Kaduna Government Schools To Open Four Days A Week Over Banditry

To allow employees to focus on agriculture, the Kaduna State Government has mandated that all public schools in the state begin functioning four days a week.

Despite the fact that the state is wracked by banditry, kidnappings, and killings, the state government stated that the new policy will increase productivity by allowing workers to focus on their families and enhance work-life balance.

The Commissioner for Education, Halima Lawal, issued the decision in a notice for school resumption for the second term of the new academic session on Sunday.

Lawal also recommended school administrators to be security-conscious and to report any security threats to the authorities as soon as possible.

She added that the academic calendar will be altered to guarantee that the academic session’s curriculum was covered.

The Kaduna State government began the transition to a four-day working week on December 1.

The administration stated that the new legislation will eventually have an impact on the state’s organized private sector.

Attacks on schools by bandits had also plagued the state.

Bandits kidnapped 121 kids from Bethel Baptist School in Maraban Damishi, Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna, on July 5, 2021.

In 2021, at least 1200 students, predominantly from higher education institutions, were abducted in coordinated attacks on schools in mostly Northern states.

Government Science College in Kagara, Niger; Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara; Bethel Baptist High School; Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation; and Greenfield University, all in Kaduna State, were among the schools targeted.