After the initial announcement by the Federal Government of Nigeria, concerning the readjustments of the official resumption dates from the mid of this month to the month of October 2014, Parents and some private schools have not stopped laying complaints about the lengthy holidays and the negative impact it may have in the lives of the children. To find details of the postponement of resumption date, go to the link at FG Postpones schools resumption date over Ebola Fear.
In a press release by the Minister of Health,Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Wednesday, stated that Private and Public primary and secondary schools in Nigeria may resume in the middle of the the month of September 2014. Here is the quote of what the minister was saying on one of the press release below:
“Prof. Chukwu disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.
At the briefing were the Ministers of Information, Labaran Maku, Transport, Umar Idris, National Planning, Abubakar Suleiman and Power (State), Mohammed Wakil.
The Federal Government through the Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, had last month announced October 13 as resumption date for all schools.
Chukwu said the expert opinion on Ebola, with the strong containment efforts by the government, is that the students can resume earlier than October 13.
The new resumption date, he said, will be announced by the Minister of Education after meeting with states Commissioners for Education and other stakeholders, who were involved in fixing the October 13 date.
The minister, who gives weekly report to the Council on the Ebola disease brought to Nigeria by the late Liberian- American, Patrick Sawyer in July, said that there are presently 296 contacts under surveillance in the country.
The 296 under surveillance, he said, include 255 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and 41 in Lagos State.
After three weeks of surveillance in Lagos, he said 320 persons have been removed from surveillance list in the state.”
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