{"id":247752,"date":"2026-10-21T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ebola-nigerian-lawmakers-reject-visit-to-countrys-entry-points-urge-fg-to-release-emergency-funds\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T16:00:29","slug":"nigeria-ebola-nigerian-lawmakers-reject-visit-to-countrys-entry-points-urge-fg-to-release-emergency-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ebola-nigerian-lawmakers-reject-visit-to-countrys-entry-points-urge-fg-to-release-emergency-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ebola &#8211; Nigerian Lawmakers Reject Visit to Country&#8217;s Entry Points, Urge FG to Release Emergency Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The lawmakers said they could be exposed to the Ebola virus if they visit Nigeria&#8217;s entry points where the disease was detected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">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&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The upper chamber instead urged the federal government to immediately release emergency funds from the Service Wide Vote to prevent the spread of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610210587.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmakers said they could be exposed to the Ebola virus if they visit Nigeria&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7216,1111,6990,6425,5782,14377,257,4687,393,482,7508,6654,6011,254,10525,6250],"class_list":["post-247752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-countrys","tag-ebola","tag-emergency","tag-entry","tag-funds","tag-lawmakers","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-points","tag-reject","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urge","tag-visit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}