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The Lagos State Government, in its bid to ensure compliance of public and private schools to COVID-19 protocols and guidelines for schools reopening, on Monday, paid a random visit to some schools across the state. Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo led a monitoring team to assess the process in which the students ... Read more

Gov. Mohammed Badaru of Jigawa on Monday announced the immediate reopening of 40 schools in the state and also directed all categories of civil servants to return to work from Aug. 4. The governor, who made this known while briefing newsmen in Dutse, also directed the Ministries of Health and Education to come up with time schedules for ... Read more

The Federal Ministry of Environment in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education has begun decontaminating and disinfecting 19,000 unity schools in preparation for their resumption. The Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammed Mahmood Abubakar while briefing newsmen in Kaduna said the collaborating ministries have put in place a ... Read more

The Kaduna State Government has directed secondary schools to open from August 10 to enable SSS 3 students write their (SSCE). The state Commissioner for Education, Shehu Makarfi, said in a statement in Kaduna on Monday, that the directive was in compliance with the Federal Ministry of Education resolution for schools to open on August ... Read more

There was a low turnout of students in Lagos schools on Monday even as students in senior secondary school class 3 (SS3) in the state have been asked to resume for academic activities after spending more than four months at home due to COVID-19 pandemic in the country. They resumed strictly for revision lessons to prepare them well for ... Read more

Ogun State government has announced that it is making Covid-19 test free for all returning SS3 boarding students be they from private or public schools. Ogun State will also make provide face masks to all students in both private and public schools. Governor Dapo Abiodun via a Facebook post on Monday said that “The state has been ... Read more

The Ogun State Government on Monday cancelled the proposed N25,000 payment for coronavirus test for final year secondary school students. The government also said the test will no longer be compulsory for the JSS3 and SS3 students. Governor Dapo Abiodun said this following protest by parents against the introduction of the policy, which ... Read more

The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) says the screening test for all its candidates will hold on Aug. 15 at designated centres across the country, starting from 7:00 am. The NDA Registrar, Brig.-Gen. Ayoola Aboaba, announced this in a statement issued in Kaduna on Monday. “This is to bring to the attention of candidates that the ... Read more

The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, says that private school owners are entitled to charge fees for the third term as schools start resuming for exit classes. Nwajiuba said this at the media briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on Monday in Abuja. He was reacting to ... Read more

Friday Olokor, Leke Baiyewu and Tukur Muntari The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has asked students with symptoms of COVID-19 to stay at home as resumption of the Senior Secondary School 3 begins this week nationwide. The PTF faulted state governments asking students to produce results of their COVID-19 tests before resumption. It said ... Read more