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The Plateau Government directs public and private schools in the state not to exceed 20 students in a class in compliance with the social distancing protocol of COVID-19. The Universal Basic Education Board(SUBEB) Executive Chairman, Prof. Matthew Sule, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Jos. Sule
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Orders Oct 11th, 12th for full re-opening of exit classes To fumigate over 8,000 schools By Bashir Bello – Kano Kano State Government has on Thursday announced the extension of the resumption dates for it students in the Junior Secondary, JSS1 and Senior Secondary, SS1 by additional five weeks as it ordered for the reopening
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Niger state government has announced the reopening of all basic and post-basic classes of private and public institutions for third term of 2019/2020 academic session on Oct. 4. Hajiya Hannatu Salihu, the Niger state Commissioner for Education, announced this during a news conference in Minna on Monday. Salihu said that the decision to reopen schools
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Sets conditions for operation By Charly Agwam – Bauchi The Bauchi state government has ordered the reopening of primary and secondary schools across the state with conditions that the government said must be met before schools can operate. The Commissioner of Education, Dr Aliyu Tilde made this known in Bauchi on Friday during a press
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Pre-primary schools remain shut Lagos records a total of 50 flights daily since restart of airports By Olasunkanmi Akoni As Lagos recorded a decline in cases of COVID-19, the State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu on Saturday, ordered that pre-primary schools in the state are to remain closed just as other private and public primary schools
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Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Sunday evening announced September 21 for reopening of primary and secondary schools in the state. This development brings to an end months of school closure occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Fayemi who made the disclosure in
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By Peter Duru – Makurdi Benue state government has convened a meeting of stakeholders in the education sector to discuss the modalities for the reopening of schools in the state after the COVID-19 total lockdown. Addressing the gathering at the weekend in Makurdi, the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Dennis Ityavyar said the meeting was to
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Thursday, urged Kano State Schools Based Management Committees (SBMC), to acquaint themselves with the schools reopening guidelines set out by the Federal Ministry of Education. The UN agency made the call at a one-day orientation exercise on schools reopening guidelines designed to sensitise the SBMC on the guidelines
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The Federal Government has called for caution as some state governments announce reopening of schools, saying that COVID-19 remains potent and very dangerous. Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, gave the warning on Monday in Abuja at the 62nd joint national briefing of the
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Some education stakeholders in Lagos have lauded the state government on the planned reopening of schools in an effort to gradually ease the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The stakeholders made the commendation in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday. The state Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on Saturday
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