Reopen Schools Partially For Students To Write WASSCE – Reps Tell Buhari

The House of Representatives has approached President Muhammadu Buhari to arrange an incomplete reviving of schools to permit understudies sit for the 2020 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination. 

As indicated by Punch, the House decided at the whole on Tuesday following a consistent appropriation of a movement moved by a part, Nnolim Nnaji. 

The Committee on Basic Education and Services had before on Friday blamed the choice by the Federal Government to suspend the arrangement to incompletely revive schools for students in definite classes to take outside assessments. 

The board of trustees had especially condemned the choice to refuse Nigerian understudies from sitting for WASSCE to be directed by the West African Examination Council for the 2019/2020 scholarly meeting. 

Schools at the sum total of what levels have been closed since March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had prior in June said the Federal Government, in what it called "safe reviving of schools," had endorsed the resumption of students in graduating classes, including Primary 6, Junior Secondary School 3 and the Senior Secondary School 3. 

In affirming the resumption of graduating classes, the administration said water must be given in schools to hand-washing and the two students and instructors must wear face veils while watching social separating. 

Afterward, the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, had during the press instructions by the PTF declared that the 2020 WASSCE would hold between August 4 and September 5. 

Be that as it may, the Minister of Education, Adamu, toward the finish of a gathering of the Federal Executive Council directed by the President last Wednesday said every single government school would stay shut until it was protected to revive them. 

Adamu additionally asked state governments that had reported schools' resumption intends to cancel such. 

The pastor expressed that WAEC couldn't decide the resumption date of schools for Nigeria. He asserted that the board declared the date of assessment while the administration was all the while counseling partners on what to do.