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Police and fans clashed during Zambia’s 1-1 draw with DR Congo after Ebola screening delayed entry to the ground in Ebebiyin. There were also clashes during Ivory Coast’s draw with Guinea and Mali’s tie against Cameroon on Tuesday in Malabo. Despite the wait to enter stadiums, Equatorial Guinea Football Federation president Andres Jorge Mbombio claims […]
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Following protests and criticism from several individuals, organizations and teachers over the scheduled resumption for schools across the country in the face of Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan has given a useful explanation on the matter. Speaking on Thursday in Abuja, at the meeting of the National Executive Committee of
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Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Tuesday , directed it members to ignore the 22nd of September, 2014, resumption of primary and secondary schools in Nigeria. National President of NUT, Comrade Micheal Olukoya, gave the directive while briefing journalists in Abuja. He said the teachers should only resume if the Federal Government sufficiently trained and provide
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The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. AbduGaniyu Ambali, says all students will be screened for the Ebola Virus Disease before entering the campus. Ambali stated this on Monday while unveiling preventive kits worth N1.2 million at the university’s health centre. “The procurement of the anti-Ebola kits is part of the university’s preparedness to
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The World Health Organisation, WHO, and Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State have warned the Federal Government on its decision that primary and secondary schools across the country should resume academic activities on 22 September, 2014. Speaking during a courtesy visit to Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, at the State House in Alausa on Thursday, 11 September, 2014, WHO Country Representative
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Nigerian teachers have threatened to go on strike over the government’s plans to re-open schools across the country on September 22 amid claims that the authorities are yet to put in place measures to protect its members and pupils from the Ebola virus disease (EVD). Last month, education minister Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, instructed all public
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The Nigerian ministry of Health has announced that the country currently has no active case of the deadly Ebola virus. In a post by spokesman for the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh, he revealed that the nation has recorded 12 cured and 7 dead from the virus brought into the country by Liberian Patrick Sawyer. He
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House of Representatives has asked its Committee on Education to take another look at the issue of resumption date for private and public primary/secondary schools in the country. The directive was necessitated by growing concern among the public, especially parents and guardians of the students, following the recent decision by federal education authorities to re-open
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Academic and social activities at Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, were yesterday paralysed following a report that one of the students, who had been on admission at the university’s teaching hospital, manifested signs of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. The management of the institution, however, said the student had been evacuated to Lagos, where she would
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Authorities of the West African Examinations Council on Saturday subjected candidates sitting the ongoing ‘November/December’ West African Senior School Certificate Examination to Ebola Virus Disease screening. The Head of National Office of WAEC, Mr. Charles Eguridu, who led a team of officials around some examination centres in Lagos, said the essence of the test was
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