Nigeria donates $3.5m to Liberia, others

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The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Wednesday said Nigeria had already donated $3.5m as part of its intervention in the affected countries.

Chukwu said the sum was made up of $500,000 to each of the countries and the balance to the common ECOWAS Fund for the disease.

He also said 591 health practitioners had volunteered to join the international force that would go to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to help in the containment of the Ebola Virus Disease.

He said the volunteers registered with his ministry at three points in Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt.
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Liberia: Nigeria Donates U.S.$500,000 to Liberia's Fight Against Ebola.

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The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has announced his country's donation of US$ 500,000 to the Government of Liberia to aid with the fight against the deadly Ebola Virus.