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BREAKING: Lagos Govt Shuts Down Schools Over #EndSARS Protests
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Lagos State government on Monday evening ordered the closure of all schools in the state over the ongoing #ENDSARS protests across the country.
The states Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, gave the directive in a statement titled: Lagos directs students to stay at home, and issued by the Head of Public Affairs in the ministry, Kayode Abayomi.
She said the schools were shut down over tension generated by the protests against the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
Students returned to school for the resumption of academic activities after about seven months of enforced COVID-19 holiday on Monday.
The statement read: The Lagos State government has directed all pupils/students in public and private schools to stay at home following the tension generated by the anti-SARS protests.
A new date of resumption for all classes will be announced as soon as possible.
The safety of the pupils/students, parents and all staff working in schools is paramount at this critical period.
The commissioner, however, advised parents to keep an eye on their wards and not allow them to be used as willing tools in the hands of those who might want to hijack the protests to unleash mayhem on the society.
She also encouraged schools to utilise other means of distance teaching and learning i.e. radio, television, and online media as they have been doing during and post COVID-19 lockdown.
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Ex- Ghanaian President Dies Of COVID-19
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Former President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana has died from complications of COVID-19.
According to TheCable, the ex-president died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, the capital of Ghana, on Thursday morning.
A military ruler, who later joined politics, Rawlings ruled Ghana from 1981 to 2001.
He led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana.
A flight lieutenant of the Ghanaian Air Force, Rawlings first staged a military coup as a young revolutionary on May 15, 1979, five weeks before scheduled elections to return the country to civilian rule.
When it failed, he was imprisoned, publicly court-martialed, and sentenced to death.
After initially handing power over to a civilian government, he took back control of the country on 31 December 1981 as the chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).
He then resigned from the military, founded the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and became the first president of the Fourth Republic.
He was re-elected in 1996 for four more years. After two terms in office, the limit according to the Ghanaian constitution, Rawlings endorsed his vice-president John Atta Mills as a presidential candidate in 2000.
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