Private school stakeholders raise alarm over high pregnancy rate among students

Date: 2020-09-19

Parents, teachers and proprietors of private schools in Kwara state on Friday protested against continued closure of schools by the state government over COVID-19 pandemic.

The people, who carried placards with such messages as "Kwara school proprietors call for immediate school reopening", "Mr President, tell Kwara governor to reopen our schools now", "Schools in other states are opened, why not Kwara", during the protest in Ilorin, argued that the long closure of schools had ruined the lives of many of their wards, saying that some of the female ones had been impregnated.

"The over five months long holiday occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic has caused lots of atrocities of different dimensions among the student. Many of the female students are already pregnant due to idleness while their male folks have been badly influenced by ills in the society", one of the parents said.

The protesters, who included members of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), accused the state government of a deliberate plan to 'kill' private schools by the stringent reopening protocols and conditions the state asked them to put in place.

The angry protesters said that the continued closure of schools had worsened their socio-economic lives, adding that they now live at the mercy of family members and friends.

Addressing the protesters, state chairman of the NAPPS, Dr Rahaman Lateef, he said the association is not folding its arms, adding that it has held series of negotiations with the state government on the safe reopening of schools and teachers' welfare.

Dr Lateef also said that "NAPPS, as the representative of private schools in the state, has engaged the government and I am glad to tell you that the ministry of education has designed two school calendars and submitted same to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and anytime from now the governor would announce the reopening of schools in the state".

The NAPPS boss advised the state government, saying that, "it is for it to announce the likely date of resumption so that our schools in the state would heighten their preparation for resumption.

"The state government should as a matter of urgency, consider the plight of teachers in private schools by reopening the schools immediately, because their lives have been turned upside down in the last six months of inactivity, lack of jobs and salaries.

"Thirdly, COVID-19 should no longer be an excuse for the delayed reopening of schools as it has come to stay and people must learn to live with it. Thank God the SSS three students wrote their examinations without a spike in COVID-19 infections.

"Government should extend COVID-19 safety kits to private school children as we are nurturing Nigerians children whose parents have paid their taxes to the government", he said.

He assured the protesters of communicating their grievances to the education Commissioner for onward transmission to the governor.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulrasaq Alaro     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Communication Network Support Services     Millennium Development Goals     REO CAKES     Kwara Polytechnic     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Lucky Omoluwa     Manzuma     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Saka Aleshinloye     Jebba     Gbajabiamila     Eleja     Lanre Badmas     Kazeem Oladepo     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     Risikat Lawal     Universal Basic Education Commission     Cassava Growers\' Association     Busari Alabi Alausa     Raji AbdulRasaq     Alabere     Yunus Oniboki     Mukhtar Shagaya     Mustapha Akanbi     Saheed Popoola     Bello Oyedepo     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Afeyin-Olukuta     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Ayo Adeyemi     Onilorin     Ibrahim Abikan     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Oko Erin     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Kazeem Gbolagade     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Nnazua     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Kaiama     Valsolar     African Democratic Congress     Isin     Yinka Aluko     Apado     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Segun Ogunsola     Pakata Patriots     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Ndama Al-hassan     Farouk Salim     March 18     Femi Agbaje     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Democracy Day     Fatimoh Lawal     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Mumeen Lah     Bature Bello     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Ojo Isekuse     Ilorin South     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Olaiya Zuberu     Curfew     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Pakata Development Association     Kanu Agabi     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Maryam Nurudeen     Ishaq Abdulkarim    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abatemi-Usman     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Bashiru Makama     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Bayo Onimago     Bolakale Kawu     Share-Tsaragi     Benin Republic     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Monkey Pox     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Saeedat Aliyu     Gambari     Femtech     N-Power     Ajeigbe     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Damilola Yusuf     Quran     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Eghe Igbinehin     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Atiku Abubakar     Madawaki     Split Diamond Interchange     Bayer AG     Suleiman Mora Omar     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Shettima     HICA     Aso Ofi     Kwara 2015     Muhammed Danjuma     Ado Bayero     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Jawondo     Tunde Kazeem     Saheed Akinwumi     Kwarareports.com     Dele Belgore     Dele Momodu     Tunji Oyawoye     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Isiaq Khadeejah     Pacify Labs     Aro Yahaya     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Council Of The Wise     Bolakale Saka     Emmanuel Bello     Usman Alkali Baba     Abatemi Usman     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Village Alive Development Association     Rafiu Ibrahim     Mope Dasuki Belgore     College Of Education     All Peoples Party     Bilikisu Oniyangi     First Lady     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     NNPP     Jide Oyinloye     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Boko Haram     Umaru Saro     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Ndama Al-hassan     Illyasu Abdullahi     Hamid Bobboyi     Afolayan     Elerinjare     Ado Ibrahim