Kaduna State Government on Tuesday said it has released N116m for the purchase of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, detecting equipment in public schools. Ibrahim Ali, Commissioner for Education in the state, said this at the flag-off of training for 13,000 teachers on prevention of EVD ahead of the September 22 resumption date for primary and post primary…
Ebola: Doctors Reject September 22 Schools’ Resumption Date
The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has rejected the directive given by the Federal Government that all primary and secondary schools resume on Monday September 22, 2014. Speaking through Olawunmi Layaki, NMA National Publicity Secretary, the association said they expect all schools to remain closed until December or early next year when all Ebola suspects under…
Liberia Faces huge Ebola surge – WHO
Ebola is spreading exponentially in Liberia, with thousands of new cases expected in the next three weeks, the World Health Organization, WHO, says. Conventional methods to control the outbreak were “not having an adequate impact”, the UN’s health agency added. At least 2,100 people have died of the virus in the West African states of…
Ebola: AU Opens Emergency Meeting
The African Union, AU executive council emergency meeting over Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, was opened on Monday at the AU headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, to consolidate collective continental efforts against the deadly disease. The meeting is expected to adopt a common position and define appropriate strategies to enable Africa to effectively combat the…
Let’s Unite to Fight Ebola
By John Dania – Internet Constituency. Ebola first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks, in Nzara, Sudan, and in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter was in a village situated near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name. Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the…
Ebola: Schools to Resume September 22
The Federal Government has fixed Monday, September 22, 2014 as new resumption date for primary and secondary schools across the country. On Tuesday August 12, the government approved the indefinite postponement of resumption date of private and public schools to October 13, 2014 as parts of measures to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus…
US urge Nigeria to Help Other West African Countries tackle Ebola Outbreak
The United States government has implored Nigerian Government to send assistance to the three other countries in the West African sub-region that are affected by the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak. The Secretary of State on African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who stated this in an interview with journalists on Thursday during a courtesy visit to the…
Ebola: Another Patient Dies In Port Harcourt
Onyebuchi Chukwu, the minister of health, has confirmed the death of another patient due to the Ebola Virus Disease in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Thursday. The deceased, who is an elderly woman, was said to have shared the same room with the late Iyke Enemuo, a medical doctor, who treated Koye Olu-Ibukun, Nigerian ECOWAS…
Lagos Government Warns Against Fake Ebola Test Kit
The Lagos State Government, LASG, on Wednesday warned Lagos residents and other citizens in the country not to fall victims of suspected fraudsters who peddle a fake Ebola test kit. The government, in a statement issued by Hakeem Bello, Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, explained that the product, which was called Rapid Response…
Ebola: NHRC To Prosecute Anyone Flouting Schools Resumption Date
Ben Angwe, Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has said that the Commission would ensure that appropriate punishment is imposed on persons, particularly private school proprietors who defy the Federal government’s directive that schools remain shut till October 13. The directive came on the heels of fears over the need to curtain…
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