Pupils in at least 15 states in the country will not return to
their classrooms today as directed by the Federal Government.
This is
because in most of the states, teachers are insisting that safety measures must
be put in place to protect them and their pupils from contracting the deadly
Ebola Virus Disease.
In some
of the states like Lagos and Ogun, the governments opted not to comply with the
September 22 date until necessary Ebola safety kits were put in place in their
schools.
The
other states where normal academic activities will not resume are
Rivers, Oyo, Ekiti, Osun, Benue, Niger, Zamfara, Adamawa, Kano, Kwara, Kogi,
Akwa Ibom and Ebonyi states.
Teachers
in Lagos will be on duty today but pupils will remain at home until October 8.
There
had been controversy over the directive by the Federal Government that schools
should resume on September 22 since the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease had
been contained in the country.
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