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By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo There are good schools, but many of the private schools are jokes. Petty traders who left pure-water businesses have opened schools. They are restless for profit. The school curricula are shiny without substance. School inspectors are either absent or have sold themselves for plates of porridge. At every point, parents are
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Kano State Government has urged proprietors of private schools to reduce school fees by 25 and 30 per cent for the 2019/2020 Third Term academic session. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Sanusi Kiru, stated this in a statement signed by Aliyu Yusuf, the Public Relations Officer of the ministry, on Thursday in Kano. Kiru said
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The Plateau Chapter of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has decried the proliferation of private schools in the state, describing the trend as worrisome.
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By Adeola Badru Oyo State Government has warned private school owners to desist from demanding illegal fees from students who are at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chairman, Oyo State Teaching Service Commission, TESCOM, Pastor Akinade Alamu, stated this on a radio programme in Ibadan while answering questions pertaining to developments on the
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By Francis Efe – Warri National Vice President of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPS, South-South, Dr Akpeme Ochukwu, has faulted the compulsory fumigation of schools before resumption as directed by the state governments, stressing that it does not kill COVID-19. Recall that the Delta State government announced that final year students
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The Commissioner for Education, Abia, Dr Kanelechi Nwangwa, says the state government will not go back on its decision to shutdown substandard private schools. Nwangwa told the Newsmen in Umuahia on Wednesday that the government was committed to ensuring quality education. He said that the state government had already directed unregistered and sub-standard private schools
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Adefisayo said in a statement released on Tuesday that the approval for the private schools was part of efforts to entrench inclusiveness in the education sector.
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Niger government has closed down over 2,000 privates schools in Suleja Local Government Area and other parts of the state for operating below government approved standard.
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The Sokoto State Ministry for Basic and Secondary Education has closed three private schools for non-compliance with the guidelines for establishing schools.
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The state government has been preoccupied with reforming and managing private sector participation in the education sector
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