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Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by omoalaro: 7:23am On Mar 08, 2021
Breaking News
Hijaab: 10 Kwara schools to remain shut for safety reasons


The Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development wishes to inform members of the public that the 10 government schools where the use of hijaab is disputed will remain shut until a later date.

This decision has been taken for safety reasons.

A statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, listed the schools to include C&S College Sabo Oke, ST. Anthony College, Offa Road, ECWA School, Oja Iya, Surulere Baptist Secondary School, Bishop Smith Secondary School, Agba Dam, CAC Secondary School Asa Dam road, St. Barnabas Secondary School Sabo Oke, St. John School Maraba, St. Williams Secondary School Taiwo Isale, and St. James Secondary School Maraba.

“The government therefore directs schoolchildren and teachers in the affected schools to remain at home until the contrary is announced.

The government remains committed to fairness, pluralism, and respect for the law and rights of every citizen at all times,” the statement said.

Mrs Kemi Adeosun
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development
March 7, 2021

https://twitter.com/followKWSG/status/1368806071075233793?s=19

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by aremuforlife(m): 7:27am On Mar 08, 2021
The state government should have rescued himself, he is a Muslim and he shouldn't have given the straight orders in favour of his religion, he should have waited for the outcome of the court. He is the state governor to all and not to his faith alone.
The school authorities are standing on their ground, there are rules and conditions that guide every institutes. Those that are not in favour or cannot abide by the set rules should move to another schools, that will accept their terms.

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by Fixey: 7:28am On Mar 08, 2021
aremuforlife:
The state government should have rescued himself, he is a Muslim and he should have given the straight orders in favour of his religion, he should have wait for the outcome of the court. He is a state governor to all and not to his faith alone.
The school authorities are standing on their ground, there are rules and conditions that guide every institutes. Those that are not in favour or cannot abide by the set rules should move to another schools that will accept their terms.



Gbayi

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by StreetFight: 7:49am On Mar 08, 2021
Now this is MAD 101: Introduction to Simple Madness

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by urbobo20(m): 7:52am On Mar 08, 2021
but am suprise at my christain brothers dont they have choir robe to balance the equation , u dont have to fight over every thing . ask your children to wear even white garment cloth to school

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by GeeOh(f): 7:53am On Mar 08, 2021
return the school to the missionaries and let them run it the way they want, it's their heritage. with all the Fulani trouble this governor still has time to create more problems for himself.

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by Fixey: 7:58am On Mar 08, 2021
urbobo20:
but am suprise at my christain brothers dont they have choir robe to balance the equation , u dont have to fight over every thing . ask your children to wear even white garment cloth to school


It doesn't balance it. It creates more chaos. The heritage of those schools were laid in Christianity. It is important they maintain it, not destroy or create more chaos. There's a ruling since 2003 or so that all of such schools has to be returned to their owners. If the state government is envious that they belong to Christian missionaries, the government is capable of funding and establishing new ones rather than destroy other people's legacies.

5 billion can build a network of schools. The government has way more than this.

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by Nigeriabiafra82: 7:58am On Mar 08, 2021
Gradually
Kwara have become sokoto

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by tamdun: 8:11am On Mar 08, 2021
Nigeriabiafra82:
Gradually
Kwara have become sokoto
Wike said rivers is a xtian state, Kwara is also a muslim state

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by Nobody: 8:16am On Mar 08, 2021
urbobo20:
but am suprise at my christain brothers dont they have choir robe to balance the equation , u dont have to fight over every thing . ask your children to wear even white garment cloth to school
How many Christians send their children to talakawa schools? Let muslims who want to wear hijab transfer to Islamic schools. Simple!
CAN, PFN, all Christians should insist on no hijab in Christian schools.

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by yemmight(m): 8:28am On Mar 08, 2021
Why must they impose Hijab on xtian schools. This is how they fuel crisis. Before they know, it will get out of hand.

