BREAKING: Lagos govt lists classes that will resume school September 21

Lagos State Government has listed classes that will resume school on 21st of September 2020.

OnyxNews Nigeria reports that the Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo, has confirmed that only present JSS3 and SS2 students, will resume school on September 21.

The Head, Public Affairs, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Kayode Abayomi, made this disclosure in a statement on Sunday.

The statement emphasized that the state will adopt a phased approach in the reopening of public schools.

BREAKING: Lagos reopens primary and secondary schools

The statement read in part: “This phased approach to opening will enable public schools to meet COVID-19 social distance rules and safety protocols and will help us watch the behaviour of the pandemic as we gradually open up our schools.

“The present JSS 3 and SSS 2 students in public schools in the State are to resume classes from Monday, 21st of September, 2020.

“The resumption will permit the present JSS 3 students who are already in an exit class to revise and get adequately prepared for their forthcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination organised by the Lagos State Examination Board and scheduled between Tuesday, 6th and Monday, 12th of October, 2020.

“The resumption will also afford the present SSS 2 students an opportunity to prepare effectively for their transition to SSS 3. The scheduled dates and venues for Entrance Examination into Lagos State Model Colleges will soon be announced by the State Examination Board,” the statement read.