…as tertiary institutions resume in two weeks
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Saturday, ordered the reopening of tertiary institutions from September 14.
Also, primary and secondary schools in the state will reopen for academic activities from September 21, 2020.
The governor announced this during a briefing on Saturday at the State House, Marina.
“I am pleased to announce that our tertiary institutions will be allowed to reopen from September 14, 2020, all our tertiary institutions,” he said.
Federal and state government shut all schools in the country last March as part of measures to check the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But the Federal Government announced the resumption of graduating pupils effective August 4, 2020 to write this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination from August 17, 2020, through September 12, 2020.
But Sanwo-Olu said on Saturday that after the WASSCE, primary and secondary schools in the state would also be permitted to reopen from September 21, 2020 to resume academic activities.
The governor said, “As regards our primary and secondary schools, we are working towards reopening them around the 21st of September 2020. This position is not cast in stone and subject to a review of our ongoing monitoring and procedures from the Ministry of Health.
“Remember that we said that the virus will peak and we will flatten the curve in the month of August. From what we have seen, it appears we have flattened the curve. In the last two weeks, we have continued to see a drop in the positivity that we have encountered in the state.”
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said as of Friday night, Lagos has recorded 18,083 infections including 2,653 cases on admission, 15,228 discharged patients, and 202 fatalities.