Tag: Ogun State

Ogun Gov grants all students automatic promotion to next class as schools set to reopen

Ishaku Yohanna

The Ogun state government has announced that all students have been given automatic promotion to the next class, including automatic placement for primary 6 students in public primary schools into JSS1 of public secondary schools. The state government has said schools should reopen on September 21st for the first term of 2020/2021 session, after they have been closed for five months to curb the spread of COVID-19. This was made known in a statement by Kunle Somorin, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Dapo Abiodun, on Monday. He noted that…

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Ogun makes U-turn, says COVID-19 test for students now free

Ishaku Yohanna

Ogun State government has made a U-turn, making COVID-19 tests free for all returning SS3 boarding students. Governor Dapo Abiodun, on Monday, ordered the stepping down of the COVID-19 test as a mandatory requirement for returning students in the exit classes, and equally directed that the government laboratories carry out tests for all returning SS3 boarding students at no cost. Those that have paid for tests will be refunded. Governor Abiodun, who gave the directives while reacting to the protest embarked on by parents of final year students in private…

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Parents protest as graduating students in Ogun are asked to pay N25,000 fee each for COVID-19 test

Ishaku Yohanna

With just 24 hours to the resumption of schools by graduating students across the country, parents in Ogun State on Sunday rejected the state governments directive for students in private schools to pay for COVID-19 tests. The government had asked the students to pay N25,000 each for the test in various designated outlets across the state. The Special Adviser on Primary and Secondary Education to the governor, Ronke Soyombo, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, said the students must present the evidence of the COVID-19 test in their…

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Man using wifes gown to impersonate lawyers sentenced to jail

Ishaku Yohanna

An Abeokuta Magistrates Court in Ogun state has sentenced one Omotola Ayokanmi, a 47-year-old man to three years in prison for impersonation. According to Fortune Akhenegor, a Police Inspector and the prosecution counsel, Ayokanmi unlawfully presented himself as legal practitioner at a Federal High Court, Abeokuta, July 16. Ayokanmi had appeared before the Federal High Court as a Counsel to move an application for bail. The Judge found fault in his address to the court which made the Judge interrogate him, Akhenegor said. He later confessed that he only had…

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