{"id":26825,"date":"2020-07-01T14:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26825"},"modified":"2020-07-01T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:20:22","slug":"nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian govt speaks on reopening of tertiary institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said there was no plan yet to reopen tertiary institutions in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sani Aliyu, the National Coordinator of PTF, stated this when he appeared on Raypower FM on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that at the moment, the PTF was concerned with measures to contain community transmission of the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu said the government realized that reopening of tertiary institutions, bars, restaurants and other social activities\u201dcould encourage community transmission of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we have taken pragmatic measures to ensure we do not lose a whole year in terms of primary to secondary school transition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said there was no plan yet to reopen tertiary institutions in the country. Dr. Sani Aliyu, the National Coordinator of PTF, stated this when he appeared on Raypower FM on Tuesday. He pointed out that at the moment, the PTF was concerned with measures to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":26826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1453,1451],"class_list":["post-26825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-coronavirus-in-nigeria","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian govt speaks on reopening of tertiary institutions - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said there was no plan yet to reopen tertiary institutions in the country.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian govt speaks on reopening of tertiary institutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said there was no plan yet to reopen tertiary institutions in the country.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-01T14:20:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Dr-Sani-Aliyu-1024x796-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"796\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian govt speaks on reopening of tertiary institutions\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-01T14:20:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions\"},\"wordCount\":114,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Dr-Sani-Aliyu-1024x796-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"COVID-19.\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-speaks-on-reopening-of-tertiary-institutions\",\"name\":\"Nigerian govt speaks on reopening of tertiary institutions - 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