THE Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, yesterday, made a U-turn as president of the group, Dr. Kayode Obembe, told lawmakers and other stakeholders that the resumption date of September 22 for schools as scheduled by Federal Government was okay. The NMA had previously argued that schools should not be re-opened until all those under surveillance for
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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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Controversy generated by case of an Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, female student, who was rumoured to have contracted Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) was, on Thursday, finally laid to rest, as the vice chancellor of the institution, Professor Bamitale Omole, disclosed that confirmatory test proved she was negative. Addressing a press conference, on Thurday in
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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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New monkey studies show that one shot of an experimental Ebola vaccine can trigger fast protection, but the effect waned unless the animals got a booster shot made a different way. Some healthy people are rolling up their sleeves at the National Institutes of Health for the first human safety study of this vaccine in
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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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