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FG Orders Schools’ Resumption Jan 18 Pending Review
The Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19, yesterday, said schools across the country would resume on Monday, January 18, 2021, pending the review by the Federal Government.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, had last Monday, said the Federal Government would review the resumption date of schools as a result of rising cases of Coronavirus.
“On the January 18 resumption date, we are reviewing it. We are going to review it.
“At the PTF meeting today, we considered it, and tomorrow, the ministry is going to take it up,” he said.
But PTF National Coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu, in a TV programme, yesterday, said what the minister of education said, last Monday, was that the ministry was going to do a review of resumption.
He said Adamu never said the Education Ministry was going to change the date of resumption, saying that what he said was that “they will review the situation and let the nation know.”
Aliyu stated emphatically that resumption date for schools nationwide remained January 18 until the Ministry of Education comes up with an alternative date.