Some states in Nigeria have revealed that tertiary, secondary and primary schools cannot be allowed to reopen.

 

States like Ogun, Katsina, Bauchi, Enugu, Sokoto, Gombe and Ekiti on Sunday ruled out full reopening of schools, including tertiary institutions, a report by Punch has revealed.

 

Officials of the state governments, in separate interviews with Punch said they would not follow the Lagos State example.

 

Recall that schools in the country were closed in March as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

 

But Senior Secondary School 3 students were called back on August 4 to write the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, which started on August 17.

 

No fewer than 53,727 cases had  been confirmed in the country as of August 29.

 

Lagos had recorded 18, 104 cases; the Federal Capital Territory, 5,149 cases and Oyo State, 3,107 cases.
Also, Kano State had also record 1,725 cases as of August 29.

 

On Saturday, Lagos State, which was the epicentre of the virus until a few weeks ago, said its schools would resume in September.

 

The state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who disclosed this, said higher institutions would resume on September  14, while the resumption date for primary and secondary schools was tentatively fixed for September 21.

 

He said the decision was informed by the decline in the number of COVID-19 cases in the  state.

 

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had on Thursday said coronavirus epicentre had shifted from Lagos State to Plateau State.

 

On Sunday, the Ogun State Government said it was not in a hurry to reopen tertiary institutions, secondary and primary schools.

 

The government said it would avoid taking an uninformed decision to reopen schools because Lagos State had made the announcement to reopen schools.

 

The Special Adviser to the governor on Public Communications, Remmy Hazzan, in an interview with The  PUNCH, said the state government shut the schools based on the Federal Government's order and would reverse the order based on the same method.