By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
Nigerian students who were hoping to go back to school soon will have to wait a bit longer.
In the same vein, final year secondary school students who are looking forward to participating in the forthcoming West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations, should prepare their minds about the possibility of losing one academic year.
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who made these assertions on Wednesday after the week’s virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, said in the light of the new thinking of the Federal Government, there is no date for school resumption yet.
The FEC meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The minister said federal schools would remain closed until it is safe to reopen them and urged state governments that have announced school resumption plans to rescind such.
Adamu, who stated that the West African Examinations Council could not determine the resumption date of schools for Nigeria, said he would prefer that Nigerian students lose an academic year than expose them to health dangers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
