Kwara shuts 88 illegal schools- Tribune
Kwara Commissioner for Education and
Human Capital Development, Alhaji Musa Yeketi, said on Thursday in
Ilorin that the government has shut 88 illegal schools in two months.
Delivering his address at the 2016 Day
of the National Association of Proprietors of Private School, Yeketi
threatened to shut more such schools in pursuit of standard education in
the state.
He acknowledged the impact of private
schools in complementing the state government’s efforts, and appealed to
owners of the illegal schools to regularise their operations.
He asked those with sub-standard facilities to upgrade or risk sanction.
Meanwhile, NAPPS National President, Dr
Sally Adukwu-Bolujoko, who was represented by the association’s
Financial Secretary, Temitope Ajibola, asked government to eradicate
multiple taxations on private schools.
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