COVID-19: Fed. Govt Gives Fresh Update On Reopening Of Schools
Minister of Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, on Monday, August 3,2020,gave an update on the reopening of schools.
Nwajiuba disclosed that all the 104 Unity Colleges across the country are ready to reopen for the final year classes.
He said this during the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 in Abuja.
According to Nwajiuba: “All the 104 Unity Colleges are ready to open their gates to exit classes tomorrow, August 4, 2020.”
Federal government had shutdown schools in Nigeria, following the outbreak of COVID-19.
However, the Federal Ministry of Education had on July 27 announced that exiting classes of secondary schools will resume on August 4.
In a statement signed by its Director Press and Public Relations, Ben Goong, the Ministry had explained that the decision was to allow the exiting classes take their final examinations.
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Sam Udekwe is a journalist working in the News and Current Affairs department, Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) Enugu. He is well trained in all genres of journalistic venture.
Mr Sam read Mass Communication, graduating all with Distinction in National Diploma, Higher National Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma at IMT, Enugu and Madonna University, Okija, Anambra state, while he is presently on his M.Sc programme also in Mass Communication, at National Open University of Nigeria.
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