SCHOOLS IN BORNO STATE TO RE-OPEN AFTER TWO YEARS OF CLOSURE

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 :LIB
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE