INTRO: The screening test for the 72nd Regular Course of Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) earlier scheduled to hold on 30th May, 2020 has been postponed indefinitely. The Registrar of the Academy, Brigadier General A A Aboaba while advising applicants to keep tabs on the development of a new date gave the reasons for the postponement as follows:
#1. Covid-19 Pandemic: The NDA screening test was reported to be postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging the world. The disease thrives by human to human contacts which the screening test is bound to engender through pooling together of the participants in the test. Hence, in the interest of safety, the screening test was postponed indefinitely.
#2. In Obedience to the Ban on Inter-State Movements by the Federal Government: This is another reason given by the Brigadier General for the postponement of NDA screening test. Applicants to the screening test are spread across the states of the federation, and their movements to their respective centres for the screening test will definitely violate the inter-state movement restrictions by the Federal Government in attempts to contain the spread of the deadly Coronavirus in Nigeria. In the words of Brigadier General Aboaba, “due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent measures put in place by the Federal Government to prevent further spread through interstate lockdown and restrictions on travels, the screening test is hereby postponed….” It should be recalled that with effect from May 4, 2020, the Federal Government banned inter-state movements in Nigeria in order to contain the spread of Coronavirus.
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