The Federal Government on
Wednesday reversed its decision to
postpone resumption of primary and
secondary schools across the nation
till October 13.
The Minister of Health, Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu, who briefed state
house correspondents after the
Federal Executive Council meeting
presided by President Goodluck
Jonathan on Wednesday, indicated
that schools resumption date might be
moved back to September.
Chukwu’s Education counterpart,
Ibrahim Shekarau, had earlier on
August 26 announced the October 13
resumption date as a precautionary
step against the spread of Ebola virus
But at a briefing following the FEC
meeting on Wednesday, Chukwu said
experts’ opinion had indicated that
“students could safely resume from
mid-September.”
The minister said specific resumption
date would be announced after a
meeting between the Minister of
Education, states’ Commissioners of
Education and other stakeholders
involved in the earlier postponement of
the resumption date to October 13.
“The Minister of Education was
directed by council to convene an
emergency meeting with all states
commissioners of Education in order
to agree on when schools can resume
nationwide,” he said.
At the briefing with the Health minister
were the Ministers of Information,
Labaran Maku; Transport, Umar Idris;
National Planning, Abubakar Suleiman,
and Power (State), Mohammed Wakil.
Chukwu, who also gave a weekly
report to the Council on the Ebola
Virus Disease outbreak, said that there
were currently 296 contacts under
surveillance in the country.
The minister, who refuted insinuations
that 60 Ebola contacts were missing in
Port Harcourt, said of the 296 contacts
actually under surveillance in the entire
country, 255 of them were in Port
Harcourt, Rivers State, and the
remaining 41 in Lagos State.
He explained that investigations had
proved rumoured outbreak of the
disease in Abuja and Calabar to be
negative.
He added that Enugu was completely
free from the disease, saying that the
nurse who initially escaped
surveillance in Lagos to meet her
husband in Enugu had also tested
negative to the disease.
He said the member of ECOWAS staff,
Olu-Ibukun Koye, who jumped
surveillance and took the virus to Port
Harcourt, had developed strong anti-
bodies against the virus and as such
could not infect others with it.
He said it could not yet be determined
if Koye would be prosecuted or not. www.punchng.com/news/schools-may-resume-mid-september-says-minister/

They should just resume and let this kids go back to sch

Better, let them go back to class

It could be a big plus for some people if schools resume on the normal resumption date. I feel for private school teachers whose salaries will not be paid due to the elongated holidays.

y our scientist no fit use d ecowas man anti body make vaccine?

Meanwhile make dem prosecute d man

it better d kids stay at home until dis ebola scare its over

my opinion sha