1,500 schools closed in N/East – TRCN
Professor Olusegun Ajiboye, The Registrar/Chief Executive of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), on Thursday said over 1,500 schools had been forced to close in the North East due to insurgency.
He also said that over 910 schools had either been damaged or destroyed, boting also that 2, 295 teachers had been killed between 2009 and 2022.
While speaking at the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) National Delegates Conference in Ibadan Ajiboye stated this.
He said, “Government should implement fully the safe schools’ declaration guidelines endorsed by Nigeria in 2015 and ratified by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
“Attacks on education create a ripple effect, setting in motion a range of negative impacts such as loss of education, early marriage, early pregnancy, and stigma associated with sexual violence and children born from rape all of which can dramatically affect female students’ futures,” he said.
The registrar added that 1.2million people required emergency education in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.
(Daily Trust)
