Abia postpones school resumption date
Abia State Government has postponed the resumption date for both public and private schools in the state for the 2024/2025 academic session.
Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, who disclosed this during a press briefing on the outcome of this week’s Executive Council meeting in Umuahia, gave a coinciding Muslim holiday as a reason for the postponement.
According to him, schools across the state will now resume on Wednesday, September 23, instead of Monday, September 16, originally scheduled.
This is as he announced that the second batch of training for teachers would commence on September 11 and end on September 20.
According to him, the exercise will be held simultaneously at three centres: Aba, Umuahia, and Ohafia, adding that 1800 teachers are being targeted.
He said the training was part of the ongoing transformation agenda of the current administration in the education sector.
The commissioner said over 200 teachers were trained in the first batch, added that it was part of the protocols for school resumption.
He further announced that the state government had granted a 90-day moratorium to owners of landed property without registration in Aba to register them at the old rate.
