Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-opening of schools in the country.
Only primary and secondary school students in their final years will however, be allowed back into the classrooms to enable them prepare for crucial examinations. Travel between Nigeria’s different states will also be allowed from tomorrow, as part of the gradual easing of the lockdown measures imposed in March.
A nightly, nationwide curfew from 10pm to 4 am remains however, in force.
Earlier yesterday, head of Nigeria’s task force on coronavirus, Boss Mustapha, suggested that the authorities might re-impose a total lockdown in 18 of the country’s 774 Local Government Areas.
He said those areas alone account for about 60 percent of Nigeria’s total number of cases – possibly requiring a “precision lockdown” for mass testing.
Nigeria has recorded 24 thousand 567 cases of the virus with 565 deaths.
