Covid-19: Minister For Education Reveals When Schools May Re-Open

 “I have just finished a meeting with the representatives of WAEC and NABTEB and I understand how that worries our parents at the moment and how anxious our children are to know what next’’ the Minister of State for Education, Emeja Nwajuiba disclosed today – Monday,June 8,20202 – during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19.

The Minister disclosed further “As soon as those in charge of the blockade lift it because there is no way we can open our schools if teachers can’t come. So, we are looking at somewhere after the interstate lockdown is lifted. Because we will need that kind of openness for the children to move.”

The Federal Government  in March -2020- shut all schools in the country as part of efforts to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic..