By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate

Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The Federal Government on Thursday announced that the Dangote Group owned by business mogul Aliko Dangote had donated $150 million to fight the spread of the Ebola virus.

This is coming on the heels of the confirmation of 11 cases of affected persons on Thursday by Onyebuchi Chukwu, Health Minister.  Three people have died of the disease in Nigeria, which has killed 1,066 people in neighbouring countries.

Reports say about 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 Organisation 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.