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Deputy Chairman, Alliance for Survival of COVID-19 and
Beyond, (ASCAB), Sina Odugbemi, says it is safer for students to
remain at home to minimize the risk of spreading
COVID-19.

While admitting that by remaining at home, the students are
losing time, he believes that the risk of sending them back to
school, by far, outweighs that of staying at home.

He also believes that the Federal Government has not done enough
in terms of setting up facility to curb the spread of the
virus.

According to him, if the students must return, parents and other
stakeholders should first visit the institutions to determine if
they have the right set up for resumption.

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“There is also this argument that keeping them at home does not
give them 100% protection but it minimizes the danger than throwing
them to an area where only God knows what is going on,” Odugbemi
said on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

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His comments come against the backdrop of the scheduled January
18 resumption of schools across the country.

However, with the fast-rising second wave of the virus, the
Federal Government says it is reviewing the date.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, stated this on Monday at
the resumed briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on
COVID-19 in Abuja.

This comes few weeks after the Academic Staff Union of
University (ASUU) ‘conditionally’ suspended its strike, ending a
protracted industrial action that started in March.

On Tuesday, the leadership of the union insisted that Nigerian
universities are not ready to re-open.

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