Schools in Oyo State have remained shut in-spite of the State Government’s directive to reopen on Monday (today), the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN correspondent, who went round the Ibadan metropolis reports that both primary and secondary schools’ gates were not opened after four weeks of closure.
Some students were seen already dressed in their school uniforms in the morning but they could not enter the school premises. Some of them, who spoke with NAN, under a condition of anonymity, said they were in schools based on the directive by the State Government that schools should re-open on Monday.
Both teaching and non-teaching staff were absent from the schools visited as the gates remained shut.