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LAGOS PUBLIC, PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO RESUME ON OCTOBER 8- GOV. FASHOLA

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Public and private
schools will now reopen on October 8, 2014, according to state Governor
Babatunde Fashola. The new date was approved at a meeting with school heads,
tutors, stakeholders held on Sunday at Lagos Television Blue Roof, Agindigbi,
Ikeja.
Addressing hundreds
of teachers of Lagos schools, Principals, Vice-Principals, Tutors, Head
Teachers as well as Executive members of the State’s Chapter of the Nigerian
Union of Teachers and other education stakeholders, Fashola reiterated that the
Ebola Virus Disease has been contained in the State and there was no need for
fear.
The main teachers
union had kicked against the Monday, September 22, 2014 resumption date set by
the federal government after declaring that the deadly Ebola disease had been
completely eradicated in Nigeria.
The Governor said
the extension would allow government enough time to distribute personal hygiene
and other preventive materials against Ebola infection in all the schools.
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