Education
Coronavirus: Expert Tasks Schools On Hygiene
A retired school head, Mrs Apeke Oladun, has urged school proprietors and owners to be proactive in curtailing the spread of the deadly Coronavirus (Covid-19) among children.
Oladun advised schools to ensure that maximum hygiene and safety measures are taken within their ability. She made the call while fielding questions from newsmen at the weekend in Ilorin.
“I think now schools should begin to inform their teachers to monitor the activities of students and pupils to ensure that they do not involve in dirty practices especially in using the toilets.
“There should be provision for hand sanitisers both in the toilets and classrooms, teachers should also be observant in case there is a sick child in the class so as to report appropriately. “because children are at the receiving end of disease outbreaks, besides they are very free with one another and so can contact infections easily.
“Parents should endeavor to buy hand sanitisers and place in their kids school bags, and also teach them how to use it.
“We are responsible for their protection, and we should do all we can to protect them.
“And everyone of us should be more health conscious now; the government cannot handle this alone, it starts from us with basic and simple hygiene practices,” she said.
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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