Many states across the South-west region are putting in place new strategies
to contain any outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in order to meet
Monday’s resumption date announced by the federal government. In Oyo State, the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Solomon
Olaniyonu, said government and relevant stakeholders had put in place
mechanisms to ensure that schools resume on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) reports that in Ibadan, the sensitisation on the disease had been ongoing
among the stakeholders. Oyo State schools will resume on September 22 as promised
because enough sensitisation campaigns have been ongoing on the disease. We
have been meeting with all stakeholders including principals, teachers and
students, Olaniyonu said. He also said his ministry met with the Board of
Technical and Vocation Education and the All Nigerian Confederation of
Secondary Schools Principals(ANCOPS). The ministry, he added, had deployed top
government officials to rural areas to sensitise residents on the disease
before the resumption of schools. If not for the fact that there is no proper
demarcation of boundaries, there would have been no fear of Ebola virus in this
state, he said. He said the Federal Ministry of Education had requested for the
number of schools so that the federal government could help out with the facilities
needed to fight against the Ebola virus.
Thisday Newspaper
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