Major roads in Nsukka town, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, on Tuesday witnessed increased human and vehicular movements as schools resumed for the second term after Christmas vacation, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
As early as 7.am., Enugu road, Ogurugu road, Odenigbo road, University road, Obeachara road among others witnessed heavy traffic gridlock as parents and guardians took their children and wards to their schools within the town.
Mr. Hyacinth Ezema, a father whose children are schooling at the University Primary School, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, expressed appreciation to God who made it possible for his children to be alive and resume school in 2022.
“I am grateful to God the creator of the world who sustained our lives and provided for me so that my children will join other children to resume school today.
“I am rushing to take them to school so that I will return home to prepare and go to the office,” he said.
Some schools visited by NAN included: Urban Girls Secondary School, Fortune Secondary School, Nsukka, Model Primary school, Nsukka, Township Primary School, Nsukka, Urban Boys Secondary, and Ejiofor Secondary School.
In all these schools visited, attendance is encouraging and teachers were seen supervising pupils and students to clean up their classrooms and school compounds.
Mr. Desmond Ozioko, the Principal of Fortune Secondary School, said academic activity would start on Tuesday as soon as the students finished tidying up the school compound and classrooms.
“I am impressed on the number of students that attended school on this first day of resumption, as soon as they finished clean up, teachers will enter their classes to teach them,” he said.
Ozioko said the school had put measures in place to ensure that COVID-19 protocols are maintained by ensuring personal hygiene, physical distancing as well as wearing of face masks.
“All students, staff and visitors coming into the school compound must wear face mask and wash hands at the gate.
“Some students who are not wearing face masks today, l have told them to come to school tomorrow with their face masks or l will send them home,” he said. (NAN)
