Olagbemiro , in an interview with our correspondent , said the private universities had big campuses with small population which would give room for social distancing .
He maintained that resumption would be done in phases , adding that university laboratories also needed to be opened for researches to take place.
“Once we are given the green light , we will put everything needed in place . We have big campuses with small population . We don’ t want to resume fully , we want to do it in phases whereby the year one and graduating students can resume to take their final exams after which the year two and three will follow suit .
“We need the universities to open their laboratories so we can do researches in them . You can ’t close universities and say you want to do research .”
He said it was necessary to take cognizance of COVID -19 while he noted that everyone needed to learn to live with it.
“It is important that we are careful because of COVID - 19 ; of course , it will stay with us for a long time but we have to provide screening , face mask , sanitisers , temperature checker and the likes for our staff and students ,” Olagbemiro said.
He also appealed to NUC to consider their request to reopen schools .
“We have written to NUC, they should look in to our request and see if it is visible for us to open our universities . We are also job providers and we need to pay salaries ,” Olagbemiro said .
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