Students in Delta State will be going to schools with bottles of treated water daily as teachers in state pledged to resume on September 22.
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Disturbed by the directive issued by the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) that its members should not resume on September 22, President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed to them to shelve the planned industrial action.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) on Tuesday advised the Federal Government to shelve the September 22 resumption date for schools nationwide.
The Lagos State Government has directed all schools to resume on September 22 in compliance with the Federal Government’s directive.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Friday said that there was no reason why schools should not reopen on September 22.
Chukwu said this at a media briefing in Lagos.
The Federal Government has reacted to calls in some quarters that schools should remain shut nationwide until when the country is certified Ebola-free, insisting students must return to school on September 22, 2014.
The House of Representatives Committee on Education on Wednesday said it had invited the Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, and the Nigeria Medical Association to a meeting over the resumption date for schools.
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it was yet to take a position on the recent directive by the Federal Government that schools across the country should resume on September 22.
Apparently satisfied with the near containment of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the Federal Government Friday directed all private and public primary and secondary schools to reopen for 2014/2015 academic activities on September 22.