The Executive Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has given reasons for the continued closure of educational institutions across the state.
While speaking at a media briefing at the State House in Marina yesterday, the Governor said the guidelines on the schools’ reopening were not ready.
The Governor added that Lagos State Government could not reopen schools for now owing to the growing cases of COVID-19 in the state.
He said the government was putting finishing touches on the protocols to reopen basic and secondary schools and noted that meetings were currently being held with various stakeholders on the issue.
He stressed further that online learning that has been adopted by the secondary schools and state-owned tertiary institutions would continue until stakeholders reach an agreement on protocols for schools’ resumption.
He said: “Regarding the educational sector, I did mention that by now, we will be expressing a full guideline. Those guidelines are not ready yet because of the engagements we are having with the various stakeholders in that sector. But we will need to continue to encourage the online learning that we have.
“That has started extensively with our higher institutions. We are encouraging other private sectors as well to use as much online capability as a form of intervention in the educational sector until the statistics that we have subsided and we are at a stage that all of these schools can reopen again.”
