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The Kwara State Government has confirmed the use of hijab by willing Muslim schoolgirls in all categories of public schools in the state.

The state Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Sa’adatu Madibbo-Kawu, made this known during a peace meeting between Muslim and Christian stakeholders from Ijagbo in the Oyun Local Government Area of the state held at the ministry’s headquarters in Ilorin on Monday. A statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Yakub Aliagan, disclosed this on Tuesday.

The commissioner as quoted to have said, “The policy statement of the Kwara State Government allowing willing Muslim schoolgirls to wear the hijab in all public schools, including grant-aided ones, is binding. “This conforms to the judicial pronouncements of the courts of law and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”She directed the head of the Oyun Baptist High School, Ijagbo, to immediately implement the policy on the use of approved hijab in public schools.

 

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Come to think of this,it is some of our fathers making sure this happens,'Do they think at all',wef got 99 problems and hijab ain't supposed be 1,...religious bullshit.

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