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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The Nigerian Academy of Science says that it is collaborating with the Federal Government in the fight against Ebola in the country. The President of the academy, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, made this known in an interview with the media in Abuja Sunday. He said that members of the academy had been involved in the management
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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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The Federal government has decided that the earlier extension of resumption date for primary and secondary schools to the 13th October be reviewed to the middle of September. Addressing state House correspondents after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu said the decision to review the extension of resumption date
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THE Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, has warned against the use of text messages and social media to create fear, and spread false information on the spread of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. Commending the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government for their emergency response in containing the EVD in Nigeria, the President of the the
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THE Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi weekend said the Corps would set up Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, screening centres in orientation camps across the country to check the spread of the dreaded EVD. He said already, the corps had taken measures to ensure the safety of the corp
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Britons are to be the first in the world to test a new vaccine against the deadly ebola virus. Altogether 60 healthy volunteers will be given the vaccine next month in a trial led by Oxford University scientists. If the vaccine performs as well in humans as in monkeys, the trial will be extended to
Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, parents and other stakeholders have expressed divergent views on the decision by the Federal Government to postpone the resumption date of all primary and secondary schools nationwide till October 13 following the recent outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the country. While some stakeholders believe that the move
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