Kwara Govt approves Hijab wearing Christian schools
By Demola Akinyemi After series of consultations with stakeholders, Kwara state government has approved that interested Muslim students attending Christian public schools in the state can be wearing Hijab to schools, stressing that the government affirm the right of every child in public schools to freedom of worship. It therefore directed the ten public schools that were hitherto closed in the wake of protests over the religion controversy to be reopened. The government further directed the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development to come up with a uniform hijab for all public/ gr...