Abuja, Dhu-AlQa'dah 3, 1435, Aug 29, 2014, SPA -- Nigeria on Thursday confirmed that two more cases of Ebola have been recorded in a state within the southern region of the country, summing up the total number of patients currently under treatment to three. Nigeria's Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu said the fresh carriers of the disease were found in Port Harcourt, capital of oil-rich Rivers State, bringing the total number of cases ever recorded in Nigeria to 15. He told reporters in the Nigerian capital Abuja that government would do its best to contain the disease, noting this is the first time an Ebola case would be confirmed outside Lagos since Patrick Sawwyer introduced the virus to Nigeria last month, Xinhua reported. --SPA 13:31 LOCAL TIME 10:31 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w