Enugu Schools To Resume January 18

The Enugu State government on Monday fixed January 18, 2021 for schools to resume in the state.

The agreement was reached after a meeting held between the state government and education stakeholders on Monday in Enugu. The re-scheduling is in response to the second wave of the Covid-19.

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Prof Uchenna Odo, Enugu State education commissioner, said both private and public schools in the state were advised to ensure full compliance with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control guidelines for the containment of the global pandemic. He also said that his ministry would ‘engage in constant monitoring of compliance when schools resume’.

According to him, “It was also decided that to help engage the students/pupils, all tertiary institutions, basic and post-basic schools are advised to activate their e-learning programmes.”

Meanwhile, Mr Ernest Ike Ugwu, chairman, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Enugu State, told THE WHISTLER that, “After considering all the pros and cons as it concerns school resumption in respect to the second wave of Covid-19, the stakeholders agreed that the second phase of the first term of 2020/2021 academic session that was supposed to resume today in nursery, primary and secondary schools will now be on 18/01/2021, while we await the full adjusted 2020/2021 academic calendar on or before 18/1/2021.”

He advised private school owners to “make sure that all necessary materials that will help us in maintaining all Covid-19 protocols in our various schools are put in place to further strengthen the zero case we have recorded since we resumed after the first phase.”

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THE WHISTLER further reports that the Enugu State government, in a bid to curtail the second wave of Covid-19, earlier suspended her annual prayer session usually held at the Government House, Enugu, to commence work for the New Year.

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