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Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi has ordered the immediate reopening of the five secondary schools shut in the wake of students’ arson attack on some schools in protest against the cancellation of automatic promotion in public schools.
The affected schools are Isale Oyo Community High School, Oyo; Anglican Methodist Secondary School, Oyo; Oba Adeyemi High School, Oyo; Ojoo High School, Ibadan; and Community Secondary School, Iyana Idi Ose, Ibadan.
Ajimobi said he took the decision in deference to pleas by stakeholders and respected members of the society that the schools be reopened.
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In one of the schools, students were said to have manhandled their teachers in protest of the of mass failure in their promotion examinations.