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FG Bans Assemblies, Overcrowding, Visiting Days As Schools Resume On Monday 18

January 15, 2021 Echezonam Ibezim Jk

The Federal Government, on Thursday, banned overcrowding and large gatherings such as assemblies and visiting days, as schools reopen on Monday. It also put limitations to class sizes and hostel occupancy and asked the schools to ensure compulsory wearing of face masks by all students, teachers and workers, as well ensure temperature checks and put hand washing facilities in strategic locations in all schools The government also asked the school authorities to ensure constant supply of water and sanitisers, and make available functional health clinics with facilities for isolation and transportation of…

Nigerian Students Fume as Federal Postpone school resumption indefinitely

January 12, 2021 Echezonam Ibezim Jk

Nigerian students fume as Federal Government postpones school resumption indefinitely citing Covid-19 precautionary measures. This was made public by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu. Many Nigerians have argued that the federal government and ASUU do not care about their future having noted that they had lost one full calender academic year and about to have another truncated. The premise of their argument was mainly of government’s insensitivity towards their future owing to the fact that their counterparts in the private universities have been attending to lectures while keeping to…

COVID-19: FG releases guidelines for schools’ resumption

July 13, 2020 Echezonam Ibezim Jk

The Federal Government has released guidelines ahead of the planned resumption of schools at every level in the country but failed to disclose the dates. The guidelines outlined actions, measures and requirements needed for the safe reopening of schools after the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the guidelines released by the Federal Ministry of Education in Abuja on Monday, the safe distancing measures in the new guidelines required that in schools and other learning facilities, learners should be supported to stay two meters apart. The guidelines which was signed by the…