Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) has stated that members of the union would only resume work on the federal government’s stipulated date of Monday, September 22 if teachers are trained properly on preventive measures against the Ebola virus, saying it preferred the initial Monday, October 13, 2014 date proposed by the government so as to be sure that the virus posed no threat in schools.
The information was relayed by the president of NUT, Alogba Olukoya while talking to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, September 16, 2014.
He said if the Monday, September 22, 2014 date was to hold, he would instruct teachers to resume only when they had received sufficient training on Ebola prevention and provided with the right safety gadget.
Olukoya further explained that in states where adequate training had not been done, teachers would remain at home until their state governments have pprovided adequate training and gadgets or the union directs otherwise.
He also urged the federal government through the federal ministry of health to use the vacation period to mount intensive training programs to equip Nigerian teachers to tackle the Ebola virus.
