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KWARA PENALISED SCHOOL HEADS FOR OVERCHARGING STUDENTS
 
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Thu, 3 Oct 2013   ||   Nigeria,
 

Two Secondary School principals has been suspended, others issued warning letters by the Kwara State government for overcharging newcomers in their schools.

CEOAFRICA news desk gathered this from the statement by the Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Alhaji Saka Onimago who revealed the tough measures were adopted against school principals to check excesses of school heads.

Commissioner Onimago also warned principals to desist from overcharging students and adhere strictly to the approved levies, stressing that the state government had set up a “high-powered” committee headed by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Alhaji Lamidi Alabi, to look into the matter.

He declared however that the suspended principals charged above the approved N230 for Junior Secondary Schools and N300 for Senior Secondary Schools.

 

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