…No accord with states to re-open schools Jan 18 FG
…Partial compliance with safety rules as schools reopen
…No COVID-19 test required for resuming students FG
…NMA decries re-opening amid second wave infections
…Low turnout of students
…To sanction second batch of 100 test defaulters
By Sola Ogundipe, Health Editor, Dayo Johnson, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Chioma Obinna, Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Adesina Wahab, Omeiza Ajayi, Joseph Erunke, Rotimi Ojomoyela, Shina Abubakar, James Ogunnaike, James Ogunnaike, Gabriel Olawale & Mary Obaebor
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu yesterday said that the Federal Government had reservations about the resumption of schools yesterday, January 18, even as it was observed that there was partial compliance with COVID-19 protocols in many schools that reopened in many states.
Students, parents, teachers ignore COVID-19 protocols as schools resume in Ondo Students, parents, teachers ignore COVID-19 protocols as schools resume in Ondo
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As schools across the country resume for academic activities, most students, teachers and parents in Ondo State, on Monday, failed to comply with the COVID-19 protocols.,
Tribune Online noticed that most of the students returning to schools after weeks of the holiday which was commissioned by the second wave of the COVID -19 did not adhere to the directives of the government on COVID-19 guidelines.
In some of the schools visited, many of the pupils, as well as their teachers, did not bother to use their nose masks and those who were with nose masks hung it below their chin for formality, while the social distance rule was also flouted.
RESUMPTION: Students, parents, teachers ignore COVID-19 protocols as schools resume in Ondo
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By Dayo Johnson
AS students resumed in Ondo state for the new academic session, the compliance to the COVID- 19 protocols was partially ignored.
The students flouted the COVID-19 guidelines as most of them did not use their nose masks while those who used hung it below their chin.
Parents as well as teachers also ignored the proper way of nose mask usage, in most of the schools visited in Akure, the state capital.
A visit to Oyemekun Grammar School, Akure, buckets of water, soap and sanitizers were provided at the school gate for those coming into the school, particularly the new entrants and their parents.
A 17-year-old boy has died in Ondo State after taking a psychotropic substance popularly known on the streets as ‘colorado’.
The boy identified as Joshua, who took the hard drug over the weekend, gave up the ghost after being in coma for two days.
According to sources, the deceased who was residing in Oba-Ile, Akure South Local Government Area if the State where the incident happened, took some portion of the substance from his friends who were already in the habit of taking hard drugs.
Following his weird behaviour within minutes of taking ‘colorado’, his friends were said to have called his siblings who rushed him to the hospital where he later gave up the ghost.
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Although COVID-19 dealt a big blow to social life in Nigeria and beyond, the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi played host to quite a number of events, some of which were held in low-key fashion, in compliance with preventive measures recommended by the government against the spread of the pandemic.
One of the functions witnessed in the palace was the recent visit of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, on December 4, 2020, which caught many people off guard due to the low publicity given to it.
The palace, especially the administration of which is led by Mrs Bose Oyatokun and photography headed by Alhaji Akewusola Bolaji did not take anything for granted during preparation; every detail got the best attention according to the instructions of Oba Adeyemi whose table was receiving regular reports of updates in his tasteful office.