Thursday , March 28 2024

FG Plans Morning, Afternoon Classes For Students Ahead of School Reopening

The Federal Government has disclosed that it is considering sectionalizing classes for primary, secondary, and Universities, and other tertiary institutions in the country ahead of school reopening. This means having morning and afternoon classes . This was made known by the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, on Wednesday during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force in Abuja.

The minister also dispelled the rumours that schools will reopen on June 8th stating that the government could not afford to take any costly risk, especially as it regards the safety of pupils and students in the country.

He said, “Until we are sure these children can go to school, return safely and not put those who are more susceptible than them at risk, then we are running a huge risk and God forbid, in our hurry, something happens to our children, I am not sure how anybody will be able to retrieve what has been lost.”

Nwajiuba said the ministry is being guided by the advice of experts as well as those of the World Health Organisation, noting that the decision to reopen schools in the country would be carefully arrived at because education is on the concurrent list of the Nigerian Constitution.

“We are going to publish a specification on what we expect the reopening to look like.

“For a country that has over 115,000 primary schools, you will understand that 35,000 of these who are private must agree to set up the same standard in other to allow children to go in.

“We may have classes in the morning and classes in the afternoon so that we will have the whole of the infrastructure divided provided they can serve us. I am not sure we will have classes at night. But we can do with morning and afternoon for now,” he explained.

“The Presidential Task Force wishes to use the occasion of this celebration to congratulate our children and assure them, their parents and all stakeholders alike that all hands are on deck to reopen schools at a safe time.” He added.

He appealed to private owners of schools in the country as well as other stake holders to co-operate with the government in ensuring the safe reopening of schools in the country.

What do you think about the idea of having morning and afternoon classes?

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42 comments

  1. Queen aby

    It is a good idea, but as for me I don’t think it is a welcoming one, because most of public schools teachers that is even on normal days where their is school they still come up with their lazy attitude and don’t even av all d necessary things.
    And as for the parent they are struggling to eat two squares of meal in a day how are they going to cope with this opinion so pls let have a rethink not all fingers are equal and lives also matters alot

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