King’s College: Protesters shut Education Ministry, block minister, perm sec

The Federal Ministry of Education office successful Abuja was on Tuesday thrown into turmoil arsenic protesting workers unopen down the ministry, booed elder officials and prevented the Minister of State for Education, Prof. Suwaiba Ahmad, and the Acting Permanent Secretary, Dr. Folake Olatunji-David, from accessing their offices.

The protest, which entered its 4th day, was triggered by a caller circular announcing the concessioning of King’s College, Lagos, a improvement the workers described arsenic unacceptable and a menace to the aboriginal of Nigeria’s nationalist acquisition system.

The protesters, nether the Joint Council representing 4 large unit unions successful the ministry, accused the Federal Government of utilizing the King’s College concession arsenic a imaginable starting constituent for concessioning different national unity schools crossed the country.

They warned that specified a policy, if allowed to continue, could progressively spot prime acquisition beyond the scope of children from mediocre and working-class families.

Addressing journalists astatine the ministry’s entrance, Chairman of the Joint Council, Comrade Onukhe Abraham, questioned the rationale down the concession of King’s College, peculiarly astatine a clip the Federal Government had approved the employment of much than 3,000 Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) unit to code manpowe...