As Nigeria gradually eases out after prolonged lockdown to contain the devastating impact of COVID-19, government has been called..
As Nigeria gradually eases out after prolonged lockdown to contain the devastating impact of COVID-19, government has been called upon to classify teachers as “essential workers” to enable the country guarantee continuous educational service delivery during the pandemic.
Labour leader and a member of National Institute Kuru Jos, Comrade Issa Aremu made the case for teachers as essential services in his remark at the Virtual 4th Edition of Annual Ramadan Lecture in honour of his late wife, Hadjia Hamdalat Aremu. He called for an immediate impact assessment of the lock down on education, saying that, “before the pandemic, the United Nations Children’s Fund indicated that the population of out of school children in Nigeria has risen from 10.5 million to 13.2 million, the highest in the world.”
According to him, “COVID-19 had once again exposed the underdevelopment of educational infrastructure and the inherent inequalities between the education of the children of well having parents and mass of children in abandoned public schools.”
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