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Nigeria: Press awash with deaths in Lassa fever outbreak, Bayelsa rerun election, Nigeria

2016/01/11

Confirmation of 40 deaths in Lassa fever outbreak, arrest of ex-Customs boss and the tension created by the Bayelsa national governorship rerun led the Nigerian press on Saturday.Country and a lot of other newspapers focused on government’s confirmation of the death of 40 Nigerians in a Lassa fever outbreak in 10 states.

Eighty-six people were infected in Bauchi, Nasarawa, Niger, Taraba, Kano, Rivers, Edo, Plateau, Gombe and Oyo.

Guardian reported that President of the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS), Prof Oyewale Tomori has blamed the resurgence of Lassa fever outbreak on the country’s weak surveillance system, poor funding of epidemiology studies, inadequate diagnostic centres and poor awareness of the disease part Nigerians.

Vanguard said officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, yesterday, raided the Abuja home of immediate completed Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Inde Dikko, in search of cash and other suspected items.

Ahead of today’s Governorship supplementary election in Southern-Ijaw local government and 101 polling units of Ekeremor, Nembe, Sagbama inclunding Yenagoa in Bayelsa National, the spate of violence and attacks have taken an alarming presentation, Leadership newspaper reported.

Punch zoomed on the same issue, reporting that there is palpable fear of violence occurring during today’s rerun in the contentious Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa National.

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