The Federal Government is said to be charging N200,000 to train school teachers on the Ebola Virus Disease.

The government has also postponed a workshop on EVD earlier designed to train teachers of Federal Government-owned secondary schools before the September 22, 2014 schools resumption date.

Investigations by our correspondent revealed that the director in charge of Basic and Secondary Education in the Federal Ministry of Education, was said to have instructed all principals of secondary schools to send N200,000 to the Federal Government’s Ebola Response Team as charges for the training of two teachers from each of the schools.

The dates for the training on Ebola is between September 18 and September 20, 2014, two days to the Federal Government’s approved school resumption date of September 22, 2014, and the venues are the Federal Government College, Benin for schools in the South and the Federal Government College, Minna for schools in the North.

Apart from the training fee of N200,000, the schools were also expected to provide two hand-held thermometers, two protective kits, two medical reflective jackets, two facemasks and kits, one drum of wall liquid soap/soap solution dispenser, 10 litres of izal, and 10 litres of Dettol. Other items expected to be provided by the principals of the unity schools include 10 litres of methylated spirit, 10 litres of hands sanitisers, a drum of bleach solution and 300 packs of disposable hand gloves.

The principals were directed to liaise with the various states Ministries of Health to ensure the purchase of the listed items considered vital to the reopening of the schools in view of the spreading fear over the EVD.

However, there are fears that the principals might not be able to provide the N200,000 training fee demanded by the Federal Ministry of Education as some of them claimed they had not got budgetary releases since July, 2014.

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