Borno State government said, on Monday, it would re-open public secondary schools next week, two years after they were closed due to Boko Haram insurgency.
The state’s Commissio-ner for Education, Inuwa Kubo, said in Maiduguri that Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, occupying the schools had been relocated to allow for resumption of academic activities.

Kubo said repairs had been carried out on all the structures, adding “I wish to announce that on September 26, all public schools are going to be re-opened. Parents and guardians should please make sure that they send their children back to school.”

He decried the prolonged closure of the schools and the fact that proprietors of private schools took undue advantage of the development to charge arbitrary fees.
Kubo said: “We understand that some of them have taken undue advantage of the closure 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.”

The schools were shut in March 2014, after terrorists attacked a school in neighbouring Yobe.

Primary schools were re-opened in 2015, but the secondary schools were taken over by IDPs.