n 2014, Nigeria stared death in the face. A Liberian-American traveller, Patrick Sawyer, arrived Nigeria must therefore treat this outbreak not as a foreign problem but as a direct national se- Lagos through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport carrying what would become one curity threat. I of the world’s deadliest public health threats-Ebola Virus Disease. Within days, panic spread The Federal Government, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, the across Africa’s most populous nation. Airports became theatres of fear. Hospitals trembled. Rumours Federal Ministry o…