A team monitoring the compliance of private schools in Lagos has sealed 10 schools in the State. The Director-General of the Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs. Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, who led the team, said that the exercise was to discourage the nonchalant attitude of some school owners and administrators to the directive and guide against the spread of the scourge. “No doubt, COVID-19 has had negative effects on our schools but we want students to...

The Benue government on Wednesday approved a partial re-opening of schools in compliance with recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. Briefing newsmen after the State Executive Council meeting, the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mrs Ngunan Addingi, said that the schools would be re-opened for primary six pupils and students in JSS 3 and SSS3. She said that the Action Committee on COVID-19 would further meet with the Ministry of Education to...

Following a two-and-a-half meeting held to review the preparedness of schools, the Ogun State government has postponed the resumption date for some categories of students it declared a week ago. The class categories are Primary Six, Junior Secondary School III and Senior Secondary School III students. The Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Mr Taiwo Adisa, said the decision was reached following visits to schools by the Commissioner for Education, Barrister Olasunkanmi Olaleye and...