The Federal Government says it is currently reviewing the January 18 resumption date for schools across the country, following rising cases of COVID-19 infection in the country.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, spoke on Monday at the resumed briefing of the Presidential Task Force, PTF, on COVID-19 in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.
Also, the Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora, spoke about the ongoing enrolment exercise being conducted by the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, saying that only President Muhammadu Buhari had the power to issue any order to alter the subsisting one regarding the National Identity Number, NIN, registration.
Mamora spoke against the backdrop of reactions to his earlier comment which suggested that the NIN registration may be suspended due to the increased breach in COVID-19 guidelines at the NIMC offices.
National Coordinator of the PTF, Dr Sani Aliyu, on his own said that security agencies would continue to enforce compliance with the non-pharmaceutical interventions within states.
Aliyu noted that in spite of a "no lockdown policy," the PTF would review the existing protocols including a review of the curfew hours, adding that a permit to travel would be enforced, particularly for travellers from the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Earlier, the PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, had outlined the factors that led to the increased figures of coronavirus recorded in the country since November 2020.
Mustapha revealed that increased local and international travels were among the major factors, even as other factors included increased business and religious activities, reopening of schools without strict compliance with COIVID-19 safety measures.
The SGF said that no state in Nigeria was immuned to the pandemic even if reports were not coming out of such states and urged the people to stay away from activities that can expose them to the virus as the nation’s tally had crossed 100,000.
