{"id":3645,"date":"2021-01-14T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T13:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2021-01-14T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T13:38:04","slug":"academic-calendar-remodified-as-schools-resume-january-18-in-kogi-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/academic-calendar-remodified-as-schools-resume-january-18-in-kogi-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Calendar Remodified as Schools Resume January 18 in Kogi – Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Stephen Adeleye<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogi State Government on Thursday reaffirmed that all Public and Private Schools in the state are to resume academic activities on Monday January 18, 2021, and called on all relevant stakeholders to comply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Hon. Wemi Jones, FCIB, made the announcement during a press briefing on Thursday in his office in Lokoja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones reiterated that all schools in the state both public private, should resume on Monday January 18, 2021, to continue the first term 2020\/2021 academic session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”It has become imperative for me to address the press this morning to clear the air, so as to prevent confusion on account of school resumption in Kogi State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”I will like to state unequivocally that resumption date for all schools in Kogi State remains 18th of January, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”This applies to both public and private primary and secondary, and tertiary institution of learning in the state”, Jones said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commissioner said that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, had done a revised school academic calender to accommodate and cover up for the two weeks’ break extension, due to lockdown prompted by the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted that schools in Kogi were initially scheduled to resume on January 4, 2021, for continuation of first term, but was extended by two weeks due to the general hardship in the country as a result of the second wave of Covid-19 lockdown, as advised by the Federal Ministry of Education through the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that His Excellency, Gov. Yahaya Bello, had directed the ministry to comply with the two weeks break extension in the state as advised by the PTF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”’The governor, thereafter, clearly stated that the state would not jeopardize the education of our children by extending school resumption beyond 18th of January, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n