Public secondary schools will be reopened on
Monday, September 26th, two years after
they were closed due to Boko Haram
insurgency.
The public schools were shut in March, 2014,
after suspected terrorists attacked a school
in neighbouring Yobe. The government
reopened the primary schools in 2015 but
could not do so with the secondary schools
because they had been taken over by IDPs
The state Commissioner for Education, Alhaji
Inuwa Kubo, who disclosed this yesterday in
Maiduguri, said that Internally Displayed
Persons (IDPs) occupying the schools had
been relocated to allow for resumption of
academic activities.
He added that all the structures in the
schools had been repaired to provide
conducive environment for teaching and
learning.
"I wish to announce that on Sept. 26,
all public schools are going to be re-
opened.
I want to state that
government has repaired all the
structures damaged by the IDPs in the
schools, to ensure comfort for the
returning students.
Parents and
guardians should please make sure
that they send their children back to
school," he said.
The Commissioner described as unfortunate,
the actions of proprietors of private schools
who took undue advantage of the
development to hike their school fees.
"We understand that some of them
have taken undue advantage of the
closure of public schools to hike
school fees; we will not allow the
situation to continue. We are going to
visit the schools to find out how much
they are charging and how much they
are paying their teachers."
Source: Daily Trust
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