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by omoalaro: 8:48am On Mar 08, 2021
In 1974, the Military Government ordered the takeover of private school in Nigeria. The then military Governor of Kwara state Col. David Bamigboye complied and took over private schools including mission schools. Part of what is creating the confusion today is that in Kwara state unlike in other states in Northern Nigeria, the names of the schools were not changed. In Kaduna, Queens of Apostles College became Queen Amina College, St John's became Rimi College, St Paul's became Kufena College, the Muslim owned Sheikh Shabah college became Sardauna Memorial College, etc... Christian associations in Kwara State took the Kwara State Government to court about five year ago to get the schools returned to them. They lost the case to the State government at the High Court and the Court of Appeal. The court also ruled that it is the legal right of Muslim girls to wear hijab to government owned schools. Bishop Smith was one of the schools that were taken over by government.

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by tamdun: 8:58am On Mar 08, 2021
omoalaro:
In 1974, the Military Government ordered the takeover of private school in Nigeria. The then military Governor of Kwara state Col. David Bamigboye complied and took over private schools including mission schools. Part of what is creating the confusion today is that in Kwara state unlike in other states in Northern Nigeria, the names of the schools were not changed. In Kaduna, Queens of Apostles College became Queen Amina College, St John's became Rimi College, St Paul's became Kufena College, the Muslim owned Sheikh Shabah college became Sardauna Memorial College, etc... Christian associations in Kwara State took the Kwara State Government to court about five year ago to get the schools returned to them. They lost the case to the State government at the High Court and the Court of Appeal. The court also ruled that it is the legal right of Muslim girls to wear hijab to government owned schools. Bishop Smith was one of the schools that were taken over by government.
Gbam, that's how CAN pushed El rufai in Kaduna and he jejely chose a muslim as his running mate and he won, CAN should continue pushing their luck in kwara state, all my days in kwara I've never seen Muslims oppress xtians, Ondo state govn demolished ansarudeen sch, wike declared rivers a xtian state, no noise but when a muslim fight for his right the media will explode, hypocrites

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by Nobody: 8:59am On Mar 08, 2021
omoalaro:
In 1974, the Military Government ordered the takeover of private school in Nigeria. The then military Governor of Kwara state Col. David Bamigboye complied and took over private schools including mission schools. Part of what is creating the confusion today is that in Kwara state unlike in other states in Northern Nigeria, the names of the schools were not changed. In Kaduna, Queens of Apostles College became Queen Amina College, St John's became Rimi College, St Paul's became Kufena College, the Muslim owned Sheikh Shabah college became Sardauna Memorial College, etc... Christian associations in Kwara State took the Kwara State Government to court about five year ago to get the schools returned to them. They lost the case to the State government at the High Court and the Court of Appeal. The court also ruled that it is the legal right of Muslim girls to wear hijab to government owned schools. Bishop Smith was one of the schools that were taken over by government.
Please are there no muslim schools in Kwara? Let the muslim girls transfer to muslims school and wear hijab as they wish. Christian children should be allowed to mix with people they see their heads, shoulder and trunks and be sure they are not wearing bombs.
Is hijab even in the Quoran This is just over-zealousness!

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by tamdun: 9:02am On Mar 08, 2021
Amitez:

Please are there no muslim schools in Kwara? Let the muslim girls transfer to muslims school and wear hijab as they wish. Christian children should be allowed to mix wuth people they see their heads, shoulder and trunks and be syre they are not wearing bombs.
Those sch are govt sch, the man u quoted just gave u prove and how they lost in court 5yrs ago

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by Nobody: 9:07am On Mar 08, 2021
tamdun:

Those sch are govt sch, the man u quoted just gave u prove and how they lost in court 5yrs ago
He omitted to tell you that there is an appeal before the Supreme Court. Why is govt jumping the guns?
Is hijab in your Quoran Hijab is a Saudi dress, and predates Quoran, but you guys want to impose it on Nigerians in this era of insecurity.

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by ILoveDemMANNA: 9:08am On Mar 08, 2021
The government therefore directs schoolchildren and teachers in the affected schools to remain at home until the contrary is announced.

