{"id":221272,"date":"2020-05-28T18:08:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=221272"},"modified":"2020-05-28T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T17:37:47","slug":"covid-19-presidency-clears-air-on-dates-for-reopening-of-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=221272","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Presidency clears air on dates for reopening of schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">One of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s media aides, Tolu Ogunlesi, has debunked rumours of a fixed date for the reopening of schools across the country.<br \/>\nInstitutions of learning have been closed down for almost three months, to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria.<br \/>\nHowever, Ogunlesi on his Twitter handle wrote: \u201cThe news circulating about the fixing of a date for schools\u2019 resumption is fabricated \/ fake.<br \/>\n\u201cSGF\u2019s words: \u201cThe PTF wishes to inform Nigerians that the Federal Ministry of Education WILL ROLL OUT MEASURES TO BE PUT IN PLACE for safe re-opening of our schools.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cNO dates YET.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, speaking yesterday during the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19\u2019s briefing, specifically denied that schools will reopen on June 8.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s media aides, Tolu Ogunlesi, has debunked rumours of a fixed date for the reopening of schools across the country. Institutions of learning have been closed down for almost three months, to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria. However, Ogunlesi on his Twitter handle wrote: \u201cThe news circulating about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[2658,14575,2054],"class_list":["post-221272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-a","tag-covid-19","tag-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221272","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=221272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}