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Kwara protesting teachers arrested for flouting COVID-19 rules – Police Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin The Kwara State Police Command said it had arrested six of the 2,414 sacked teachers in the state for allegedly contravening COVID-19 protocols during a protest at the State Government House in Ilorin on Wednesday. The State Universal Basic Education Board teachers, known as ‘Sunset Workers’ employed in the twilight of former Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed’s administration in February 2019, were sacked by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in December 2020. However, the sacked teachers, who had been...

2 min read Some of the over two thousand teachers sacked last year in Kwara State on Thursday stormed the governor’s office in Ilorin to protest the recruitment of new teachers to fill their positions. The state government had in December last year sacked 2,414 teachers employed in the last weeks of the administration of former governor Abdulfatah Ahmed in 2019. The state Ministry of Education said the “Sunset teachers” were laid off because their employment contravened due process. It also said an investigation conducted by the state government with the Economic and Fin...