Adefioye Iyunade
The Minister Of State For Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has said that the Federal Government will in a couple of days tell Nigerians when universities will reopen.
Nwajiuba, who said that the government is still discussing with various stakeholders, said as soon it is done with its conversation, universities and other tertiary institutions will reopen.
The Minister gave the assurance that universities will reopen at some point when it is safe to do so, adding that the presidential task force was working on it.
According to him, “if students are out of school, I am almost out of job as well, so it is important that I get you back to school.”
He assured that the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will not linger upon resumption as it would be resolved before classes begin.
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Nwajiuba said that the Federal Government will not reopen schools until it receives “a clean bill” from the presidential task force on COVID-19.
“Today, I met with owners of private tertiary institutions in the country and during the meeting, they demanded that the schools be reopened since the government has approved reopening of markets that have more population than the schools in the country,” he said.
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