The Abia State government has announced that schools in the state will resume for the 2024/2025 academic year on Wednesday, September 23. According to the PUNCH, the Commissioner for Information and Culture in the state, Prince Okey Kanu, who disclosed this while briefing journalists on the outcome of this week’s State Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Alex Otti on Monday, said the postponement of the resumption date was due to the national public holiday on the previous resumption date of Monday, September 16.....CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
The commissioner also disclosed that the state’s teachers’ training programme will recommence from September 11 to 20, 2024, to cover the remaining batch of 1,800 master trainers.
Kanu revealed that the training programme is part of a wider agenda of the state government to reposition the education sector and forms part of the protocol for the resumption of school for the 2024/2025 academic year.
He said, “It will be recalled that 200 teachers were trained last week, and this time around, the training will be held in three locations within the state, including Aba, Umuahia, and Ohafia zones.”
