Chibok Girls’ WAEC Results Ready – Education Minister

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Nigeria’s education minister, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has told the House of Representatives Committee on Education that the results of the Chibok schoolgirls who wrote the April 2014 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exams are ready.

 Shekarau made the disclosure yesterday at a stakeholders meeting organised by the House Committee on Education, on the federal government's directive to schools to resume on September 22, from the October 12 date given in consideration of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country.

According to Leadership, the minister said the results were being reviewed by the education ministry, because of the “haphazard” nature of the situation caused by Boko Haram’s abduction of some of the schoolgirls.
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VIDEO: Why I Set Books Ablaze As Kano Governor — Shekarau, Education Minister

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In 2007, Ibrahim Shekarau as Governor of Kano State in Northern Nigeria publicly burned Hausa romance novels and materials he described as pornography and immoral to the customs and traditions of Northern Nigeria society. He banned actors and subjected Hausa authors to what human rights campaigners described as heavy-handed censorship board. Writers in Kano State had to go to court and Mr. Shekarau was forced to settle out of court and slow down on his censorship. His local enforcers had a field day moralising for writers, authors and those they describe as ‘immoral’. Kayode Ogundamisi met Mr. Shekarau, who is now Nigeria’s Education minister, at a London event organised by UK based BEN-TV and sought clarification from him on why as governor, he had to personally enforce and lead the burning of books publicly.
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