THE Federal Government today said that Nigerian schools will not reopen any time soon until it is safe to do so because of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic.
The Federal Government also said that the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, cannot determine the resumption date of schools for Nigeria.
Education Minister Mallam Adamu Adamu said this in a briefing to House correspondents at the end of the 7th virtual assembly of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari in the Council Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Mallam Adamu said seniors preparing for the Higher High School Certificate (SSCE) exam will not be able to return to school as believed in the past, as it was not yet safe.
The minister said Nigerian academics would miss a college year to spread them to danger.
He appealed to States that have announced the resumption of schools in their states to reconsider their position so as not to jeopardize the lives of the students.
This year’s review, administered through WAEC, was postponed indefinitely in April after it began in May because schools closed across the country in an effort to involve the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
However, the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, announced at a press conference on Monday, July 6, 2020 that the review would now take place between August and 5 September.
But commenting on the proposed reopening of schools for educational activities, Adamu said: “I don’t know if you journalists misrepresent the Minister of Education or quote what WAEC said and made a story.
“Schools under the tutelage of the federal Ministry of Education will be open on August 4 or anytime soon.
“Our schools will only open when we think they are for our young people and that’s when the scenario is good, not when the onset of infection in the country increases. I just need to be clear.”
“We may not open up soon for a review or explanation of why unless it is safe for our children, including WAEC. WAEC won’t do to us what we do. Schools will be closed.
“Yesterday (Tuesday), we called stakeholders to determine the scenario and how it deserves to be done to make it safe. While the assembly was being held, WAEC announced that it would begin the revisions. Let’s see who they’re going to receive started with
“I would also like to use this position to ask states that have already announced (reopen), I appeal to them, I think it is not safe. I feel guilty of all the young people, not just those in federally controlled schools. Please save our young people from this.
“An inflamed child is enough to infect an entire class. When they leave the classroom, they move into the bedroom, it’s the right time to open schools. I call on the states that have already announced reconsideration.”
When asked if Nigeria would be the only country to miss the WAEC exams, he said: “As Minister of Education, if given the opportunity, I do not think Nigeria would waste a whole school year rather than expose our young people to danger. WAEC is a parapublic framework of the Ministry of Education, they cannot for the government what it is doing.
The minister also said the FEC had an agreement between Kaduna Polytechnic (KADPOLY) and an investor to renovate 18 blocks of student shelters.
“The contract, which is a 15-year concession at a cost of 744,264 million naira, is a component of a renewal and transfer agreement (ROMT).
“It will take a year to build the shelters, after which the contractor will manage them for 15 years, and they will recover what they have sunk in the project.”
“There are 18 hostel blocks and one room in one block will occupy 4 students. The total number of students remaining will be 4,032”.
The Minister of Public Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said in his presentation: “The Ministry of Public Works and Housing has presented two memos. The first to help with the final touch of the Enugu-Lokponta segment of the Enugu-Port Harcourt road, is the building As a result of an existing contract of 25 billion naira, the council approved this construction.
“The timing memority the assignment of 3 other routes. The first is the Dikwa-Marte-Mungunu road for the N60. 273 billion and the Numan road that connects Borno and Adamawa by 15,527 billion naira and the third for Gombi-Biu connecting Adamawa and Borno also by 7,643 million naira.
The Minister stated that the contractor at the Abuja-Akwanga-Keffi road fare did not leave the site, the activities would probably not be considered as busy as before due to the prevailing cases in the country.
He said: “Many vendors have reduced the number of employees due to the rules we have issued as a country in terms of social estrangement. Only 11 contractors who wear out 53 projects in 20 cities were able to resume paints in the first phase of installation blockade. So we are bound by government policy.”
Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said the branch had presented its score card to the council and wanted to replace the country’s foreign policy direction.
He said: “We want to hold all of Nigeria’s stakeholder meetings to review our foreign policy and foreign policy and see where it’s going. So we started this organizational procedure and have seminars to establish a mechanism to do so.
“Then another purpose of the President is to lift a hundred million Nigerians out of poverty in the next ten years. Several proactive projects we have carried out have also tried to contribute to this.”
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