Ogun State Postpones 2014/2015 Academic Session Student’s Resumption

[Shola Sholaz]

The Ogun State Government has postponed the resumption date for all primary and secondary schools in the state earlier scheduled for September 15, 2014 to a date to be announced later.
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This was made known by the state's commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Segun Odubela, who said that the extension was in response to the Federal Ministry of Education's directive that schools in the country should put resumption for 2014/2015 on hold in order to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.
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Odubela urged parents and guardians to take proper care of their children and wards by monitoring their movement and engaging them in academic activities.
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Reacting to the development, a parent who has three children in a public primary school in Abeokuta, Stella Obawoye, said "It is a good step and I support it."
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Another parent, Mr. Sylvester Akabogu, also echoed Obawoye, stressing that health officials should be posted to schools whenever the pupils would resume to ensure no pupil with the EVD was allowed to mix with others.