The Niger State government on Tuesday announced that has abolished any corporal punishment given to student by their teachers or seniors in school.

This Niger Strate government in collaboration with UNICEF said they want to eliminate corp[oral punishment in both the private and public schools across the state.

Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Education, Mr. Abubakar Aliyu, during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna.

Aliyu made this known after inaugurating a one-day stakeholders’ sensitization on the findings of the UNICEF research on school-related gender-based violence.

It also focused on the research and implementation of the policy on the abolishment of corporal punishment in public and private schools in the state.

He said that eliminating corporal punishment in schools would encourage the enrollment of children in school, especially, the enrollment of the girl-child.

“In keeping pace with the facts of the finding of the research, Niger State Ministry of Education, while recognizing the negative implication of violence against children in school on enrollment, retention and completion issued a circular to all public and private primary and secondary schools abolishing corporal punishment,” he said.

The Permanent Secretary urged the key stakeholders in the education sector to understand the implication of violence and work collectively to prevent the menace toward better education for children.

“I charge you all as advocates to ensure that the policy statement on the abolishment of corporal punishment is implemented not only in our schools but our corporate lives,” he said.

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Useless governor of a dead state

I am totally in support of this. I wish this could be replicated all over the country. Corporal Punishment is archaic and bad.

This governor is just useless . The kids attending Islamiyya are flogged and punished for not adhering to their imams , but western education which is far more productive than any Islamic education is now restricted from any form of discipline ...na wah for Nigeria and misplaced values