Several schools in Nigeria resumed on Tuesday to enable pupils to write the Senior School Certificate Examination, report
“The Council notes that several versions of the examination timetable have been in circulation and enjoins the general public to disregard them as they did not emanate from it. Health officials were also on ground at the gates of the schools to take the temperature of students, teachers and visitors before allowing them into the premises.The Principal of Gateway Secondary School at Ita-Iyalode, Adebayo Ojo, in an interview with NAN said the school recorded about 90 per cent attendance on the first day of resumption.
“If the temperature of any of the students rises above the normal, such student would be taken to the sickbay,” he said. A teacher with an infrared thermometer was measuring the pupils’ temperature before allowing them into the school compound. “Peradventure, any student’s body temperature shoots above the recommended gauge, such will be referred to the health officials at our sickbay where we also have an isolation centre within the school here. And if need be, the National Centre for Disease Control officials will be notified for appropriate action is such is suspected to be of COVID-19,” he said.Public schools in Ebonyi State resumed on Tuesday. Private schools were, however, closed.
“The teachers and students only came because they heard the federal government’s announcement that schools should resume today. Diri urged the committee to monitor and ensure compliance with the safety protocols to make sure the state maintain its lowest infection rate of 339 among the comity of neighbouring states in the region.Schools in the Nyanya, Jikwoyi and Kurudu precincts of the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday complied with the Federal Government guidelines on the safe reopening of schools for exiting classes.
The Commissioner for Basic Education, Prof Kate Omenugha, said the schools would be closely monitored by a task force. At Ejiofor Secondary School, Nsukka, a private school, the Principal Mr Casmir Ozioko, said students of the school would resume August 10 as staff of the school would use this week to put all necessary arrangements in place.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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