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The Federal Government, on Thursday, puts limitations to class sizes, hostel occupancy and asked the schools to ensure the 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, as resumption date stands. The government ... Read more

Three students of the Lagos State University College of Medicine, LASUCOM, have tested positive for COVID-19 disease leading to the shutting down of the school by its management to curtail the spread of the virus. The affected students, according to a statement signed by the Coordinator, Centre for Information Press and Public Relations, ... Read more

Schools in Ogun State are to resume on Monday, January 18, 2021, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the state government has said. This was contained in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi A. Arigbabu, on Friday. Arigbabu said the “resumption date for all Primary, Secondary schools and ... Read more

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa has approved the re-opening of all schools in the state with effect from Monday, January 18. Hajiya Fatu Sabo, Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology in the state said this in a statement issued to newsmen on Friday in Lafia. According to Sabo, the approval was given after due consultation ... Read more

The Lagos State Government has confirmed that all public and private schools below tertiary level, will resume on Monday, January 18, 2021. This will be the start of the second term for the 2020/2021 academic session. This was announced on Friday, by the Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo. Adefisayo noted that this ... Read more

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has said that schools in the state will remain closed until Feb. 1, as the state grapples with the second wave of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Obaseki stated this at a news conference on Friday in Benin, as most states across the federation gear up to reopen schools on January 18. ... Read more

NATIONAL Youth Service Corps, NYSC, on Friday, said it would not hesitate to decamp whoever that flouts extant guidelines aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19. The NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, handed down the warning while speaking during a sensitisation webinar jointly organised by the NYSC and Nigeria ... Read more

The Plateau State University chapter, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has commenced an indefinite strike action over insecurity, poor infrastructural development, and arrears of earned allowances for its members. Dr. Pamson Bentse, chairman of the union in the ... Read more

By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, on Friday, said it would not hesitate to decamp any corps member who flouts the extant guidelines aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19. The NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, handed down the warning while speaking during a sensitisation webinar ... Read more

The Senate of the Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano (YUMSUK), has approved Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 as the resumption date for the continuation of its 2019/2020 Academic session. Abdullahi Abba-Hassan, Head of Information, Publications and Public Relations Unit of the university, ... Read more