{"id":1016,"date":"2014-08-29T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T22:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2014-08-29T22:48:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T22:48:26","slug":"un-commends-nigerias-examplary-fashion-in-tackling-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"UN commends Nigeria’s examplary fashion in tackling Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Nations(UN) has commended Nigeria’s exemplary fashion in tackling the \"United<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Jonathan particularly denounced discriminatory actions such as that which forced Nigeria\u2019s team to the Youth Olympics in China to abandon its participation.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Responding to the commendation of Nigeria\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s successful containment of the virus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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