The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Emeka Nwajiuba has come out to say that the ministry now has enough information to make a decision on school reopening in Nigeria.
He however revealed that such information and decision would have to be presented to the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19.
According to him, he never said coronavirus was a sham, and anyone who says or reports otherwise is only being economical with the truth.
He added that coronavirus is very real and citizens must keep protecting themselves from getting infected.
His words, “I am constrained to refute this allegation that some of our brothers in the media reported that I said Coronavirus is a sham.
“None of those things happened, Coronavirus is real, may be they could not understand my grammar.”
“Our children are kept at home because we may not know who is infected”.
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