The United Nations(UN) has commended Nigeria’s exemplary fashion in tackling the 
Ebola virus just as President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned the stigmatisation of Nigerians by some countries over recent cases of the Ebola virus disease in the country.
He expressed his displeasure over the attitude at a meeting with Mr David Navarro, a Special Envoy of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, at State House, Abuja, on Wednesday.
Jonathan particularly denounced discriminatory actions such as that which forced Nigeria’s team to the Youth Olympics in China to abandon its participation.
Noting that there was no justification for such action, the president called for the cessation of discriminatory actions against Nigerians over the virus and urged the UN Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki Moon, to support the call.
Responding to the commendation of Nigeria’s management of the threat of Ebola, the president praised the Federal Ministry of Health, the Lagos State government and all Nigerians for the success achieved so far in containing the virus and avoiding a national epidemic.
“All hands have been on deck to contain the virus here. I commend my team and the Lagos State government. We have been able to set politics aside and work in unison to deal with a national threat,” he said.
The president assured the special envoy that in spite of the seeming success of its containment measures, the Federal Government and its agencies would remain vigilant to guard against further cases of Ebola in the country.
Mr Navarro, who had visited Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the countries worst hit by Ebola, before coming to Nigeria, told the president that he had come on the instruction of the UN Secretary-General to applaud Nigeria’s successful containment of the virus.
“The Secretary-General asked me to come here too, not because you have an Ebola problem, but because you have tackled it in an exemplary fashion,” he said
