Students and pupils have been directed to return to school on Monday, May 17 by the Kano State Government because the celebration of Eid-el-Fitr has ended.
However, 36 boarding schools closed on the order of the government early in the year over issues of security forms part of the exception.
In a statement released by the Commissioner for Education, Malam Muhammad Sanusi-Kiru through the ministry’s spokesman, Mr Aliyu Yusuf, stated that students and pupils who don’t follow the fresh directive will be punished.
The Ministry has made appropriate surveillance arrangements to ensure compliance, said Sanusi-Kiru.
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He cautioned that the administration would not fold its arms and look about, as students and parents wanted to return to school on a suitable day.
“All boarding school students are to return to their schools on Sunday May 16, while Day schools students are to return to their schools on May 17,’’ the commissioner was quoted as saying.
“Government is committing lots of resources to facilitate good learning and teaching environment.
“There is, therefore, the need for a reciprocating gesture by parents and students to return to school on stipulated dates,’’ the commissioner stressed.
In other news, Ahmad Abubakar Idris, a 300 level student of the Kano University was found dead five days after he was declared missing.
According to reports, Ahmad, a 22 year old student of the Department of Physics was no where to be found last Saturday, May 1, 2021 when he left campus with his two friends to buy a mobile phone in a market in Kano (Farm Centre).
The remains of Ahmad was found at a sand excavation site in Mariri at the outskirts of Kano. This comes after police arrested one of the colleagues who went with him to the market before he went missing.
Source; NaijaOnPoint.com
