President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will join other leaders of
the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Accra tomorrow for an
Emergency Summit on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) which continues to ravage
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
The emergency summit which will also be attended by
representatives of the United Nations and the World Health Organisation will
seek greater international support and collaboration for the containment of the
Ebola outbreak.
President Jonathan who will be accompanied to the summit by
the acting Minister of Health, Dr. Khaliru Alhassan and the Director of the
Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Abdulsalami Nasidi, is expected to
avail the gathering of the benefit of Nigeria’s successful containment of the
deadly EVD after it entered the country in July this year through a traveller
from Liberia.
The President will return to Abuja at the conclusion of the
one-day summit.
Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
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