Kwara Closes Schools in Four LGAs Over Security Threats

The Kwara State Government has ordered the immediate closure of schools in four local government areas due to rising insecurity in some communities.

The directive, announced on Wednesday by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Kwara State wing, covers schools in Isin, Irepodun, Ifelodun, and Ekiti LGAs.

In a circular obtained by CHANNELS TELEVISION, NUT Chairman Yusuf Agboola said the union was acting strictly on instructions from the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development following reports of fresh security threats in Kwara South.

“Comrade chairmen, this is to inform you and through you, all schools in the above local governments of the instruction to close down all schools with immediate effect until further notice.

“This decision was occasioned by the security challenges ravaging the area and the efforts of the government to control the situation. Treat this information as important and with the urgency it deserves, as it emanated from the ministry,” the circular read.

Agboola assured school heads and teachers that further directives would be communicated as the situation evolves.