HIJAB CONTROVERSY: REOPEN THE SCHOOLS NOW

Date: 2021-03-14

Former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has called on the Kwara State Government to reopen all the schools that were closed down in the wake of the controversy over the wearing of hijabs in some mission schools without further delay.

In a statement today, the former commissioner for education in the state noted that the students have lost so much teaching time to the lockdown forced by the pandemic and should therefore not be allowed to suffer further as a result of the hijab issue.

"Under the best circumstance, the big concern for everyone was how to recover the precious time that the children had lost to COVID. Therefore, we cannot afford to keep the children out of school even for one further day if we truly care about their education," he said.

Abdullahi appealed to all concerned to put the interests of the children above all other considerations. "This hijab thing is nothing new. The contention over the identity of mission schools is also not new. We have managed these issues over the years without allowing them to escalate to the level of forcing the closure of schools. Some people are either mismanaging or exploiting this issue.

"Is the government suggesting that parents of the Muslim children would prefer for the education of their children to suffer rather than allow them to attend schools without hijab? Or are they saying that the Christian parents would rather have their children stay at home than to allow some Muslim children to wear hijab in the school? I don't think so. And this is why it is difficult to understand the rationale behind the decision of government to keep the schools closed indefinitely."

Abdullahi therefore appeals to all concerned to put the education of the children in the affected schools above all other considerations and call on the state government to reopen the schools without further delay.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ayodele Olaosebikan     Olabanji Orilonishe     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Afeyin-Olukuta     Omotosho     Nigerian Medical Association     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Bio Ibrahim     Hakeem Idris     Valsolar Consortium     Michael Nzwekwe     ASUU     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Bankole Omisore     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Innocent Okoye     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Donatus Ejidike     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Seed Technologies     Ajakaye     Ifelodun     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Kwara Liberation Group     Wale Oladepo     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Musa Yeketi     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Yusuf Mubarak     Ibrahim Oniye     Elesie Of Esie     Dorcas Afeniforo     Ahmed Dankaya     Afolayan     GGDSS Pakata     Ilota     Yusuf A. Usman     Abdulwaheed Musa     Oyedepo     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     FERMA     Usman Yunusa     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Inside Kwara     Haleeman Salman     Suwa-Arabs     TIIDELab     Post Utme     Ibrahim Akaje     Sulaiman Gado     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     Magaji Are     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Albert Ogunsola     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Kayode Ishola     CACOVID Palliatives     Idris Amosa Saidu     Odo-Owa     Alabere     FOMWAN     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Kwara South     Adedipe     ER-KANG     Sidikat Alaya     Jani Ibrahim     2017 Budget     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Rex Olawoye    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Odolaye Aremu     Government House     Olabanji Orilonishe     Osuwa     Ibrahim Gambari     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Balogun Ajikobi     Ibrahim Orire     Quran     Kayode Ibrahim     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Offa     Amos Sayo     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Ogidi-Oloje     Isapa     Medview Airlines     Omotoso     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Tafida Of Ilorin     Suleiman Ajadi     Rebecca Bake     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Zainab Abass     Adebayo Salami     Ebola     Musibau Akanji     Ilorin Durbar     Okiki     Ajayi Okasanmi     Sam Onile     Ishola Abdullahi     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     A.O. Belgore     Baba Issa     Radio SBS     Fatimah Abdulkadir     CCEPE     Bilikisu Gambari     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Okeose Christian Cementary     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Oniwa     Ayobami Akanbi     Iponrin     Saheed Alakoso     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Simon Sayomi     Ilorin East     Opobiyi     Isiaq Khadeejah     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Adedipe     March 18     Ayodele Shittu     School Of Nursing     Osinbajo     Sai Kayi     Folorunsho Erubu     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Salman Suleiman     Shonga Farm Project     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Sardauna     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Elewu     Bank Of Industry     NNPP     Folashade Omoniyi     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Air Peace     Kolawole Bashirat