Nigeria, March 23 -- The Osun State government on Monday sealed off 23 private schools it said were "substandard" across the state.

The seal off according to the state's commissioner for education, Folorunso Oladoyin, is to perfect the efforts of the government to sanitise education sector in the state for better results.

Mr Oladoyin, in a statement seen by PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, said authorities "will not relent in its efforts to give quality education to Osun students because they are the future of the state."

He urged the school supervisors in Osun to "continue to keep its eyes wide open to fish out more mushroom and substandard private schools.

"The state government is determined to produce critical thinkers who can be globally...