“Please permit me to ask us to say a minute prayer for the Minister of State who is away in the U.S to receive medical treatment for an illness.”
The above was how the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu started at a meeting of stakeholders on Education on Tuesday, October 3 in Abuja after the introduction of key officials at the briefing.
The event was the 2017 World Teachers’ Day in Abuja.
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Education, Anthony Anwukah, was reportedly flown to the United States for medical treatment, with Adamu confirming he is being hospitalized for serious ailment.
Adamu, who did not disclose the ailment for which his colleague is hospitalised, urged those at the event to rise for a prayer for the speedy recovery of Anwukah.
He reiterated that Anwukah needed prayers from Nigerians especially stakeholders in the education sector.
Anwukah, it was gathered was said to have attended a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting two weeks ago wearing a cervical collar.
Anwukah is an in-law to Imo state Governor Rochas Okorocha, and there were feelers that the governor is worried over the state of health of his in-law whom he nominated minister.