The comment is an apparent swipe at Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, who both face elections in coming weeks.

Brian Stack was crossing a street in Dublin in 1983 when he was shot in the back of the neck and died 18 months later.

The female patient, who sources have told the BBC is not Nigerian, is in isolation and in an Abuja hospital.

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