Adamawa government has extended resumption of schools by two weeks following the submerging?of 89 schools in floods, Mr Gabriel Hamman-Adama, the Commissioner for Education, has said.
The Commissioner added that 45 other schools had been converted to camps for people displaced by the flood.
?He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Yola that the schools were earlier scheduled to resume on Monday.
“About 89 primary and secondary schools are seriously submerged in the flood to the extent that you cannot get to these schools as at now,” Hamman-Adama said.?
The commissioner explained that the development had forced the ministry to shift the Monday resumption date for government schools by two weeks.?
“We have held a meeting with stakeholders and resolved that the initial resumption date of Sept. 17 be shifted to Oct. 2.
“If the flood water did not recede in October, we would be forced to merge students whose schools were submerged and those whose schools were converted to camps with schools that were not affected by the flood,’’ he said.
NAN reports that the annual flooding in Adamawa became worse this year because of the release of water from Lagdo Dam in neighboring Cameroon.
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