After seven months of COVID-19 pandemic holiday in Maiduguri, all schools across the state have fully resumed school. The headmaster of Budum Primary School in Maiduguri, Muhammad Ali, said that he’s happy that schools have fully resumed and parents have sent their children to school and children are happy to resume.

“Ninety percent (90%) of the population of the students have resumed only ten percent (10%) did not resume, but we are hopeful that they too will resume because no reasonable father or mother will allow his children to remain at while others are going to school.” He said.

He went on to say that all necessary COVID-19 preventive measures have been put in place, teaches have also fully resumed and they have started classes.

Binta Lawan, vice-principal of Gamboru Junior Secondary School, said that the number of students who have resumed school is appreciative and she never thought that students will come in numbers because students mostly don’t come on the first week of resumption.

“Students have been sitting at home for precisely seven months or so and that’s why they all come to school now when they heard that all schools will be reopened on Monday 26th October 2020.” She said.

She continued to advise students to pay attention to their studies and give total blackout to negativity as knowledge holds a greater position in life and can open doors for progress.

A junior secondary school student, Falmata Audu, said that she is tired of staying at home for months without school, but she is happy that schools have fully resumed school and she will continue to come to school until she finishes secondary school.