COVID-19: Education commissioner reveals necessary requirement for schools before been allowed to resume

Lagos state commissioner for education, Folashade Adefisayo has revealed important required needed for schools before been allowed to resume.

Adefisayo said the Lagos state government is meeting with the federal ministry of education to work out guidelines that must be adopted before schools will be re-opened.

Onyxnews Nigeria quoted a report by Vanguard saying, the commissioner who disclosed this during an online show, ‘Covinspiration show‘, said they are watching how the pandemic virus turns out to see the next step.

The commissioner further said that the Lagos state government is working with the federal government and the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on to reopening of schools as soon as possible in the country.

She added that schools will resume for learning when they are certain the children are safe.

The federal government disclosed that schools nationwide will soon be opened without giving any particular date when the reopening of schools will take place.

The minister of state for education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said this on Thursday, 21 May, during the presidential task force on COVID-19 briefing.