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A viral video showing 161 JSS1 students crowded into a single classroom at Turaki Model School in Sokoto has stirred widespread reactions online. Many Nigerians have accused the Governor of Sokoto State of neglecting the welfare of students while focusing on distributing 1,000 Saudi Riyals (about ₦450,000) each to the 3,200 pilgrims from the state who performed the 2025 Hajj as a Sallah gift.

In the video, the students are seen tightly packed together as a man asks them what class they belong to and how many they are. The students respond in unison: “JSS1C — 161.” The footage quickly went viral, prompting debates across social media.

One X user shared the video with the caption:

“161 students packed like sardines in JSS1C at Turaki Model Primary School, Sokoto, and the Governor is busy giving out 1,000 Saudi Riyals (approximately ₦450,000) to each of the 3,200 pilgrims who performed the 2025 Hajj as a Sallah gift.”

The post has continued to draw numerous reactions, with many accusing northern politicians of having misplaced priorities.

Watch the viral video and share your thoughts in the comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jyBNgz4jog?si=lMcroqOebKqMk7Yi

Summary:
A viral video from Turaki Model School in Sokoto shows 161 JSS1 students packed into a single classroom, sparking outrage nationwide. Many Nigerians are criticizing the state government for neglecting education while giving 1,000 Saudi Riyals to thousands of Hajj pilgrims. The incident has prompted widespread debates about priorities and student welfare.

This country en

You go just come online, only for you to see things wey go just dey vex you

And one Mallam somewhere must have collected and pocketed the money meant to provide desks and other school materials for those pupils

Nigeria, A DISGRACED country. There's virtually no facet of our national life that's working optimally, None! Security, Zero, Education, Zero, Good Road, zero. Only politics of rigging.

These are even the ones that managed to go for Western education. May Lugard's soul continue to rot in pieces for joining these backward people with us.

It's better than engaging in Alimajiri nonesense

COMRADES, and the state is governed by apc, is it not shameful? Nigeria supposed to have gone beyond this level nah

At least they’re in school

Jss 1c alone is 161 only God knows how many will be in jss 1 a, b, d and e

The things our leaders and politicians do to us

Painfully some of graduated from the school, went through the same thing
But they rather pile up wealth for their children

Unfortunately, the ones that are not opportune will in turn terrorize them and their children tomorrow

Na like this I take go school na and my life no spoil

Glimpsetv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jyBNgz4jog?si=lMcroqOebKqMk7Yi

Said it before. If there's hellfire, that's where most Nigerian governos will end up.

This is what the poor get from Nigeria.

A few criminals who have stolen from these poor ones have taken their children overseas to have the best and quality education.



We are even talking about these junior ones in secondary. I dare everyone who is feeling uncomfortable with this to visit public universities in this damn disgraced country una go shed tears. The hostels students lives are like pens where animals are kept. Lecture halls are nothing else.



Sometimes early this year, I drove to the University of Port Harcourt at night to see my younger brother, who is currently a student of the university. The condition of the popular Mandela hostels where he lived then was something I couldn't fathom. I looked through the small rooms where students were stacked like prisoners with no wardrobes. Prisoners have a better living conditions that what my eyes saw that night. When I confronted one of the students who was the head boy of the room, he opened up to me about how the university treated them and the new hostels the government built had been taken over by the vice-chancellor, who only allocated the rooms and bedspaces to his boys and people related to him. I vividly remember that during my time it wasn't that worst. A lot of things are going worst than ever in this country.

Lawd have mercy.

Warisdis?

Nigeria Elites God will judge you!

Sonnobax15:

This country en

You go just come online, only for you to see things wey go just dey vex you

And one Mallam somewhere must have collected and pocketed the money meant to provide desks and other school materials for those pupils

How many mallams have ruined Lagos State in the last 26 years of return to democracy, with N3.4 trillion budget squeezed out of the masses in IGR, from N42 billion a quarter of a century ago?

What is the ratio of public schools to private schools in the other southern states

anonimi:
Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner
September 4, 2022

The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.

The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/ratio-of-public-to-private-schools-in-lagos-state-is-one-to-22-%E2%80%95-commissioner/

How is the teacher supposed to know their names and how many teachers are controlling the class? Because I doubt one teacher can handle this amount of pupils especially in rural areas.

Future bandits and Boko Haram

The kind of things we hate to see... Extreme sport

Shame to education ministry in the state

pdppower:
These are even the ones that managed to go for Western education.

May Lugard's soul continue to rot in pieces for joining these backward people with us.

What has Lugard got to do with our own failure in 65 years of independence, to undo what British colonialists did to us?

Why are the people of Sudan/ South Sudan, Bangladesh/ Pakistan, Malaysia/ Singapore not blaming Britain for amalgamating their countries during colonialism

I already knew it would be at the North.
Shame .

Bandits for de salivate now with a big smile on their face if them be girls

Overpopulation with scant infrastructre. In the North even private schools are overcrowed and the worst part is many are sitting on the floor.

This is the major problem of the North.
They fail to develop themselves

Kanu has gone to Sokoto. All eyes on Sokoto for d bad and ugly.
They will soon regret accepting him.
To d post with such heat how r they survivng

iLoveYouToo:
At least they’re in school

no one should blame you

What you get when you vote men into power

How can we have bad leaders from top to bottom

You de talk primary school. What of university. I remember those early G.s.t courses for uni_uyo

Na so them go cramp all departments into one shady hall with little vent. Just so you know them get plan, attendance na must.

Because of MNK. Sokoto will be in the spotlight.... Are you thinking what I'm thinking ?

Zoogeria for a reason lol