COVID-19: Ebonyi reopens schools Jan 18


That is contained in a press release by the State Commissioner for Training, Dr Onyebuchi Chima, on Saturday in Abakaliki.

The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN), experiences that public, non-public and mission faculties within the state have been initially slated to renew for the continuation of the primary time period on Jan. four.

NAN remembers that the Ebonyi authorities had directed faculties to vacate for the Christmas vacation on Dec. 18, 2020, after it reopened faculties in October, with the lifting of lockdown as a result of outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

I’ve been directed by Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi, to tell most of the people that resumption of educational actions in Ebonyi faculties have been shifted to Monday, Jan. 18, as in opposition to the preliminary resumption date of Jan. four.

“The postponement is as a result of must take precautions in opposition to the upcoming second wave of COVID-19 and in compliance to the directives of the Presidential Job Drive (PTF) on COVID-19 pandemic,’’ Chima acknowledged.

The assertion additional added that tertiary establishments within the state would resume educational actions on Monday, Jan. four on situation of strict observance of the Nigeria Centre for Illness Management (NCDC) COVID-19 protocols.

It mentioned the governor defined that the choice to permit tertiary establishments to reopen was to make sure the return of scholars to full educational actions, particularly because the Educational Workers Union of Universities had suspended its 9 months industrial motion.

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