According to news coming from Abuja this morning,The Nigerian Government has taken far-reaching decisions to curtail the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus in the country,thus, postponed the resumption of all primary and secondary schools till October 13.
Announcing the shift in resumption date in Abuja, Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, said the decision to do so became necessary in view of the risk posed by Ebola which could easily spread through schools
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According to Mr Shekarau: “All primary and secondary schools, both public and private are to remain closed until Monday October 13, 2014 which is the new school resumption date for all schools throughout the Federation”.
The schools were originally scheduled to re-open in the second week of September.
Shekarau, who briefed the press at the end of a meeting with state commissioners of education, added that all on-going summer schools were also affected with immediate effect.
Further, he said the change in the resumption date was also to enable the Federal and state governments, as well as school authorities put in place adequate preventive measures before the pupils returned to school.
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