This government is becoming so much Insensitive. So GEJ rally is more important than the populace lives. Only the bandaged mind would attend these rallies.

Federal education authorities have ordered all schools to stay closed in response to President Goodluck Jonathan’s directive on gatherings over Ebola fears, but the president appears set to violate his own rule yet again by expanding his re-election rallies amidst outrage following two previous campaigns in Awka and Ibadan. The Federal Ministry of Education on Tuesday directed that all public and private primary and secondary schools should remain closed till October 13, about a month extension of normal school resumption date. [b]“All primary and secondary schools both public and private are to remain closed until Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, which is the new resumption date for all schools throughout the federation,” [/b]the Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, announced after a meeting in Abuja, with Commissioners for Education from all the 36 states. “This is to ensure that adequate measures are put in place before the students report back to school,” Mr. Shekarau said. Mr. Shekarau said the meeting also agreed that all Ministries of Education should immediately organise health training for at least two staff in each public and private school. The schools must ensure the trainings are provided by appropriate health personnel on how to handle any suspected case of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, he said. The trainings must be concluded not later than September 15. The minister also directed all the state ministries to establish a Working and Monitoring Team and also appoint a designated Desk Officer on Ebola. The officers must report on daily basis to the commissioners on situation in the schools not later than Sept. 1. In further measures to curb a deadly virus that has killed five in Nigeria since July, Mr. Shekarau also ordered the immediate suspension of ongoing summer classes conducted by some private schools. Mr. Shekarau also advised all tertiary institutions to suspend exchange of staff and students’ programmes, visits, and major international seminars and workshops until further notice. “They are to monitor movements of foreign students in their campuses and liaise with appropriate government health institutions to organise and ensure effective sensitisation programme for all their staff,” he said. But while the directive holds, the Transformation Ambassador of Nigeria [TAN], a group campaigning for the re-election of President Jonathan in the 2015 election, has announced four more political rallies for the president. The rallies are scheduled to hold from Saturday, August 30, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for the South-South region; while another will hold in Minna, Niger State September 13, for the North-Central Region; and in Gombe three days later for the North East. The final rally will hold in Kano, September 27, for the North West. By September 27, TAN would have completed its final regional rally at least two weeks before schools reopen for learning. There were no indications as of Wednesday that the organizers of the rallies, which draw tens of thousands of Nigerians together amid an outbreak transmitted through body contact, intend to shelve further gatherings after earlier ones sparked outrage. The government too has not indicated it plans to halt the campaigns. Lagos lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, accused the government of lacking the moral and legal grounds to stage the events. “It is hoped that the organisers of the rallies will stop them on legal and moral grounds,” Mr. Falana said after the first two rallies. TAN kicked off its series of zonal rallies in Awka, the Anambra state capital, on August 16, just a week after Mr. Jonathan said such gatherings be suspended across the country. The Awka meeting, covering the South East, held just two days after news broke that a nurse under observation for the Ebola virus had fled Lagos to Enugu, about 78 kilometres from Awka. A week later, on August 23, the South-West version of the TAN rally was staged at the Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, about 136 kilometres from Lagos, where health officials battled to trace primary and secondary contacts of Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American, who brought the Ebola Virus to Nigeria. While the government allowed TAN to continue its rallies, it made attempt to stop the Nigerian Bar Association [NBA] from proceeding with its annual general conference scheduled to begin on August 24 in Owerri, the Imo state capital. President Jonathan wouldn’t halt the rallies despite personally warning against such large gatherings as part of measures for checking the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria. “Religious and political groups, spiritual healing centres, families, associations and other bodies should, in the meantime, discourage gatherings and activities that may unwittingly promote close contact with infected persons or place others at risk,” Mr. Jonathan said on August 8 while declaring the control and containment of the Ebola virus in Nigeria a national emergency. The president’s directive came on the heels of a similar one by the Lagos State Government, which has been working hard to stop the deadly virus from spreading in the country. The state Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, had while briefing journalists on August 6 advised churches, mosques and other religious organisations to suspend all activities that involve large gatherings of people until the Ebola outbreak is brought under control. The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, also said at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Meeting on Wednesday, August 20, that the Osun Osogbo festival as well as other major events in the country should be put on hold to curtail the spread of the virus. -

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/167344-ebola-jonathans-re-election-rallies-to-continue-while-government-orders-schools-to-stay-closed.html#sthash.YvXCjxSK.dpuf

Seriously this postponement of resumption date was uncalled for

Haters will continue to amaze me. Adult can take care of themselves. But kids do not have control.
Op must u criticise every efforts of the government blindly.
I leave you to your conscience.

henrysam: Haters will continue to amaze me. Adult can take care of themselves. But kids do not have control.
Op must u criticise every efforts of the government blindly.
I leave you to your conscience.

