The 55-year old International School Ibadan, owned by the University of Ibadan, was on Monday shut.
The closure of the secondary school, followed the appearance of some students, dressed in hijab against what the management prescribed as the dress code.
Some parents,
under the aegis of the International School Muslim Parents’ Forum, in a letter dated November 9, 2018, and signed by Abdurrhaman Balogun (chairman) and Bilikis Badiru (secretary), and sent to the Principal of the school, Mrs Phebean Olowe, and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics, UI, Prof. Abideen Aderinto, stated that they were “putting the schools’ management on notice of this resolution on the rights of our female children to commence the use of hijab from this academic session of 2018/2019.”
The forum argued, “Hijab-wearing for young Muslim girls, apart from the fact that it is part of their religious belief, is part of their God-given fundamental human right as well as in line with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
As a result, the classes were shut when some hijab-wearing students were sighted in the school premises as early as 7am.
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- The Punchng
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