Edo and Benue states have recently introduced similar directives.
In Benue State, a memo addressed to private schools, mission schools, education stakeholders, parents, and guidance counselors outlined the following:
Textbooks: The use of restricted, customized educational materials is banned. Schools are directed to revert to the traditional practice of senior students or pupils passing down textbooks to those in lower classes.
Extra-Mural Classes: Compulsory extra-mural classes are prohibited unless specifically requested by parents.
Textbooks: The use of restricted, customized educational materials is banned. Schools are directed to revert to the traditional practice of senior students or pupils passing down textbooks to those in lower classes.
Extra-Mural Classes: Compulsory extra-mural classes are prohibited unless specifically requested by parents.
Graduation Parties: Graduation parties for kindergarten, nursery, and basic schools are automatically banned.
The memo emphasized strict adherence to these policies starting from the 2025/2026 academic session.
Graduation Parties: Graduation parties for kindergarten, nursery, and basic schools are automatically banned.
The memo emphasized strict adherence to these policies starting from the 2025/2026 academic session.
A school owner on my whatsapp has been crashing out after Imo stateade the announcement. Her husband supplies books to many schools within Nasarawa state. Let me forward this to her 🤣
ReplyDeleteGood 😊
DeleteThis policies will help us parents 👏
Adunni
She go faint 😭😭
DeleteThis is very nice.
ReplyDeleteKudos to the Imo Governor who started it.
Sanowu come and see ooo. I hope this comes to Lagos State.
ReplyDeleteI have bought close to thousands of textbooks even paying for compulsory end of session parties. We are tired of this in Lagos state
A similar directive may come to Lagos state soon, afterall the 'several' three states that have given such directives are APC-governed states like Lagos.
Deletedon't worry all the states will join soonest.
DeleteGot a bill of 80k for my daughter's primary school graduation. PRIMARY SCHOOL! Biko, what is she graduating from? Advanced A B C ??
DeleteRidiculous nonsense.
Those textbooks..... Lemme not even conntect on that
The Nursery graduation wetin we spend person no fit Talk am..
ReplyDeleteHello iya Boys
Textbooks we're buying now in primary and secondary come be like University days 🥹
DeleteAdunni
Same here, 50k+ per child in PG, you needed to see what they were given
DeleteMy dear , I never buy books School say Monday last day
DeleteI dey look Celling fan 🤣
And big brother make I no get Hbp🤣
Where is their dad?
DeleteThis is good news, I hope other state would emulate this especially those restrictive textbooks.
ReplyDeleteThey make the extra mural compulsory, they adjust the time table for the day and include some subjects into the extra mural class time there by making it compulsory
ReplyDeleteI love the development
ReplyDeleteGreat News
ReplyDeleteI hope other states will follow up too
Lagos state should pls follow suit 👍
ReplyDeleteThese schools have been doing this for long. Converting all textbooks to workbooks...why?
Those days the McMillan textbooks my elder sisters used, we continued with them 📚
Adunni
I pity people producing school books😂
ReplyDeleteThey will simply introduce separate workbooks for each subject. You will then have to buy different workbooks for each child you have. So we are back to square one.
DeleteBook producers have nothing to worry about. Instead, we have just found a way to give them more money.
If they introduce work books, it is a 50/50 position. The textbook can still be used on the basis that it cannot be changed for 4 years.
DeleteLet the entire states and the FCT adopt this. Kudos.
ReplyDeleteNice one 👍
ReplyDeleteLagos wetin una still dey do?
Patiently waiting for FCT to give same order..Prices of textbooks is too much
ReplyDeleteOther states, please,just copy and paste🙏🏼
ReplyDeleteWith this policy, we are throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I'm a parent and I can already see where this is going.
ReplyDeleteGoing forward, book publishing houses will now create a separate workbook for each subject. So you will buy textbook and still buy workbook. So have you saved money? No, your costs have doubled.
We don't think things through in this country. Edo state governor that can't add 1 plus 1 is the one bringing policy and others are jumping in.
Yes this will happen with the first child to use the book. Subsequently when that child hands down the textbook to the younger one, only workbooks will be gotten for that younger one
DeleteTulley, thank you for saving me. It's only the workbooks that would be gotten and won't be as expensive as the textbooks every term
DeleteAnd Who says that Government cannot ban workbooks.
DeleteWe went to school using exercise books and textbooks.
All exercise books are now being returned almost unused yet they were paid for.
Most governments are playing politics with almost all aspects of life in Nigeria today.
If not, school owners would have sat up since.
This is a good development that should be applied at the national level. There are still schools that are considerate. A big kudos to Alljoy Montessori School Idimu Lagos! They have been impacting knowledge without draining parents. I am a satisfied parent.
ReplyDeleteBV Tuleyy, you can then see that the policy will not achieve much. By introducing workbooks, we are back to square one. Head or tails the book publishing houses and the schools themselves will not lose.
ReplyDeleteSir, are you a book printer or publisher? You dogged advocacy for the practice is commendable. If the parents are saved half the amount on books, is it not good?
DeleteGreat, how I wish it can be extended over the country.
ReplyDeleteAnything the govt jumps and bans quickly, they have no stake in, it means big men never enter publishing business, na why dey were able to quickly do this. Other things that need their immediate action like this, but becos na dem get the businesses, dem never quickly ban am.
ReplyDeleteContribute nothing. Complain about everything, choose to see nothing good. What a sad way to go through life.
Delete22:42
DeleteAre you a parent?
Have you been responsible paying school fees and buying books for a child in the last 4 years?
Which big man do you think can go into book business today and make any profit?
I pay for books at a primary school.
I have been learning the book trade for years.
You appear not to know much of what you wrote about.
But I concede I may be wrong.
My able governor,you try
ReplyDeleteother states should join soonest. Enough is enough, parents will pay heavy school fees, plus school party for children who don't even understand what party is all about. You keep buying text books all the times, parents you people have done enough. Is time to have some rest from private school owners, they will not emulate good things but only things that will cause pains to people.
ReplyDeleteInstead of this state to state, many states are still waiting for their turn and some may not, why not do the needful federal government? Let the federal government do the banning so all states will benefit from it.
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