Despite the Oyo State government’s directives for schools to
reopen in the state on Monday, reports have it that schools have remained
closed. Both teaching and non-teaching staff were absent from the schools
visited as the gates remained shut.
Students were seen already dressed in their school uniforms
in the morning but they could not enter the school premises. Both primary and
secondary schools’ gates were not opened after four weeks of closure, the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The State Government had announced the re-opening of public
schools in the state with effect from Monday. This directive was contained in a
statement signed by Mr Toye Arulogun, the state’s Commissioner for
Information,Culture and Tourism.
According to Arulogun, the State Government decided to
reopen the schools with effect from Monday July 11, excluding the 17 schools
that participated in the June 6 violent demonstration.
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