Following the increase in number of daily cases of the coronavirus in Nigeria, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu says the Federal Government is planning to postpone the reopening date for schools indefinitely.
Recall that schools were authorized to begin on 18th January by FG. Adamu gave this update while speaking at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.
He announced;
“It (January 18th date of school reopening) is not sacrosanct. When we decided on that date it was just a target towards what we were working on.
“Of course, we are keeping it in view and looking at what is happening in the society and then it is supposed to be subject to constant review. Even today at the PTF meeting we looked at the rising figures and thought about if we should probably take another look at it.
“On January 18th resumption, we are reviewing it, we are going to review it… tomorrow the Ministry is going to take it up.”
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