Well, have you been to a political rally before?

GEJ govt is anti-education.

Its a well coordinated evil retrogressive policy to continue from where they stopped with ASUU & ASUP, which the TAN herds of useful idióts do not mind as much as they get their 10K stipends.

so what are you saying nw @ op. total BS. you dey find traffick ba? i hope that name GEJ doesnt drive people crazy before the end of the year. why didnt you headline it as '...... while churches and mosques continue to hold services........' or 'while markets remain open....'. BS.

olrotimi: so what are you saying nw @ op. total BS. you dey find traffick ba? hope that name GEJ doesnt drive people crazy before the end of the year. why didnt you headline it as '...... while churches and continue to hold mosques services........' or 'while markets remain open....'. BS.

You are dumber than I thought. Do I own premiumtimes? And what's with the gibberish you posted. knucklehead!

Let me lecture u on d art of pullinghimdown (PhD). You should look for something that is genuine, reasonable and sensible to attack the victim and not something that will make pple wonder if your head hit the floor very hard while you were growing up (just like the insensible you posted). When you post such nonsense, you will only succeed in pulling yourself down (just like you have done), while your supposed victim wins more votes (just like he has won mine).

tonytony208: Let me lecture u on d art of pullinghimdown (PhD). You should look for something that is genuine, reasonable and sensible to attack the victim and not something that will make pple wonder if your head hit the floor very hard while you were growing up (just like the insensible you posted). When you post such nonsense, you will only succeed in pulling yourself down (just like you have done), while your supposed victim wins more votes (just like he has won mine).

Of course your deteriorated mind won't see anything wrong in a government that suggested putting to hold of congregations and events so as to curtail the virus holding rallies up and and down.

henrysam: Haters will continue to amaze me. Adult can take care of themselves. But kids do not have control.
Op must u criticise every efforts of the government blindly.
I leave you to your conscience.

How many children have been infected with the dreaded Ebola virus? Tell me how adults would protect themselves in a rally where body contacts cannot be avoided

curiouses:
Of course your deteriorated mind won't see anything wrong in a government that suggested putting to hold of congregations and events so as to curtail the virus holding rallies up and and down.

believe me, it is your mind that is deteriorated. That's why you feel the only proper way to make a living is to oppose everything the government does; either you sound sensible or you sound like a nitwit while doing such.

If your mind is not derailed and deteriorated, you would have known that adults (at rallies) can control themselves and you won't even be able to come for rally if you are down with ebola. And you can't transfer ebola except you are very sick from it. However, kids are helpless. They can easily transfer it among themselves. It is painful i have to explain to you like you are in the kindergarten rung of mental
-reasoning ladder. It is now am convinced that even common sense is not common.
And what should even concern your disoriented mind about a pdp rally? Are they asking you to attend? Is it not pdp money they are spending or are they collecting money from you?

tonytony208:

believe me, it is your mind that is deteriorated. That's why you feel the only proper way to make a living is to oppose everything the government does; either you sound sensible or you sound like a nitwit while doing such.

If your mind is not derailed and deteriorated, you would have known that adults (at rallies) can control themselves and you won't even be able to come for rally if you are down with ebola. And you can't transfer ebola except you are very sick from it. However, kids are helpless. They can easily transfer it among themselves. It is painful i have to explain to you like you are in the kindergarten rung of mental
-reasoning ladder. It is now am convinced that even common sense is not common.
And what should even concern your disoriented mind about a pdp rally? Are they asking you to attend? Is it not pdp money they are spending or are they collecting money from you?

