Bauchi State has banned co-education at all junior and senior schools.

The bill, passed by the state MPs this week, listed a number of reasons including the need to fight teenage pregnancies and poor performance.

Bauchi MP Aminu Tukur told the BBC that teenagers especially had difficulty controlling their sexual urges.

The BBC's Shehu Saulewa in Bauchi, which is governed by Sharia law, says most state schools are mixed.

He says schools are due to go back next week after the summer holidays.

It is not yet clear when they will have to become single-sex institutions.

Religious leaders within the state's minority Christian population are opposed to the ban, our reporter says.

They argue that schools are not the only places where girls and boys socialise.

Private religious schools will not be subject to the ruling.

Several of Nigeria's Muslim majority northern states introduced Sharia law starting in 2000, despite opposition from Christians, sparking clashes and riots between rival groups.

youngies:

Please poster correct the topic headline asap

youngies:

Hypocrites!!

I expect them to follow it up with separate markets, hospitals, not forgetting that they should endeavour to make female children to live in different streets from the male children so that they won't mix together when they play.

Misplaced priority!!!

morpheus24:

e don start again oh. When some of us start calling for seperation, all of you will start shouting lets hold hand together and make Nigeria great.

Ibime:

I remember that in primary school, if not for a couple of girls in my class, school would have been uncompetitive [b]and I would have gotten lower grades. [/b]This law just shows the digressionary thinking of the Hausa/Fulani.

MC Usman:

Every state has the right to create bye laws as long as they do not contradict the federal laws. If Bauchi State decides to ban mixed schools then so be it. A lots of boys & girls schools are exist in the south so is not a new thing.

In the USA different state have different laws, while some state approved of death penalty & same sex marriage others don’t.

davidylan:

Nigeria is one funny country. When it comes to retrogressive laws we suddenly start hearing of the states quasi-independence from the federal arm . . . the minute it comes to cold hard cash (aka federal allocation), states become appendages of the federal government.

MC Usman:

Every state has the right to create bye laws as long as they do not contradict the federal laws. If Bauchi State decides to ban mixed schools then so be it. A lots of boys & girls schools are exist in the south so is not a new thing.

In the USA different state have different laws, while some state approved of death penalty & same sex marriage others don’t.

ferdiii:

The law of independence from the North I expect is we don't want allocation from federal government of Nigeria that involves monies from beer and oil.Drinking Beer is against Sharia and oil money is from land of prostitution. I heard Mr Goje, Governor of Gombe paid himself N200M and N100M to his deputy as pensions when they are still in offices. Are elected people entitled to pensions?? So adults don't play with sex huh! Northern elite only impoverish their people and chop their hands off with sharia knife. Mother fuckers!

Northern elite only impoverish their people and chop their hands off with sharia knife. Mother fuckers!

Every state has the right to create bye laws as long as they do not contradict the federal laws. If Bauchi State decides to ban mixed schools then so be it. A lots of boys & girls schools are exist in the south so is not a new thing.

In the USA different state have different laws, while some state approved of death penalty & same sex marriage others don’t.