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| Aliko Dangote |
A company owned by Africa’s richest man has donated $150 million to halt the spread of Ebola in Nigeria, the government has said.
The Dangote Group, owned by 57-year-old Aliko Dangote, gave out the money as the West African nation confirmed 11 cases of the lethal haemorrhagic fever Thursday. Three people have died of the disease in Nigeria, which has killed 1,066 people in neighbouring countries.
Some 169 people are under surveillance, many of them infected after coming into contact with a Liberian man who took the disease to Lagos or with medical staff who attended to him.
The World Health Organization has called this Ebola outbreak, whose worst affected countries include Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, an international emergency. It has killed around 55 to 60 per cent of those have contracted the disease.
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