Pupils, teachers shun FG’s directive on resumption

Pupils, teachers shun FG’s directive on resumption

Minister of Education, Mr. Ibrahim Shekarau

Public schools in Lagos State and in many other states across the country did not resume for the 2014/2015 academic session on Monday as directed by the Federal Government.

Schools remained closed in states including Oyo, Ogun, Rivers, Kano, Kwara, Zamfara, Niger and Osun as teachers and pupils did not resume in compliance with their state governments’directive.

However, our correspondents, who monitored the strike, said there was partial resumption of classes in some other states, including Abia State and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Controversy had greeted the resumption of schools following the importation of Ebola Virus Disease into the country by an American-Liberian diplomat, Patrick Sawyer, on July 20.

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