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Schools’ reopening: We won’t experiment with your children, FG assures parents

Anthony Iwuoma

The Federal Government has debunked social media reports on when schools in the country would reopen.

All primary to tertiary institutions were shut down as a precautionary measure against further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

There have been reports making the rounds, mostly speculative, that the government would soon reopen the schools.

However, Minister of State Education, Hon. Emeka Nwajiuba, said the government would only do that based on the advice of  medical experts.

Speaking on Monday in Abuja during the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce PTF on Covid-19, Nwajiuba
said: “You heard about neighbouring countries that reopened and shut down again. You have heard about numbers spiking as a result of reopening the schools. Of all the things I would like to do, I wouldn’t want to experiment with your children.

“What we are planning is to actually bring in those exit years first as soon as those who are in charge of the blockade lift it because there is no way we can open our schools if teachers cannot come.

“So, we are looking at somewhere after when this interstate lockdown is lifted because we need to have that kind of openness for even the children to move.” 

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