Oyo govt orders re-opening of 23 schools closed 10 years ago
Nigeria, Feb. 1 -- A total of 23 schools in Oyo State that have been shut for about 10 years have been ordered to reopen.
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 Bapti...
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