ALEXIS AKWAGYIRAM NIGERIA will allow schools to reopen for pupils due to take graduation exams, a presidential aide has announced, reviving a plan dropped earlier this month due to rising cases of COVID-19. The West African country has reported 40,532 coronavirus infections including 858 deaths and the number of deaths has jumped from 460 since the schools plan was postponed on July 9. But in the last few weeks domestic flights have resumed and a ban on interstate travel was lifted as authorities relax restrictions to open up the economy. "The federal government orders the re-opening schools for secondary school…