Nigerians are currently restless over recent reports of a Liberian who
died of the dreaded Ebola Virus in a Lagos hospital last week.
Panic-stricken people have been sending messages out on how to avoid
the virus.
What may not be known to many is that ordinary Nigerians are not alone
in the fear of Ebola Virus. Even ministers are now weary of who they
relate with in order not to contract the disease.
This played out in the Villa on Wednesday. At the end of the weekly
Federal Executive Council meeting, as they found their way out of the
Villa, a minister from the South East shook hands with one of the
Special Advisers to the President. Suddenly, the minister stopped on
his track, withdrew his hand and demanded to know from the
presidential aide whether he had not visited Liberia lately. Both of
them laughed over the joke.
But a beautiful female minister from the South South took her own joke
farther when, armed with a liquid material, she insisted that whoever
wanted to shake her must be ready to apply the substance on his or her
palm first. It was difficult to confirm what the material was.
It would have been interesting to see if she would have insisted that
the President too apply the substance if he had approached her for a
handshake that day.
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