The government remains committed to fairness, pluralism, and respect for the law and rights of every citizen at all times,” the statement said.
Safety first

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by ILoveDemMANNA: 9:08am On Mar 08, 2021
Signed by.......

Mrs Kemi Adeosun
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development
March 7, 2021.

Na two two God create us for dis world true true cheesy

clockwisereport:

true
somebody met me some years in Nsukka telling me he knows me in Lagos. I was shocked until he showed me a picture of one man in his phone.

This man is my photocopy.
Hahah grin
It has happened to millions of people all over the world truly.

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by tamdun: 9:09am On Mar 08, 2021
Amitez:

He omitted to tell you that there is an appeal before the Supreme Court. Why is govt jumping the guns?
Is hijab in your Quoran Hijab is a Saudy dress, abd you guys want to impose it on Nigerians in this era of insecurity.
Who told u ijab is not in the Quran, why don't u condemn ur Catholic sisters wearing hijab?

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by Bampeh: 9:09am On Mar 08, 2021
Safety first!
Home coaching for the children by their parents and guardians should be adopted for now.















Bampeh support this
Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by Nobody: 9:10am On Mar 08, 2021
tamdun:

Who told u ijab is not in the Quran, why don't u condemn ur Catholic sisters wearing hijab?
Where is hijab in your Quoran?

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by supereagle(m): 9:10am On Mar 08, 2021
What kind of country is this always not getting it right because of misplaced priority?
Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by Nobody: 9:10am On Mar 08, 2021
urbobo20:
but am suprise at my christain brothers dont they have choir robe to balance the equation , u dont have to fight over every thing . ask your children to wear even white garment cloth to school

YOU Ended up not MAKing a SINGLE SENSE !!!

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by inumidun2010(m): 9:10am On Mar 08, 2021
Anywhere ISLAM thrives , FREEDOM DIES

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by ibnlawal(m): 9:10am On Mar 08, 2021
READ THE BELOW ARTICLE FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS SAGA