Were you born like this or you acquired senility genes overnight? Common sense dictates that whatever suggests to your GEJ that Osun Oshogbo festival be put on hold suggests same for his rallies. You sounded dumber than I imagined you to be by saying adult can control themselves from contracting the virus, in fact you need help than majority of sycophants defending every action of this clueless Government. Grow up knucklehead, sawyer was not down with the virus when he jetted it to Nigeria. Put politics aside for once in your your life and think like a human.

curiouses:
Were you born like this or you acquired senility genes overnight? Common sense dictates that whatever suggests to your GEJ that Osun Oshogbo be put on hold suggest same for his rallies. You sounded dumber than I imagined you to be by saying adult can control themselves from contracting the virus, in fact you need help to than majority of sycophants defending every action of this clueless Government. Grow up knucklehead, sawyer was not down with the virus when he jetted it to Nigeria. Put politics aside for once in your and think like a human.

take it easy on this dude bro

tonytony208:

believe me, it is your mind that is deteriorated. That's why you feel the only proper way to make a living is to oppose everything the government does; either you sound sensible or you sound like a nitwit while doing such.

If your mind is not derailed and deteriorated, you would have known that adults (at rallies) can control themselves and you won't even be able to come for rally if you are down with ebola. And you can't transfer ebola except you are very sick from it. However, kids are helpless. They can easily transfer it among themselves. It is painful i have to explain to you like you are in the kindergarten rung of mental
-reasoning ladder. It is now am convinced that even common sense is not common.
And what should even concern your disoriented mind about a pdp rally? Are they asking you to attend? Is it not pdp money they are spending or are they collecting money from you?

Reread it what wrote down and see how foolish you sound?

henrysam: Haters will continue to amaze me. Adult can take care of themselves. But kids do not have control.
Op must u criticise every efforts of the government blindly.
I leave you to your conscience.

seriously? you and those that liked your comment must be dumber than i thought.

There is nothing wrong in closing down schools till the 13th of Octobor, but other public gatherings should also be stopped.

Ebola no dey catch politicians

sodiqyinka: take it easy on this dude bro

The guy na idiota..

henrysam: Haters will continue to amaze me. Adult can take care of themselves. But kids do not have control.
Op must u criticise every efforts of the government blindly.
I leave you to your conscience.

The poster of this post deserves Nigeria Dumbest Award of the year. Are you referring to adults that always shake hands? Have you ever left your rabbit hole to attend a political rally or watched the last gathering of unemployed Nigeria graduates? Did you see how tightly they were packed together? Did you even try to educate yourself on this disease? I doubt it.

I support the postponement of school resumption.

However, a government that is serious about curbing the spread of the deadly ebola scourge should have also placed an embargo on avoidable public gatherings till October or November at least.

Anyway, I do not blame the rally organisers. It is the people who troop out to such rallies that should have their heads examined.

1United1:

Reread it what wrote down and see how foolish you sound?

thank u for confirming that ur mind and brain are deteriorated, disoriented and demented. If nitwits like u are d ones apc is depending on as e-warriors for election victory, then apc have failed.
1. All you do is post stuffs that even a stark illiterate will identify as nonsense.
2. You can't even defend the things you post against gej intelligibly.

Believe me apc are wasting their money on you.

OP is a fool I swear!
Tell me how trying to curb EBOLA virus by closing the schools is being insensitive?

You might argue that there are crowds at rallies too, but u need to wonder why tertiary institution were not shut:

The reason is, as an adult, u shld be able to follow the laid-down rules meant to help u prevent the spread of the virus. Same why the rallies won't be stopped. You are not coerced to come.

The schools remain shut untill October 13th...
That's one of the best thing this govt has thought of...

tonytony208:

thank u for confirming that ur mind and brain are deteriorated, disoriented and demented. If nitwits like u are d ones apc is depending on as e-warriors for election victory, then apc have failed.
1. All you do is post stuffs that even a stark illiterate will identify as nonsense.
2. You can't even defend the things you post against gej intelligibly.

Believe me apc are wasting their money on you.

Blah! Blah!! Blah! Like a disoriented dumb head! Abeg shift!

The same people that are sympathetic to Bokoharam are here again.

The Federal Government ordered the closure of Schools in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno State citing its inability to provide adequate security for the time being but alas Gov. Shettima (Mr I-too-know) went and collaborated with Bokoharam to give them their heavenly virgins (gift) here on earth by ordering the opening of a school on recess for exams the examiners weren't disposed to conduct.

The same Gov. Shettima's line of thought is brewing in this thread.

