If confirmed, it would be the first recorded case of the dreaded disease in Nigeria.
The patient is also said to be responding to treatment, contrary to news on social media that he is dead.
The state government has called on residents not to press panic buttons, but take appropriate measures to prevent and control an outbreak of the disease in the state.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Health, Dr Yewande Adeshina, who briefed the media over the development, explained that an outbreak of the disease, which was caused by the Ebola virus, had been recorded in some neighbouring West African countries like Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
According to her, "You will recall that three months ago, your attention was drawn to the outbreak of a deadly disease known as Ebola Virus Disease in some of the neighbouring West African countries.
"Current update from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone shows alarming increase in the number of cases and deaths due to this disease."
Speaking on the Liberian's case, the governor's aide disclosed that the Lagos State Ministry of Health received information from a private facility in the state concerning a suspected case on July 22, 2014.
According to her, details of the suspected case were obtained from the health facility and the suspect, a 40-year-old Liberian working for a West African organisation in Monrovia, who arrived in Lagos on a flight from Monrovia via Lome on July 20, 2014 at 4p.m, had no contact with any case of EVD.
"History taken revealed that he had no contact with any case of EVD, did not visit any person with EVD in the hospital and neither did he partake in the burial of any person who died of EVD.
"However, on account of his working and living in an endemic region for EVD like Liberia and the presentation of non-specific constitutional symptoms and signs of fever, malaise, body aches, vomiting, diarrhea, etc associated with EVD, a high index of suspicion was raised."
The special adviser added that based on the high index of suspicion raised, the patient was admitted and detained on suspicion for possible Ebola virus disease infection, stressing that blood sample collection and testing was initiated, which included samples to the Virology Reference Laboratory, LUTH, Idi-Araba and WHO Reference Laboratory in Dakar, Senegal.
On the condition of the patient, Adeshina disclosed that "presently, the patient's condition is stable and is in recovery.
"The diarrhea and vomiting has stopped.
"Intravenous infusion has also been stopped and he is now tolerating by mouth, while the health facility has since initiated Universal Safety Precautionary measures to prevent spread of the disease and guaranteed the safety of other patients."
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