Hijāb_* *Controversy* *In* *Ten* *Schools* *In* *Ilorin*
On the 19th February 2021, the Kwara State government ordered the closure of ten schools formerly owned by some Christian bodies. The schools were taken over by the government in 1974. The government, however, allowed them to continue to bear their Christian names, while the government has been responsible for the running cost and maintenance of the schools. The ten public schools were ordered closed by the government to prevent the breakdown of law and order following the refusal of the former owners of the schools to allow Muslim teachers and students of the schools use _hijāb_ within the premises of the schools.
It will be recalled that there had been _hijāb_ controversy in Kwara State since 2012, following the attempt of the former owners of the schools to have full control over the schools that had been taken over by the State government. They demanded that the schools should be returned to them. Consequently the government was sued by the Christian bodies at an Ilorin high court but the Kwara Muslim Community applied to be joined in the suit on behalf of the Muslim students who are not allowed to use _hijāb_ in the schools. The State government won the case on the 17th of May 2016. The judgment was appealed and the Christians lost again in September 2019. It is remarkable to note that the Appeal Court ruled that the appellants lacked the right to make Christianity the only standard in the schools. It also said that "the refusal of the schools to allow the use of _hijāb_ is discriminatory as it is a practice in tune with the Constitution. "
The Court of Appeal judgment of September 2019 has not been challenged by the Christians at the Supreme Court. Consequently Muslim students and staff went to their schools with _hijāb_ but they were sent out by the schools' principals and the heads of the Christian bodies which owned the schools before they were taken over by the government in 1974.
One expects these Christian bodies who were dissatisfied with the judgement of the Court of Appeal to proceed to the Supreme Court. Instead they took law into their hands, which is a flagrant disobedience to the judgement of the Court of Appeal. The leaders of the Christian bodies and the principals of the schools should be tried for contempt of court.
Interestingly, Britain that brought Christianity into Nigeria has allowed wearing of the _hijāb_ in her schools since 1980s. The Nigerian Christian bodies want to be more Catholic than the Pope. Toby Howarth, the Bishop of Bradford, in the Diocese of Leeds, of the Church of England supports the wearing of the _hijāb_ by primary school girls. He says:
"This is a matter of religious identity, not sexualization, and the British policy should be not to make a big deal of it, but simply say that you have to wear the right colour that goes with the school uniform" ( _The_ _Sunday_ _Times_ , 03 September 2017)
A _Sunday_ _Times_ survey also reveals that thousands of state primary schools allow girls to wear the _hijāb_ as part of approved school uniform in UK. Incidentally the country has allowed a Muslim woman, in person of Raffia Arshad, who wears _hijāb_ to become a judge.
Ilorin is generally known as a Muslim town. It has been an Emirate since 1823. Muslims are officially in majority. Sharia Court system operates in Kwara State adjudicating over Muslim matters. No non - Muslim has been forced to appear in the court. Christians established schools to convert Muslim students to their religion. They deny Muslims the practice of Islam in an Islamic town with an Emir and great scholars of Islam. The government in its wisdom took over the schools to protect the interest of all, while it has been financing the running of the schools with taxpayers' money, majority of who are Muslims, and yet the Christians continue to oppress the Muslims by not allowing the Muslims to practise their religion. Do the Christians expect the Muslims to fold their hands and watch their children converted to Christianity before their eyes? That is not possible. Christians attend Muslim schools in the state. They are not forced to wear _hijāb_ in the Muslim schools.
Ironically the Bible enjoins Christian females to cover their head (1 Timothy 2:9-10 & 1 Corinthians 11: 4-7). Catholic Rev. Sisters and Mothers obey the biblical injunction. Mary, the mother of Jesus wore _hijāb_ . The artistic impression of Mary as displayed by Christians confirms that. If some Christians now jettison biblical teaching and celebrate nudity, immorality, indecent mode of dressing, Muslims will never do that. They obey the . teachings of the Qur'an on the female mode of dressing (Q33:59 & 24:31). Muslims must note that the Christians want to make Muslims emulate their disobedience to God. Muslims have been warned by Allah against the antics of the Christians (Q2:120). Let's be on our guard and stand firmly by the ethos of Islamic mode of dressing.
Kwara State government should solve this lingering problem once and for all. The government should exercise full control over all the schools that it has taken over. They are public schools. They should be seen as such. No religious body should have any control over the schools. The schools should cease to bear the names that reflect any religious body. They no longer belong to any religious body. That was done in other northern states in 1974.
Principals and Vice Principals should no longer be appointed by the former owners of the schools. Loyalty and allegiance of the Principals and the Vice Principals will always belong to whoever appoints them because whoever pays the piper dictates the tune. The government should appoint them as they appoint other teachers to demonstrate that it is the owner of the schools, and that the schools are not jointly owned by the government and anyone, or partially owned with anyone else.
Every Nigerian has been guaranteed religious freedom by Section 38(1) of the Constitution. Everyone must therefore be allowed to enjoy that freedom wherever he or she may be in Nigeria.
_Jumu'atun_ _Mubārakah_
Prof Yasir Anjola Quadri
14th Rajab, 1442 / 26th February 2021

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Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by DoctorDree(m): 9:11am On Mar 08, 2021
If tribalism doesn’t end Nigeria,Politics will try and if politics no fit do am,Religion will come in,las las make the three come combine!!!
Re: Hijab: 10 Kwara Schools To Remain Shut For Safety Reasons by 360degreess(m): 9:11am On Mar 08, 2021
Mirror1:
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..Kwara State is a Muslim state,CAN should go to Rivers state and raise shoulders there..
Christianity is the most confused religion on earth.. Didn't the Bible say women should cover their heads and dress modestly?..Read 1timothy 2:9,1corinthians 11:5-6, Deuteronomy 22:5..Look at the pictures of mother Mary mother of Jesus,she was covered as well.So why are they always disobeying their scriptures just because Islam is having the same rules?..

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