Lagos-The head of the main teachers
union called on Tuesday for a boycott
of next week's re-opening of schools,
saying there had not been enough
training to protect against the Ebola
virus. Michael Olukoya, president of the
Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), said
members should boycott next
Monday's planned re-opening
because they have not received
training and supplies like hand gloves and sanitisers promised by the
government. "The schools are still the same as
before the outbreak," Olukoya said.
"Teachers should be trained. They
should be provided with the
thermometers, gloves and hand
sanitisers." President Goodluck Jonathan
responded by saying he would
"plead" with the NUT to not go ahead
with the industrial action. Also Read: Teachers boycott meeting over resumption date "Why do we want to create problems
while it is not necessary? It is uncalled
for," he told reporters. The president asserted that "we have
managed Ebola very well" in Nigeria
and that closing its schools was giving
the wrong signal to the world. Education minister Ibrahim Shekarau
said earlier this month that schools
would resume on September 22 after
their re-opening was delayed due to
the outbreak of the Ebola virus in
Nigeria. The re-opening was initially delayed
from September 15 to October 13 due
to the outbreak, but the date was later
moved forward to September 22. Eight people have died and over 20
have been infected by Ebola in Nigeria.
The outbreak started in the
commercial capital Lagos in July, after
an infected Liberian official flew into
the city, and spread to Port Harcourt, the hub of the nation's oil industry. The current outbreak has killed 2,461
people, mostly in three West African
nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra
Leone, and the United Nations fears
20,000 people could be infected by
the end of the year.
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Every union una fight the government.

I think if this Ebola disease is real, I'd rather we let the last of those in isolation centre leave before schools resume! If it spreads to schools, then we'll surely be overwhelmed.

am tired of this ebola issue

btw 22 and 13 oct is only two weeks, are d NUT telling us that ebola would ve been eradicated by then or what they are asking for would ve been done

much ado about nothing

lazy ppl looking for attention

let's see who is more powerful- they or d govt