Kwara govt. approves use of hijab in public schools

Date: 2021-02-26

The state government also directs the 10 schools it shut last week over the hijab controversy to reopen on Monday.

The Kwara State Government has approved the use of hijab in all public schools in the state and directed the 10 schools it shut last week to reopen on Monday.

This was disclosed in a statement released by the Secretary to the Kwara State Government, Mamma Jibril, Thursday evening.

Recall that the government, last Friday, directed the temporary closure of 10 grant-aided secondary schools in Ilorin, the state capital, pending the resolution of the controversy on the use of hijab (head covering).

The schools are C&S College, ST. Anthony College, ECWA School, Surulere Baptist Secondary School, Bishop Smith Secondary School, CAC Secondary School, St. Barnabas Secondary School, St. John School, St. Williams Secondary School and St. James Secondary School.

At the meetings held with government, leaders of the Christian and Muslim communities refused to shift ground.

While the Muslim leaders insisted their students should be allowed to use the head covering in accordance with the Nigerian Constitution, their Christian counterparts demanded respect for the 'religious background' of the schools.

Resolution

However, according to its statement on Thursday, the state government said it has considered all the submissions, the education law of the state and prevailing court judgments.

The government said it has paid particular attention to the 'declaratory' nature of the subsisting judgments of the Court of Appeal and their purports.

"Consequently, the government hereby acknowledges and approves the right of the Muslim schoolgirl to wear the hijab, and directs the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development to come up with a uniform hijab for all public/ grant-aided schools, which will be the accepted mode of head covering in schools. Any willing schoolgirl with the approved (uniform) hijab shall have the right to wear same in public/grant-aided schools," he said.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Abdullahi Samari     Bola Shagaya     Flights To Ilorin     GANZY     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Offa     KWASSIP     07039448763     Awwal Jawondo     Popo-Igbonna     Student Learning Support Helpline     08001000100     Temitope Ogunbanke     Shonga Farm Project     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Mohammed Ibrahim     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Alfa Belgore     Ishaq Oloyede     Moses Rahman Popoola     Jebba     Voices Of Tomorrow     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Mohammed Halidu     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Okanlawon Taiwo     Deji Ajani     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Ajidagba     Aminat Ahmed     Okin Biscuits     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Abubakar Aliagan     Ilorin South Constituency     Saraki     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Okin High School     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Ajike People Support Centre     Oyin-Zubair     Federal Allocation     IF-K     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Wahab Issa     Aliyu Muyideen     Oko-Erin     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Saadu Alanamu     Oke-Odo     Alabi Lawal     Local Government Pension Board     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Musbau A. Akanji     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Jaiz Bank     Ojuekun     Maja     Offa Metropolitan Club     Grillo     Agor     Senate Presidency     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Owu Fall     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Babs Iwarere     Ajakaye     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Kayode Issa     ENetSuD     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Naira Redesign     Bibire Ajape    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kamaldeen Ajibade     Muhammed Abdullahi     COVID-19 Palliatives     KFA     George Innih     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Odolaye Aremu     Akeem Lawal     Ahman Pategi     Goodluck Jonathan     Arandun     Kemi Adeosun     Raheem Adaramaja     IYA YUSUF     Niyi Osundare     RTEAN     ER-KANG Mining     Kayode Zubair     Borgu     Makama Of Ilorin     Vasolar Consortium     Olatunji Moronfoye     JAMB     Yusuf Aiyedun     Tunji Moronfoye     Moremi High School     Raymond Olaitan     Patience Jonathan     Mutawalle     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Taofeek Ibraheem     Shettima     Kaiama     T And K FOODS     Ajasse-Ipo     Nnazua     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Al-Ilory     Ahman Patigi     Mubarak Oladosu     Muritala Olarewaju     Amasa     Nigerian Army     Ubandoma     Doyin Awoyale     Kawu     Awili Pedro     Yakubu Gobir     Congress For National Consensus     Moronfoye     Naira Redesign     Amuda Aluko     Turaki     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Egbewole     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Oro Grammar School     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Shehu Salau     Roseline Oni Aremu     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Yusuf Mubarak     Rotimi Oyedepo     Abraham Ojo     IHS     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Gambari     Yinka Aluko     Lawal Jimoh     SAPZ Project     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Just Event Online     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf