{"id":214330,"date":"2020-04-28T12:58:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T11:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=214330"},"modified":"2020-04-28T13:03:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:03:56","slug":"presidency-makes-clarification-on-reopening-of-schools-as-buhari-relaxes-covid-19-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=214330","title":{"rendered":"Presidency makes clarification on reopening of schools as Buhari relaxes COVID-19 lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Presidency on Tuesday made clarifications on school resumption following the gradual relaxation of the lockdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari due to the outbreak of COVID-19.<br \/>\nRecall that Buhari had ordered a gradual relaxation of the lockdown starting from Monday next week, but was, however, silent on the reopening of schools.<br \/>\nHowever, Buhari\u2019s spokesperson, Femi Adesina while featuring on TVC, said schools may re-open for those about to take exams.<br \/>\nAdesina said candidates about to take West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and other examinations may be allowed to go back to school.<br \/>\nHe said: \u201cIf you look at Germany, they gradually reduced their lockdown by opening the schools for those who have exams.<br \/>\n\u201cSame may apply here as those who are to write WAEC and take examinations may be allowed to resume to take their exams.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Presidential Task Force will be the ones to decide on when to re-open.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency on Tuesday made clarifications on school resumption following the gradual relaxation of the lockdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Recall that Buhari had ordered a gradual relaxation of the lockdown starting from Monday next week, but was, however, silent on the reopening of schools. However, Buhari\u2019s spokesperson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,3],"tags":[2658,41,1570,14596],"class_list":["post-214330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-femi-adesina","tag-lockdown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}