Nigeria: Ebola – Nigerian Lawmakers Reject Visit to Country’s Entry Points, Urge FG to Release Emergency Funds

The lawmakers said they could be exposed to the Ebola virus if they visit Nigeria’s entry points where the disease was detected.

The Senate on Wednesday rejected a proposal for its members to visit the entry points through which a woman infected with Ebola entered the country before she was isolated at a private hospital in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

The upper chamber instead urged the federal government to immediately release emergency funds from the Service Wide Vote to prevent the spread of…