World Bank President Jim Yong Kim Thursday said that the Ebola crisis in West Africa has already infected more than 8,033 people and claimed more than 3,879 lives, and the epidemic continues to spread rapidly. In his opening remarks at the High-Level Meeting on the Impact of the Ebola Crisis: A Perspective from the Countries
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Stunned by the entrance of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, into America, the United States’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention has dispatched its personnel to study how Nigeria contained the killer disease. The US reported on Tuesday that it has discovered a case of EVD in Dallas, Texas, but its health officials said “the
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President Goodluck Jonathan has declared to the United Nations that Nigeria is now free of Ebola. Jonathan gave this assurance at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, while commenting on the outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus disease (EVD) in West Africa. He however called on the global community to act collectively in
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The World Health Organisation on Monday declared that the Ebola Virus Disease had been “pretty much contained” in Nigeria and Senegal. A statement by the organisation’s regional office for Africa said there had been no new confirmed cases in the two countries since the first case was identified in Senegal on August 29 and Nigeria’s
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As both primary and secondary schools nationwide are expected to resume today in compliance with the directive by the Federal Government, parents and teachers have, however, been thrown into confusion following counter-directives by some state governments which have fixed different dates for schools to resume. The Nigeria Union of Teachers, on its part had earlier
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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Lagos and other South West states besides Osun, have directed the resumption of primary and secondary schools on Monday as directed by the Federal Government, with a stern warning from Lagos State government that it will sanction schools that default in implementing the basic preventive measures Ebola Virus Disease EVD, as directed by the Minister
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The Senate yesterday advised both private and government schools to put in place precautionary measures to curtail the spread of Ebola as schools resume next week. It also concurred that enough efforts had been made for resumption of schools. The Senate equally urged the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, and the African Union,
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As the new resumption date by the Federal Government for the nation’s public and private schools continues to generate controversy, the National Association Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPS, in Bauchi State has thrown its weight behind the new resumption date, saying schools should adopt preventive measures against the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, instead keeping students
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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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