Ebola: September 22 Resumption Date; No Going Back - FG read 121 time(s)AIT Secondary Schools Pupils In Nigeria In Class The Nigerian government has insisted schools must resume on September 22, 2014. There are however contrary opinions by stakeholders but Minister of health Onyebuchi Chukwu told statehouse correspondents on Wednesday that there is no reason why schools should not resume as the Ebola Virus Disease has been adequately curtailed in Nigeria. Parents, teachers and even the Nigerian Medical Association had kicked against the rescheduled date of September 22 announced by the federal ministry of education. Minister if health Onyebuchi Chukwu says that there is no cause for fear as the new date is tenable in the face of government’s efforts to curb the deadly Ebola Virus Disease. Onyebuchi Chukwu, “I think people should just allow us to do the work the way we have being doing it very professionally. It was based on advise given by the minister of health that the minister of education took the original decision that it was going to be in October and nobody quarreled with the minister. The minister based on expert advice came back and said if they are asking us we don’t have any reason to stop that and now everybody is quarrelling. “If you have any evidence why we need to review supply such evidence through the minister of health. We will look at it.” The Federal Executive Council also approved the establishment of 10 integrated rice-processing mills as well as 6 cassava processing mills at a cost of N13 billion. According to the minister of agriculture Akinwumi Adesina the Bank of Industry is expected to contribute additional equity shares to the project. Akinwumi Adesina, “Council today approved the establishment of 10 integrated rice processing mills, they are medium scale rice mills and 6 high quality cassava flour processing plants to achieve or to drive our policy to become self sufficient in rice and also to drive our policy to reduce our dependency on wheat import that we use in bread and in confectionaries.” The Federal Executive Council also ratified theLagos-Abidjan road, a product of a treaty among five West African while over N600 million has been set aside for upgrade of power supply in Maiduguri, Borno state.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:36:01 +0000
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