A secondary school in Bauchi State, SaĆ”du Zungur Model Primary and Secondary School, was shut down by the State government over the weekend, after illegal marriages between students was conducted by senior students organizedby in its premises. The order to close down the school which came from the State’s deputy State Governor, Nuhu Gidado, who is also the State’s Commissioner for Education, also affected the primary section of the school. It was also disclosed that the school will remain closed until a special committee is set up by the government, whose task will be to come up with detailed reports and recommendations on the issue. The illegal marriage which was blamed on moral decadence in the society, in a press statement by Yakubu Adamu, Gidado’s Special Assistant on Communications. It is alleged that the school’s teachers uncovered the affair, when their attention was drawn to shouts of excitements from students present at one of such ceremonies organized b...
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