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Lagos (AFP) - Standing just a few hundred metres from the Lagos hospital where a Liberian man died of Ebola, John Ejiofor pleaded for the world to help contain a spread of the virus raging across west Africa
"Nigeria is in a serious mess," the 40-year-old electrical engineer told AFP. "We lack the capacity to deal with the situation."
Residents
of Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa's largest city with more than 20 million
people, returned to work Wednesday after a four-day break to mark the
end of Islam's holy month of Ramadan, a public holiday across the
country, even in the majority Christian south.
It
was the first workday morning in the bustling mega-city since
authorities confirmed that the worst-ever Ebola epidemic -- which has
killed more than 670 people since March in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra
Leone -- had reached Nigerian soil.








