The Minster of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, has directed all public and private
schools to remain in section during the elections.
The minster gave these directives during a meeting with the Commissioners of
Education from the 36 states in Nigeria.
Mr. Shekarau noted that a lot of time had already been wasted by many schools as a
result of the Ebola crisis in 2014.
He said the elections were not enough reason for the government to close down
schools and urged parents to disregard any rumour or unfounded statement that
could make them insist that the schools be closed and their children released to
them.
He also directed all schools on mid-term break to suspend such and resume
immediately and also ordered those planning to go on mid-term break to put it on
hold.
“It is our belief that we have had elections in the past and schools were in session
and in view of the fact that this is just happening almost second term and we have
suffered a lot of loss of time during the last Ebola crisis and many schools are
battling to catch up the lost period,” he said
He called on the state governments to ensure the provision of adequate security to
ensure the security of the students whose schools were near polling stations especially
the boarding schools whose premises are being used as polling stations
He directed all the state commissioners of education to ensure strict compliance with
the directive warning that the federal government would mete out appropriate
sanctions to any erring school.
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