BY DAYO ADESULU
The Federal Government has denied the support of January 18 as resumption date for private and public schools in Nigeria.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu clarified that the Federal Government had reservations about the resumption of schools on January 18.
He explained that when the states governments wanted to go ahead with the school’s resumption, the Federal Government was against it. He noted that the Federal and the States had to reach a compromise since the federal does not control all the schools
Adamu said: “We sat down, looked at the figures and we took the decision that schools should not open.
”Unfortunately, we have to state this because it is supposed to be a collective decision, but you must understand that the schools we are talking about, the Federal Government has only about 100 out of thousands of schools.
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”The schools are under the jurisdiction of states and just as the PTF was unanimous in saying that schools should not open, states were unanimous that schools should open.
”So, we have to compromise and as PTF we shall monitor what is happening on a daily basis. There could be some review again.”
