Ebola: FG Says Schools May Re-Open This Month After All

Schools across the country may likely re-open this month as the Federal Government has taken a decision to review the extension of resumption date to October 13, based on what it described as recommendation by a body of experts set up by government to look at the extension of resumption dates for primary and secondary schools.

Already, the Minister for Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, had been directed by the Federal Executive Council (FEC), to convene an emergency meeting of all states commissioners of education in order to agree on when schools can now resume nationwide.

This was disclosed by the Minister for Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, who briefed State House correspondents after Wednesday’s FEC meeting.

He said, “Mr President had directed us to be reviewing the situation with respect to when schools can reopen as we move along because it could be dynamic.

“So, the experts were commissioned to look into it and advise, and they provided that advice to the Minister of Health, who then passed it on to FEC.

“But in terms of the administrative procedure, the Minister of Education, will still have to now convene the emergency meeting with all state commissioners of education, using this expert opinion to inform the nation as to the actual date of resumption of schools.

“So, the Minister of Education, whose responsibility it is to decide, has promised to call a meeting of the commissioners for education for them to review it based on the new information.”

*** As usual it's only in Nigeria that people who call themselves leaders take decisions without due diligence without a care for how it  affects the populace, now they will go back and say hey this is now what we think. Really disgusting