The Kaduna State Government has directed all public schools in the state to start operating four days a week to enable workers to focus on agriculture.
Although the state is being ravaged by banditry, kidnappings, and killings, the state government claimes that the new policy was aimed at enhancing productivity as it would allow workers to focus on their families, and improve work-life balance.
The directive came just as schools reopened on January 10 for the second term of the 2021/2022 academic session.
The Commissioner for Education, Halima Lawal, gave the directive in Kaduna on Sunday, 9 January, in a notice for school resumption for the second term of the new academic session, The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The commissioner further advised administrators and proprietors of public and private schools and other learning centers, including Islamiyya and Madrasas, to sustain school-based security committees set up to ensure the safety of students in schools.
She stated that the academic calendar would be adjusted to ensure coverage of the curriculum for the academic session.
Recall that Mr. El-Rufai’s government had on December 1 begun the transition to a four-day working week.
A statement by Muyiwa Adekeye, the governor’s media aide, had explained that the new measure would eventually affect the organized private sector in Kaduna.
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