February 15 to 19th as a mid-term break for students of all the Unity
Schools across the country. The Minister who revealed this on Friday at
the ”7th edition of the Ministerial News Briefing” in Abuja, said the
midterm is to enable parents of the students have time to go and cast
their votes during the elections.
“Our students in unity schools are not of voting age but we adjusted
the mid-term break to make it fall within the elections period. The date
for the mid-term break will be from Friday, Feb. 15 to Tuesday, Feb.
19. This is for only unity schools in the country. We are not shutting
down other schools. The essence of this break is to enable parents have
maximum time to go and cast their votes and have the freedom to bring
their children and wards back to school. Even if the child is not of
voting age, the parent is of voting age. The break is only for
presidential elections.”
“There is no break for governorship elections,” he said.
While reacting to the strike that was called off by the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Feb. 7, Adamu commended everyone
involved in the negotiations.
“All was for the development of the country’s educational system.
“I am happy to announce that ASUU has called off its strike.
“In spite of my anger and anxiety with ASUU, I must also commend
their patriotism and public spiritedness because the last few weeks were
about the struggle for education system and not their allowances,” he
said.
The minister expressed optimism that Academic Staff Union of
Polytechnic (ASUP) would also suspend its two months strike before
Monday.
