The Kwara State Government has ordered the closure of schools across four local government areas due to escalating insecurity in certain communities.
This decision was announced by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Kwara State wing, on Wednesday.
In a circular issued and obtained by Channels Television, NUT Chairman Yusuf Agboola detailed the shutdown of schools in Isin, Irepodun, Ifelodun, and Ekiti LGAs.
Agboola explained that the union was following directives from the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development after the government raised alarms about fresh security threats in Kwara South.
“Comrade chairmen, this is to inform you and, through you, all schools in the above local governments of the instruction to close down all schools with immediate effect until further notice,” the circular stated.
“This decision was occasioned by the security challenges ravaging the area and the efforts of the government to control the situation. Treat this information as important and with the urgency it deserves, as it emanated from the ministry,” the circular read.
Agboola assured school heads and teachers that further directives would be communicated as the situation develops.
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