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Latest Nigeria headlines, collected from 4 news outlets and updated through the day (Tuesday 27 October 2026). Every headline links to the original publisher.

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• Nigeria Ebola patient flown to Switzerland, Congo health worker killed as 4 countries deal with outbreakCBC World · 14 h ago

  Officials on opposite sides of the African continent are trying to determine how a woman diagnosed with Ebola in Nigeria's capital last week contracted the deadly virus without having visited the Democratic Republic of C

• Nigeria evacuates Ebola patient to Switzerland, tracks 53 contactsAfricanews · 18 h ago

  The only confirmed case in Nigeria of Africa's latest deadly Ebola outbreak was evacuated Monday by air from Abuja, the capital, to Switzerland, where she has citizenship. Nigeria has stepped up contact-tracing and scree

• Nigeria: 50 killed in bandit attack on Taraba villageAfricanews · 20 h ago

  The death toll from an attack by gunmen on a rural village in eastern Nigeria on Friday has risen to 50, survivors told AFP on Sunday, after more bodies were discovered.

• Death toll in Nigeria village raided by gunmen rises to 48, police sayBBC Africa · 1 d ago

  Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles swooped on a remote village on Friday, looting shops and setting houses ablaze.

• Mystery over source of Ebola infection in Nigeria fuels concern about spread of virusThe Guardian · 3 d ago

  Switzerland says patient is wife of Swiss diplomat and believed to have contracted virus while travelling in Uganda Health officials across Africa are racing to determine how Nigeria’s first Ebola patient ⁠in more than a

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