BENUE GOVT APPROVES PARTIAL RE-OPENING OF SCHOOLS
Benue State Executive Council has approved partial re-opening of schools in compliance with recommendations of the Presidential Tax Force on COVID-19.
The State Executive Council has also approved a Public Private Partnership, (PPP) arrangement for the management of the Makurdi Modern Market.
Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mrs. Ngunan Addingi, who brief newsmen after the state executive meeting preaided by Governor Samuel Ortom, said the schools would be re-opened for primary six pupils and students in JSS 3 as well as SS3.
The information commissioner, said that the Action Committee on COVID-19 would further meet with the Ministry of Education to work out modalities on protocols to be observed and a date for the re-opening of schools agreed on.
Mrs. Addingi, said the state Executive Council also approved a request for the 2019 and 2020 International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, Assisted Rice and Cassava Value Chain Development Programme.
She stated that the Benue State Government would pay its counterpart funding for the programme so that farmers in the state especially in six local government areas could access funding for rice and cassava farming.
Benue State Executive Council has approved partial re-opening of schools in compliance with recommendations of the Presidential Tax Force on COVID-19.
The State Executive Council has also approved a Public Private Partnership, (PPP) arrangement for the management of the Makurdi Modern Market.
Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mrs. Ngunan Addingi, who brief newsmen after the state executive meeting preaided by Governor Samuel Ortom, said the schools would be re-opened for primary six pupils and students in JSS 3 as well as SS3.
Mrs. Addingi, said the state Executive Council also approved a request for the 2019 and 2020 International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, Assisted Rice and Cassava Value Chain Development Programme.
She stated that the Benue State Government would pay its counterpart funding for the programme so that farmers in the state especially in six local government areas could access funding for rice and cassava farming.
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