Bauchi And Abia Government Give Dates For Re-opening Schools

 

The Abia State Government has announced reopening of primary and secondary schools in the State on Monday, 28th September, 2020, to complete the 3rd term of 2019/2020 academic session with one week of revision classes.

This was announced in a statement signed by the State Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi Kalu, after the State Executive Council Meeting held at the Banquet hall of Government House, Umuahia, Thursday.

The State Government also disclosed that the third term (promotion) examination which is expected to start from Monday, 5th October to Friday, 16th October, 2020, will be used to assess pupils/students based on the tutorial from first and second term, as well as the radio and television classroom program.


According to the Government, the first term of 2020/2021 session for primary and secondary schools in the State will start on 26th October, 2020, as teachers will go on one week break to enable them mark and compute promotional examination results.

It stated that the term will end on the 23rd of December, 2020



Bauchi Also Re-opens

In view of the low number of COVID-19 cases being reported on daily basis in recent times, the Bauchi State Government has finally decided to reopen all primary and secondary schools in the state with effect from October 12, 2020.


This was disclosed on Friday by the state Commissioner for Education Dr Aliyu U. Tilde, at a press briefing held at the ministry.


According to the commissioner, schools were closed at the end of second term in March this year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that the schools remained closed until five weeks ago when government reopened some of them for candidates to write their West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

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