The Adamawa Government has extended the resumption of primary and secondary schools for the third term academic session to 13 May to enable the government to vaccinate children against measles.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Aisha Umar, announced this in a statement on Monday in Yola.
Ms Umar explained that the pupils and students were scheduled to resume today, 6 May but the resumption was extended to 13 May to contain the measles outbreak in parts of the state.
According to her, the disease had already affected some children.
