COVID-19: Lagos to sanction schools defying closure order 

The Lagos State Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA) has condemned owners of private primary and secondary schools for reopening their house institutions in violation of a directive for the closing of schools by the state government.

A statement from the office of the OEQA Director-General warned school owners to desist from reopening their schools under whatever guise, saying the act risks exposing pupils to contracting COVID-19.

The statement signed by OEQA spokesman Mr Olaniran Emmanuel said the state government further warned that any school caught flouting the directive of the Federal and the Lagos State Governments on school closure would be heavily sanctioned.

The Federal Government had ordered the closure of schools across the country to curtail exposure to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) among students because of their vulnerability and inability to observe social distancing.

Source: The SUN.