Four northern states, namely Bauchi, Katsina, Kebbi, and Kano have been slammed by for shutting down state-owned schools during the Ramadan fasting period by Nigeria’s Minister of State for Education, Suwaiba Ahmad.
The minister while criticizing the four states emphasised that “nowhere is it stated that schools must be closed for fasting”.
Ahmad argued that this practice is not followed in any Muslim-majority country, and that keeping schools open during Ramadan is the standard norm, even in nations where Islam is the dominant religion.
Meanwhile data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that four northern states, which shut down schools for Ramadan, have some of the highest rates of out-of-school children in the country.
RAMADAN: Education Minister Blast States for Shutting down Schools…
