{"id":41336,"date":"2020-07-08T18:38:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T17:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=41336"},"modified":"2020-07-08T18:39:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T17:39:23","slug":"fg-reverses-resumption-of-schools-withdraws-unity-schools-from-2020-wassce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/fg-reverses-resumption-of-schools-withdraws-unity-schools-from-2020-wassce\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Reverses Resumption Of Schools, Withdraws Unity Schools From 2020 WASSCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has reversed its earlier decision to reopen schools, withdrawing students of Unity Schools from the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) scheduled for August 5 and September 5.<\/p>\n<p>The examination was initially postponed indefinitely to check the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>But Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, minister of state for education, had announced that the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations will take place between August and September.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>But speaking to state house correspondents at the end of the virtual federal executive council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, Adamu Adamu, minister of education, said Nigerian schools will not reopen any time soon until it is safe to do so because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He said that final-year students preparing for the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) will not be allowed to return to school contrary to earlier announcement.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The examination was initially postponed indefinitely to check the spread of COVID-19.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6896,7105],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-41336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-school-resumption"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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