Latest reports indicate that Nigerian midfielder, Shehu Abdullahi, was tested for Ebola virus disease in Kuwait after his club returned from a training tour of Dubai.
It would be recalled that there have been outbreak of the Ebola virus in West African countries like Guinea, Sierre Leone, Liberia and NigSpeaking with AfricanFootball.com, a close associate of Shehu informed that the former Kano Pillars star was specially singled out for an Ebola test at the Kuwaiti airport on arrival with his club from Dubai.
“He was tested because he carries a Nigerian passport. But there was no cause for alarm as he tested negative,” the official said.
The former Nigeria U-20 star only moved to Kuwait recently.
Shehu is one of the home-based Super Eagles’ bronze winning stars at this year’s Championship of African Nations (CHAN) held in South Africa.
This development comes hot on the heel of earlier reports that Rwanda Football Federation have written to Confederation of African Football (CAF) over worries about the threat of Ebola in Nigeria, ahead of their national team’s game against the Super Eagles next month.
Rwanda are due to play the Eagles at U8.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar on 6 September in a 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier, but the East African country’s soccer boss, Vincent Nzamwita said they need assurances of safety to prosecute the match.
“We wrote a letter to the Confederation of African Football (Caf) for their advice on the situation in Nigeria. We’re waiting to see if they can change the game, it’s a big worry. If the government decides that the Amavubi does not travel, then we shall respect that,” Nzamwita said.
Nigeria has been hit by the outbreak of the Ebola virus after Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian, came into Lagos with the virus on 25 July, 2014.
Though the Liberian businessman died from the disease few days after being treated in an Obalende hospital, the Ebola virus had since killed two more people in Nigeria, according to the Nigerian ministry of health.
The World Health Organisation, WHO, had announced last week that the deadly Ebola virus has killed almost 1000 people since February.
eria since February this year.
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