Officials at the Academic Planning Unit who may have been in contact with the late director of the unit, Dr Michael Omoighe, should go for Covid-19 testing, the Management of Yaba College of Technology has said.
Omoighe died on Sunday due to complications from COVID-19.
A statement seen by Grassroots.ng form the Academic Board of the institution, titled, ‘Academic Board Decision on Review of Resumption of Academic Activities and Modalities for lectures,’ said the college would resort to online teaching immediately.
“Students should vacate the hostels latest by Thursday, January 28, 2021. Management will make arrangement to decontaminate the College in due course. The Academic Planning Unit should be closed down for two weeks; all staff of the unit should go on isolation and carry out COVID-19 test.”
The statement added that the Medical Centre of the College would be closed for two weeks and thereafter disinfected.
The Head of Public Relations in the College, Mr Joe Ejiofor, said, “The college is not closed; what the management did for the preventive measure was to close down the medical centre and department of Academic Planning Unit and it is just for a week, pending when it will be decontaminated.”