The Ministry of Education in Oyo State will oversee the reopening of schools that were closed for 10 years due to a boundary crisis. The affected schools are located in Atiba, Afijio, Oyo East, and Oyo West local government areas.
According to the deputy governor, the state’s Ministry of Education will oversee the schools after reopening, adding that the Ministry will do whatever is required to put the affected children in the areas back to school.The schools were shut due to a boundary crisis and are located in Atiba, Afijio, Oyo East and Oyo West local government areas of the state. A long-standing boundary dispute had led to a 10-year closure of the said schools in the affected local government areas.
But rising from a stakeholders’ meeting held at the Western Hall, Secretariat, Ibadan, to discuss ways of resolving the age-long land dispute, the state’s deputy governor, Bayo Lawal, directed the immediate re-opening of the schools. The affected schools include Community Basic School Obananko, Oyo; Community Basic School, Laagbe, Oyo; Pinnock Memorial Baptist School, Aba Epo, Oluwatedo, Oyo; Baptist Basic School, Oluwatedo, Oyo; St. Lukes Anglican, Bada Idiyalode, Oyo; L.A. Basic School, Ago, Oyo; Community Basic School, Igbo Olose, Oyo, in Oyo West Local Governmen
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