As Nigeria awaits the official certification as an Ebola-free country by the World Health Organisation (WHO) after it successfully contained the outbreak of the deadly viral disease, fears are rife that some visible lapses in the preventive efforts could reverse the gains made in this regards.

This is the outcome of investigations carried out by Sunday Independent, which revealed that the Federal Ministry of Education could be the culprit here.

Although the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, insisted in a response to Sunday Independent that the Federal Government has not slowed down its efforts to check the deadly disease, which claimed eight lives, visits to some schools across the country by our correspondents have revealed obvious lapses in the monitoring of the preventive measures in schools, even as others are trying to keep up with standard.

This was particularly observed in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), where some public and private schools partially resumed before the October 8 date after a forced break to avoid the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), which broke out in July.

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