All schools in Nigeria should be fumigated before they open, the House of Representatives stated.
The legislators made the statement in a letter to the minister of education, Mallam Adamu Adamu.
The lawmakers stated that the students across the country should be made aware of the dangers posed by COVID-19
The House of Representatives has said all schools in Nigeria whether public or private should be fumigated before they are reopened.
The legislators made the statement in a letter to the minister of education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, by its committee on education, The Nation reports.
House of Reps said students in rural areas should join online teaching. The House said students in the country should be made aware of the dangers posed by COVID-19 and possible ways of protecting themselves from being infected.
The lawmakers also urged the minister to reach students in rural areas with online teaching which was recently introduced to keep the students busy.
The management of schools across the country were asked by the lawmakers to promote sanitary measures such as the washing of hands and good hygiene.
Meanwhile, the federal government has disclosed that schools nationwide will soon be opened without giving any particular date when the reopening of schools will take place.
The minister of state for education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, made the disclosure on Thursday, May 21, during the briefing by the presidential task force on COVID-19.
He, however, said that the reopening of schools will not be done in two weeks as being speculated in some quarters.
The minister stated that the schools would be reopened when the safety of the school children could be guaranteed.
He noted that the government was being careful not to endanger the lives of the school children.
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