Nigeria: Ogun's Free Education Threatened - Commissioner

24 January 2013

The Ogun State Government has given a hint that the free education system running in the state was being threatened, even as it harped on the need to include civic education into the curriculum of all the public schools in the state.

The state Commissioners for Education, Segun Odubela and Kemi Adeosun and Chairman, Ogun State Universal Basic Education Board, Chief Akande Ajibola, gave the hint while speaking at a one-day civic education programme jointly organised for secondary students across the 20 local government areas of the state by the Ministry of Finance and the Internal Revenue Service, themed, Understanding the Tax System.

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