Doctor dies of Ebola in Port Harcourt

Dan Nwomeh, a Ministry of Health spokesman, said Thursday that a doctor in Port Harcourt has died from Ebola fever.

The doctor was infected he treated a primary contact of Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought the dreaded disease to Nigeria.

His death brings the number of Ebola fatalities in Nigeria to 6.

The total number of recorded cases had risen by two to 15, the other one being the wife of the doctor who is showing Ebola symptoms and whose test results are awaited.

Nwomeh said 70 contacts of the doctor were now under surveillance in Port Harcourt.

The news came two days after Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said

3rd int’l conference on gas, refining, petrochemicals holds in Port Harcourt

Participants drawn from the oil and gas industry, petrochemicals, fertiliser, the academia will gather today at the Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for the 3rd edition of the international conference on gas, refining and petrochemicals.

This time, the conference participants under the Institute of Petroleum Studies (IPS), University of Port Harcourt, would include experts from the US and UK, most of whom would todaypresent technical papers on the current trends in the gas, refining, petrochemicals and fertiliser industries.

According to Godwin J. Igwe, a professor of Chemical Engineering, with many decades of teaching experience at the prestigious Texas A&M University in Texas and a World Bank McNamara Fellow, USA, the conference would be exploring the