Entrance examination into secondary schools in Kaduna State will hold on Nov. 7.
Primary schools in the state will resume for a new session on Nov. 8, while secondary schools will resume on Nov. 9 after they were locked as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Commissioner for Education, Shehu Muhammad, said in a statement issued in Kaduna on Monday that tertiary institutions in the state resumed on Monday.
Muhammad said the secondary schools’ entrance examination would be jointly conducted by the Ministry of Education and the Schools Quality Assurance Authority.
He said candidates would be required to present their passport photographs and birth certificates before writing the examination.
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As was initially done in the earlier phase of resumption, administrators of public and private schools must continue to comply with all COVID-19 safety protocols which include daily temperature checks; compulsory wearing of face masks and provision of handwashing facilities,’’ he stated.
He added that the use of hand sanitisers and the observation of other safety protocols as listed by the state’s COVID-19 task force, including the running of two streams in the schools, must be adhered to.
