Students protest schools’ privatisation, ground Oyo

• Ajimobi orders closure of primary, secondary schools 

  

  Protesting primary and secondary school students yesterday paralysed academic, social and commercial activities in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

 
The students, who took to the major streets of Ibadan, were protesting the proposed privatisation of schools by the administration of Governor Abiola Ajimobi.
They were also protesting the trial of seven Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) leaders, who had on Wednesday led hundreds of workers to the Parliament Building of the Government Secretariat to disrupt the stakeholders’ forum organised to initiate a partnership arrangement with some investors to run the state public education institutions.
The state NLC Chairman, Waheed Olojede, Messrs Sikiru Sodo, Oseni Aderemi, Oparinde Kehinde, Falade Akinyele, Ogundeji Kofoworola and Adegbogun Titi, who were arraigned before the Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday were, however, released yesterday after meeting their bail conditions. Immediately they regained freedom, the NLC National Vice President, Comrade Adelegan Solomon, and the Deputy General Secretary, Chris Uyot, announced an indefinite strike commencing from today.http://newtelegraphonline.com/category/metro/