Kwara to screen intending pilgrims, officials for Ebola

Date: 2014-09-16

The Kwara Muslims Pilgrims Welfare Board said on Monday that 1,957 intending pilgrims and 10 officials from the state for the 2014 hajj would be screened for the Ebola virus.

The Executive Secretary of the Board, Hajia Fatima Abolore Jimoh, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin that the pilgrims and officials would be screened before they depart for the holy land.

She said the screening for Ebola became imperative in view of the panic caused by the outbreak of the disease in some parts of the country and the international attention it created.

he Executive Secretary, who did not give a specific date for the screening, said any intending pilgrim or official who tested positive would not make the trip.

Jimoh said that the pilgrims and officials would be screened twice at the Hajj transit camp in llorin and at the llorin lnternational Airport before their departure.

She said the Board had consulted the state Primary Heathcare Development Agency and other medical experts who would help in the screening.

Jimoh urged the medical officers for the screening not to play politics with the exercise in order to avoid tarnishing the image of the state and the country at the holyland.

"Anybody, no matter how highly placed, that test positive to Ebola, would not make the journey", she said.

NAN recalls that about three weeks ago, fear gripped several residents of Kwara over suspected outbreak of the Ebola virus disease.

When NAN visited the office of the board in llorin on Monday, screening forms were being distributed to some intending pilgrims. (NAN)

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Tafida     KWACOBPA     Durbar Festival     Teachers Specific Allowance     Adama Isa     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     IHS     Gobirawa     Halimah Perogi     Elerin Of Adanla     Summit University     Lithium Deposit     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Opobiyi     Balogun-Ojomu     Ojuekun     Ayegbeni     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Afonja     Ronke Adeyemi     Mohammed Kamaludeen     JAMB     3MTT     UTME     Kwara State Football Association     Shonga     Kumbi Titiloye     Lanre Badmas     Olatomiwa Williams     Isiaka Alikinla     Lanwa     Isiaka Yusuf     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Abdulraheem Olesin     Mahee Abdulkadir     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Adamu Attah     Baruba     Henry Makinwa     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Sulaiman Gado     Mohammed Haruna     Matthew Babaoye     TESCOM 2025     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Mazars Consulting     Mumeen Lah     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Ajase-Ipo     Saeedat Aliyu     Ibrahim Abiodun     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Musbau A. Akanji     Mohammed Saidu     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Iponrin     Adanla-Irese     CBT     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Maimunat Oniyangi     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Okedare     Ibrahim Bio     Olabimpe Olani     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Baba Isale     Shao     Yekeen Alabi     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Gbenga Olawepo     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Kassim Babamale     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Eleja    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     CCB     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Mutawalle     Oniye     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Village Alive Development Association     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Yusuf Arowosaye     Age AbdulKareem     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Mohammed Saidu     Ayo Opadokun     Dairo Kunle Paul     Col. Taiwo     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Kola Bukoye     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Eghe Igbinehin     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Ita-Nmo Market     Presidential Election     Yunus Lawal     Adeola Abraham     Danladi     Yemi Osinbajo     Towoju     Turaki Of Ilorin     Sherif Sagaya     Aliyu U. Tilde     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Ayedun     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Jide Ashonibare     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Pakata Patriots     Vasolar Consortium     David Oyedepo     IHS Towers     Sheikh Alimi     Onilu     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Saad Omo Iya     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Amuda Aluko     TESCOM     Sabo-Oke     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Laolu Saraki     Sheikh Ariyibi     Titus Ashaolu     Peculiar Allowance     Orisa Bridge     Saka Aleshinloye     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Kayode Laro     Hassan Saliu     Demola Banu     Lawan     Ilorin Durbar     Moji Makanjuola     Saadu Yusuf     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     CCEPE     Ayodele Shittu     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Tunde Akanbi     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Labour Party     Oja-Oba     Magaji Erubu