The nation’s minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu had a cheering news today, declaring that Ebola Disease has siezed to exist in any part of the country in the last one week, even as the information minister deplored the wrong signal the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has sent out on the disease.
Addressing newsmen today shortly after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Professor Chukwu said that there has been no fresh case of Ebola, even as the number of those on observation has reduced.
He said that as at today, there were only
366 people under surveillance in just two states – 4 in Lagos state and the rest in Rivers state.
The minister said that so far, 517 people that have been on observation have been discharged from surveillance centres and are back to their families.
Meanwhile, the information minister, Labaran Maku has expressed the federal government’s displeasure over the stand of the NUT leadership on the issue of resumption of public school on September 22.
He said that the NUT rejection of the resumption date on account that Ebola disease has not been cleared is in bad taste, adding that it is sending wrong signal to the outsiders that Nigeria is still laden with the disease.
The NUT leadership’s attempt to create an industrial dispute over nothing “is senseless” and asked the teachers to resume work on September 22 as the schools would be opened for lessons.
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