National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, Lagos State, says pupils in Senior Secondary School 3 will resume classes on August 3.
President, NAPPS, Lagos State chapter, Mr Amusa Olawale, disclosed this at a press conference in Lagos on Friday.
Olawale explained that plans were afoot to ensure the conduct of the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination in September.
“In the last meeting the South-West governors had with the commissioners for education, they are still working on how WASSCE would be conducted in September, because if these pupils don’t sit the exam, the 2020/2021 session will be seriously affected,” he said.
The Lagos NAPPS president added that the Lagos State Ministry of Education had given them permission to resume once they had met the necessary requirements for preventing COVID-19.
“We had a meeting with the Director General, Quality Assurance, Lagos State Ministry of Education and we shall be resuming on August 3. We have been given clearance for reopening of schools but if a school does not have the requirements, they may not be allowed to resume. For this reason, we also set up NAPPS quality assurance committee to go round and ensure our members meet up with these requirements,” he said.
Olawale, however, disclosed that that 65 per cent of NAPPS members benefited from the loan given to Small Medium Scale Enterprise by the Federal Government.
“We facilitated the granting of FG N50bn palliative loans to 65 per cent of our members during the lockdown and just three weeks ago, we were credited,” he said.