The Parents Teachers Association of the Nigerian-Turkish International Colleges (NTIC), has called on the Nigerian Government to disregard any request for the closure of the schools in the country.
The parents, who made the call on Saturday in Abuja at meeting, said the accusation that the schools were a training ground for terrorist was baseless and unsustainable.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Turkish Government recently asked the Nigerian Government to close down all the Nigerian-Turkish International Colleges (NTIC) in the country.

According to the Turkish Government, the Nigerian-Turkish International Colleges belonged to Fetullah Gulen, accused of sponsoring the July 15 failed military coup in that country.

The country’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Hakan Cakil, said this while hosting the Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Shehu Sani of the APC, who represents Kaduna Central in the house.

Mr. Cakil alleged that the schools belonged to Gulen`s movement, a cult of personality that runs a secretive transitional network aiming to overthrow the Turkish government.

“The accusation is baseless and a slight on us parents and the Nigerian Government,” Hauwa Abubakar, a parent, who has three children in the school, said.

She maintained that the parents know the operators of the schools to their homes and families, adding that they could not have been involved in such practices.
 
Sani Balogun, Vice Chairperson NTIC primary, added that there was something unique in the school and called on the Federal Government to react to the Ambassador`s call.

Shehu Abudulahi, also a parent, however, said that if the school was doing anything wrong, the Federal Government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should investigate.


He urged parents not to be too emotional about the call made by the Ambassador to the extent of dropping names.

He stressed that there was, however, a need to carry along all the 17 NTIC in the country in the fight to ensure that the schools were not closed.

Mr. Abudulahi, a professor, added that the schools were playing very significant role in the development of education in Nigeria and should not be closed unless it was found wanting and culpable.
He said that the school was one of the most secured in the country, adding that even in the hit of Boko Haram activities in the North east, it remained open in Yobe.

He further added that so long as the NTIC had operated within the laws of Nigeria, it should be allowed to remain in operation.

He, therefore, urged the parents to remain resolute in their struggle to ensure that the institutions were not closed.

He also urged the operators of the school to continue preparing for the new school year, saying “there is no shaking.’’

Awulu Awulu, first Education Secretary of the FCT also a parent at the meeting, appreciated the NTIC management, and urged parents to stand by the school in its trying period.

According to him, the call by the Turkish Ambassador for the closure of the NTIC was targeted at parents and not the institution.
He, however, advised that regardless the anger in the parents, they should follow due process in their struggle.

The parents at the meeting were unanimous in saying that they would stand by the NTIC to the end to ensure that it was not closed down as requested by the Ambassador.

The NTIC had been operating in the country in the past 18 years. Some of its old students at the meeting said they would join their parents in backing the institution.

https://www.today.ng/news/national/160279/parents-nigerian-turkish-intl-college-students-decry-call-close-schools

Lalasticlala

Honestly, i feel d FG shld investigate the claim nd the Turkish govt shld back up their claim with evidence.
They don't expect Nigeria as a country to hurriedly close the school because the Turkish govt requested for that without any evidence. No, that can't happen because if it does, we lose our respect as a nation.

Abeg wetin consin me

Turkz problem is dat the funds for the coup was transferred thru Naija, so the best bet is through the Turkish schools. I fear for that country sha.

E no concern me.

Ologogoro

Wait,lemme confirm from ifa

Take them to other international schools na

Lemme join the revolution.

If government hurriedly close the schools jobs will be lost and it will also affect our economy negatively.
Government should investigate if it's a threat to our national security first.

Erdogan dey kolo for this call

But why do they have more affiliations for the North more than the South? I learnt they have schools in Kano,Kaduna and even Yobe but none in the whole of SE/SS and only one in the SW. Do they have other motives aside from making money? Does Yobe and the North in general have more prospects in school business than the south? I don't support the outright closure of the schools as requested by the Turkish ambassador but his allegations are weighty and should not be dismissed with a wave of hand.

tohpahz:
Turkz problem is dat the funds for the coup was transferred thru Naija, so the best best is through the Turkish schools. I fear for that country sha.

Really that means most of the funds is from those schools then,turkish will not raise accusation without veritable fact,they are not NIGERIAN

Erdogan dey para seriously...even today, one Turkish gal wey just return from Cambodia tell me say the guy don order say make dem close all Turkish schools for there...

IDEKEALUMONA:
But why do they have more affiliations for the North more than the South?

how?? I suspect an Ipod youth talking

Nigeria is a sovereign nation, Turkey cannot tell us what to do on our own soil. Erdogan's insecurity may disintegrate His country and give Turkey the Syrian treatment. He should thread cleverly and not out of impulse.

Now they're talking. How do they expect a country to close down the schools just like that?

Back up your claims with evidence, then something may be done about it.

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wetin consign me with Islamabad problem....

I jst taya 4 Nigeria

okies...

No one in my family can afford the tuition of that school ... Just like they say, big man big trouble....

dajan03:
how?? I suspect an Ipod youth talking

In your mind, anybody who is not a 'yes yes' man aka zombie and asks questions is an IPOB youth

Oche211:
Honestly, i feel d FG shld investigate the claim nd the Turkish govt shld back up their claim with evidence.
They don't expect Nigeria as a country to hurriedly close the school because the Turkish govt requested for that without any evidence. No, that can't happen because if it does, we lose our respect as a nation.

Naso

It will be hard for them truly, considering the standard, setup of those schools..

Buh Naija sef porous sha, we need to sit up

Bonapart:
All Muslim country, state, community and villages are all into terrorism. Islam is plague to the world and again
#islamabad

Your brain needs re-examination. Definitely high on weed.

Nigerians preferred Foreign products/services to theirs. see the way d parents are defending the owners as if they follow them to their closets!!!

Our Federal government should look into that very well...we have high unemployment rate already, let's not add to the number o

Expensive skols