The Google Home personal assistant , a voice-activated speaker powered by Google Assistant, arrived in stores in November with some neat tricks for travelers : the ability to suggest nearby restaurants, translate foreign words, convert currency, track flight status and answer fact-based queries such as, “How much does Global Entry cost?” Roughly six months later, it’s doing things it couldn’t before, like tracking flight prices, giving directions and providing same-day updates on traffic to airports. Anyone vaguely familiar with other personal virtual assistants, like Alexa from Amazon or Siri from Apple, knows that this technology is a work in progress. But I was impressed with how far Google Assistant and Google Home have come in a short period, and it’s not difficult to see them becoming a larger part of travelers’ lives in the near future.

 A European Union-funded flight helped UNICEF send supplies and medicines to health facilities in the Likati area. To contain the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) provided technical support to 145 volunteers of the Congolese Red Cross and community health workers.

The Federal Government has formally reported Kenya Airways to the International Civil Aviation Organisation for conveying a corpse from the Ebola-infected Democratic Republic of Congo to Nigeria without the necessary approval. The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday at the end of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

On the 12th of May 2017, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) received formal notification from the World Health Organisation (WHO) of an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)  with three people reported dead.  The Nigerian Medical Association immediately issued a statement directing all Nigerian health workers to maintain a high index of suspicion by screening all fevers for Ebola and other haemorrhagic fevers.