NIGERIA HAS SUCCESSFULLY CONTAINED EBOLA AS AMERICA SCAMPERS FOR HELP.

Nigeria has successfully contained the scourging, ravaging and deadly Ebola virus in the country that was imported into Nigeria by a Liberian citizen, Patrick sawyer sometimes in July 2014. Thanks to the prompt and supportive efforts and collaboration of the Federal Government, the Lagos, Rivers and Enugu state governments.

No new cases of the virus have been reported since Aug. 31. Nigeria's "extensive response to a single case of Ebola shows that control is possible with rapid, focused interventions," Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said. Nigeria is looking forth to be declared Ebola Free Nation by the World Health Organisation(WHO) on the 20th of October 2014. Congratulations!

But while Nigeria is sighing of relief, transmission of the virus continues in the hardest-hit West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. According to the World Health Organization's latest report, there have been 3,865 deaths and 8,033 total cases worldwide to date.

Ebola panic is getting pretty racist and spreading like wild fire.

Nigeria's success has grabbed attention from U.S. officials hoping to prevent transmission of the virus in America, after Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas. Duncan, 42, died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. The CDC is sending researchers to Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, to study how the country was able to control the disease.

The United Nations Security Council said the international community's response to adequately address the magnitude and effects of Ebola outbreak had failed, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

Now faced with Ebola infections in America, US President Barack Obama warned on Thursday in Washington that the Ebola outbreak could spread globally if it was not contained in West Africa.

He said after a meeting with his top health advisors at the White House that there was every assurance that America could control the outbreak, but that taming the epidemic in West Africa could be the major problem.

"I am absolutely confident that we can prevent a serious outbreak of the disease in the United States, but it becomes more difficult to do so if this epidemic rages out of control in West Africa. If it does it will spread globally," he said.

Obama vowed to strengthen efforts to halt the spread of the disease in the US with tougher measures at hospitals after a second nurse contracted the virus from a patient at a Dallas hospital.

America has joined in the battle against Ebola with intensification of efforts after a 'sit and look' attitude when the West African countries were freshly attacked with the disease. Having recorded two deaths in the United States of America, Obama seems to be in the forefront of shouting at the roof-top on how serious and swift containment and fighting the scourge should be initiated to put a stop from further spread from the west African countries as he boasts of the capacity to tame the disease in America.

Someone please tell Obama that if he boasts of the capability of containing the Ebola disease in America, he should in the same vein extend such expertise in containing the ravaging disease in all other parts of the world suffering the scourge, afterall America is the acclaimed 'World power and Capital'.

Kudos to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for displaying the Naija spirit of 'Can do attitude'. Whatever they attain, we can acheive better!