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Hijab Crisis Kwara Reopens Baptist School 4 Months Later

Hijab Crisis: Kwara Reopens Baptist School 4 Months Later

The Government Kwara State on Thursday announced the reopening of Oyun Baptist High School, Ijagbo, for students to resume academic activities after a four-month closure over the crisis caused by the wearing of Hijab.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that on February 3, the state government had shut the school following a crisis between Muslim and Christian parents who stormed the institution to defend their respective faith on the wearing of Hijab by female Muslim students in the school.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Permanent Secretary in the State Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Mrs …