel to exhibit the spirit of discipline and loyalty to the force. It (mortgage bank) is a worthwhile venture.

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Liberia gives experimental Ebola drug to 3 African doctors

Health care workers in Liberia have administered three doses of the rare, experimental drug ZMapp to three doctors suffering from Ebola, two medical workers in Monrovia told Reuters.

Liberia, the West African country with the highest death toll from the tropical virus at 413, received three doses of the rare serum in a special consignment last week.

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How Ebola Patients Survive the Disease

►Following the recovery and discharge of the first Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) patient from the isolation centre at the Mainland Hospital in Lagos, facts have emerged as to how the patients are recovering.

►Meanwhile, more patients undergoing medical treatment at the centre may be discharged this week, investigations revealed.

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FG defends action over Doctors' sack

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►The Federal Government, weekend, defended its decision to sack 16,000 resident doctors across the country, saying the move was to allow the government appraise the training programme, even as the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Lagos State Branch, dismissed the action describing it as ‘ ahuge joke.’

►Meanwhile, the Chairman House Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said the sack of the resident doctors by the Federal Government was ‘highly questionable’ on several fronts.
Reacting to the sack at a press conference in Lagos, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu said there had been problems with the training which also informed the ongoing doctors’ strike.

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Sack of 16,000 resident doctors insensitive, Dabiri-Erewa

In a press statement issued yesterday, in Lagos, Chairman House Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa described the sack of over 16,000 Nigerian resident doctors by the Federal Government as ‘highly questionable’ on several fronts, adding that “chief amongst which is the present emergency medical situation currently plaguing our nation.”

Dabiri-Erewa noted that it is understandable that the Federal Government may have disagreements with the striking doctors, but opting to sack all resident doctors given the present predicament is unjustifiable, insensitive and inconsiderate.

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