1United1:

Blah! Blah!! Blah! Like a disoriented dumb head! Abeg shift!

another confirmation of ur mental dereliction. No intelligible comments. Always posting junk. To think apc plans to win with halfwits like u in their service!

Ngwakwe: The same people that are sympathetic to Bokoharam are here again.

The Federal Government ordered the closure of Schools in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno State citing its inability to provide adequate security for the time being but alas Gov. Shettima (Mr I-too-know) went and collaborated with Bokoharam to give them their heavenly virgins (gift) here on earth by ordering the opening of a school on recess for exams the examiners weren't disposed to conduct.

The same Gov. Shettima's line of thought is brewing in this thread.

Have you seen this thread https://www.nairaland.com/1876990/breaking-news-two-cases-ebola ?

If you have, and still think that holding rallies at this point in time is okay then you give me no reasons to respect your opinions any further. If you haven't, please do and tell me what you think about PDP's rallies.

Jobless touts everywhere..no thanks to Internet..

curiouses:

Have you seen this thread https://www.nairaland.com/1876990/breaking-news-two-cases-ebola ?

If you have, and still think that holding rallies at this point in time is okay then you give me no reasons to respect your opinions any further. If you haven't, please do and tell me what you think about PDP's rallies.

What has singling out TAN (which by law has nothing to do with PDP) got to do with this thread?

It is obvious that the Op has issues with those supporting GEJ and the crowd following rather than the welfare of Nigerians by politicising the extension of holidays for school children.

Why not use religious gatherings for instance or markets?

SLIDEwaxie: OP is a fool I swear!
Tell me how trying to curb EBOLA virus by closing the schools is being insensitive?

You might argue that there are crowds at rallies too, but u need to wonder why tertiary institution were not shut:

The reason is, as an adult, u shld be able to follow the laid-down rules meant to help u prevent the spread of the virus. Same why the rallies won't be stopped. You are not coerced to come.

The schools remain shut untill October 13th...
That's one of the best thing this govt has thought of...

But the same government refused Adult Corp members September Camping, citing Ebola pandemic as reason. Can you reconcile that?

curiouses:
Were you born like this or you acquired senility genes overnight? Common sense dictates that whatever suggests to your GEJ that Osun Oshogbo festival be put on hold suggests same for his rallies. You sounded dumber than I imagined you to be by saying adult can control themselves from contracting the virus, in fact you need help than majority of sycophants defending every action of this clueless Government. Grow up knucklehead, sawyer was not down with the virus when he jetted it to Nigeria. Put politics aside for once in your your life and think like a human.

it is you who is the confirmed dumb soul here. I suspect you sat on your brain and fart on it, hence these decayed and stinking mental emanations from you.

Is it that you are irreparably daft or that derelict apc gene in you has proliferated, resulting in cancerous metastasis, rendering you a hopeless lier, i mean the same metastasis diagnosed in lier Muhammad (lier by name and deed)? Is it that you didn't read well or you, being a mental-halfbake yourself, only rely on your drunken ilks at those derelict drinking joints for information?

1. Osun/ osogbo festival was not postponed. THEY ONLY WARNED THAT STRANGERS SHOULD NOT COME! So where did you get that nonsense you wrote?

2. Patrick Sawyer was visibly sick before coming to nigeria. In fact, he was so sick to the extent that he was lying on the floor at monrovia airport, holding his stomach, before his flight to nigeria was announced. Airport authorities at monrovia tried to rush him to the hospital, but he refused. He forced himself to come to nigeria because he had an evil mission to accomplish. You can only transfer ebola to others if you already sick from it. And you can't be truly sick from ebola and be able to attend a rally; except if you are shooting second season of Patrick Sawyer's "Evil Mission". and you don't necessarily need to attend a rally to shoot the movie. Just enter a church, mosque, market or a crowded bus in lagos and you are sure of infesting hundreds of pple, who will in turn infect thousands. Ebola symptoms are not things you can hide. You will be recognized a mile away.

Your brain needs to be flushed from accumulated fart. Next, read well b4 you comment; nairaland is not filled with uninformed and halfbaked dumbasses like those eediots that liked your comment. Next, stop relying on drinking joints for current information. Next, don't always follow the steps of lier Muhammad; his lie-metastasis is irreversible, lest your case gets worse than his.