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School Reopening: Only JSS3, SS2 Students Will Resume September 21 – Lagos Govt

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By blog admin The Lagos State Government has announced that only JSS3 and SS2 students will be allowed to resume school on Monday, September 21, 2020. The Commissioner for Education in Lagos State, Folashade Adefisayo disclosed this in a statement on Sunday through the Head, Public Affairs, Ministry of Education, Kayode Abayomi while revealing plans for a new 2020/2021 Academic Session resumption for public and private schools. She said that the state would adopt a phased approach in opening public schools, thereby congratulating the SS3 students for successfully completing their WASSCE exams and urge them to stay safe as they wait for their results.  Public Schools Mrs. Adefisayo stated that the phased approach to opening will enable public schools to meet COVID-19 social distance rules and safety protocols which will help watch the behaviour of the pandemic as “we gradually open up our schools. “The present JSS3 and SS2 students in public schools in the state are to resume classe...
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NPFL Clubs Ready To Test Players, Officials For COVID-19

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The 20 clubs in the Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL, have expressed readiness to have their players and officials tested for Covid-19 before the kick-off of the 2020/2021 season.

Executive Secretary of the Club Owners Association of Nigeria, Mr. Alloy Chukwuemeka told Daily Trust on Monday that the clubs would do everything humanly possible to comply with the given health guidelines for the Nigerian topflight to resume.

Only recently, the ministry of sports through the Permanent Secretary Gabriel Aduda said despite the decision by the federal government to lift the ban on sporting activities, football would only resume, if there is full compliance to Covid-19 measures.

However, when contacted, Chukwuemeka said the clubs which are willing to do anything were indeed waiting on the relevant authorities to direct them on what to do.

“We have not seen the breakdown of the communication. What we heard was that the federal government through the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 had rolled out the conditions to be met before football leagues would resume and the ministry of sports has been mandated to ensure full compliance.

“So the sports ministry will communicate with the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF and the procedure of compliance. The NFF will communicate with the League Management Company who would in turn relay the message to the clubs.

“It is then that we would know, if testing is part of the safety measures given by the government. If that is the case, the clubs would ensure their players and officials are tested for Covid-19,” he said.

Chukwuemeka also expressed optimism that going by the recent reduction in new cases of Covid-19 in the country, spectators may be allowed into the stadia when the league resumes.

“If you look at it very well, the statistics of COVID- 19 is drooping every day. There are indications that maybe by the end of the month, there may be no new cases and if there are no new cases, the issue of playing behind closed doors might be overtaken by events,” said the Football Director of Abubakar Bukola Saraki FC Ilorin.

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