Our Schools Are Due for Reopening -By Adebayo Adeleke

Coronavirus broke the knee of every nation, rendering them powerless. All corners of the world seem to be lifeless in such a way that all sectors are affected, mostly economy and education. And for education, it’s now a disabled orphan of a forgotten biology.

More than six months now, our schools were closed because of Coronavirus. Before the closure, ASUU went on strike. Many a student thought the industrial action was like the normal norm until the situation is now eating future like termite eating abandoned wood. Ambitions are crippled, visions are shattered.

“An idle hand is a devil’s workshop,” they say. Things have fallen apart. Invest 40k to get 80k within an hour is now rampant, our younger sisters have tired us with pregnancy cases. Still, all is well?

However, everything can be good again. Never give up is our daily song. But that, if all necessary measures in place. We mean construction of good lecture rooms, equipping our labs with modern tools, create a avenue for adequate research and provision of preventive measures against the virus.

It saddens heart, our schools should have been one of the safest places of all time, in terms of having an account of everyone that moves in and out of the school. Unfortunately, this is not so because a school can have 10 to 20 entrance, even some are open fields where anyone moves in and out without being questioned.

At this point, I believe it is not the virus that is keeping us out of the school because lot of schools have resumed in other countries, rather it is delinquency of our government who has made educational sector worst. If all this are put in place, maybe we won’t be staying at home this long and brighter future will be ours.

Adebayo Adeleke is a student journalist and student of English Language at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.