[Gen.Blather]

“Plus I believe that Nigeria is stonewalling on their reporting. “

There’s probably good reason for this. Nigeria needs food, medicine and other supplies and if ships stopped delivering it they’d have a different problem.

Having said this it would be a good idea to limit all travel to Africa to essential, official contacts only. Ships offloading should be isolated from indigenous contacts. But, that won’t happen until it’s too late.

[Smokin' Joe]

I am sure there is significant pressure to present the image of a nation free of the disease. It was speculated early on that reporting might be suppressed (not saying it is, but might be) in order to avoid short term economic impacts in hopes the disease could be contained.

That has potential to cause much more severe impact later.

Hard to say if Nigeria isn't catching some pressure to keep oil revenue flowing, too.

Expats who provide technical expertise and support (from the US and elsewhere) might not be so anxious to work for a paycheck they may not live to cash.

Many fly in and out of Lagos.