Recall that some schools in Kwara and Lagos State, where embroiled in a Hijab Controversy, the Kwara State government has directed 10 secondary schools that were embroiled in the hijab controversy to resume on Monday.

This is contained in a contained in a communique signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun for the commencement of the third term of the 2020/2021 academic session.

The intent of the resumption, is to enable the students and teachers to cover the lost grounds as other schools in the state will resume for the third term academic session on April 26, 2021.

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The Communique reads, “This is to inform parents/guardians and teachers that the 2020/2021 Third Term Academic Session for the 10 schools affected in the recent hijaab debate starts on Monday, 12th April 2021.

“This is part of the government’s efforts to bring the students in these schools up to speed in whatever they may have missed when their schools were shut. This is especially necessary for students preparing for external examinations.

“The resumption date for other schools not affected by the brief closure of schools is Monday 26th, 2021, as had earlier been communicated.

“All the teachers and staff of the affected schools should resume duty and commence classes immediately.

“The Monitoring and Inspection team of the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development will be going round to ascertain compliance.”

The mother of a Nigerian student, Richard Okorogheye, whose body was found in a lake in Epping Forest in UK, says her heart “feels as if it has been ripped apart”.

According to Sky News, Evidence Joel said she is “completely hollow and devastated and empty” after police confirmed yesterday that the body found in Essex on Monday was the 19-year-old’s.

“At this moment of time I just want answers as how my son lost his life. I want answers. I desperately need closure,” she said.

She said she will continue to support the police in order to find out what happened to her son.

Okorogheye went missing after leaving his family home in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London on the evening of 22 March.

On Monday, the Metropolitan Police said they were informed by Essex Police that the body of a man was found in a lake in Epping Forest.

The mother of the student said she had been to the site where her son’s body was found to lay flowers.

She said, “It was a very uncomfortable place to be. I wouldn’t want to be there.

“My son that I know cannot walk into that darkness – no torch, no light. An hour and 30 minutes from where he was last seen. He must have guts to do that. He’s only 19.

“What could push him to go that far if he wasn’t meeting somebody?”

Okorogheye was a student at Oxford Brookes University but had been shielding during the pandemic because he had sickle cell disease.

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Joel said he only left the house for hospital appointments.

The teenager’s death is being treated as unexplained and police do not believe at this stage that there was any third-party involvement.

Investigators are still looking at his computer and searching the forest for his shoes, phone and bag which were not with his body when it was found.

Joel said she was “surprised” to hear that police believe no one else was involved.

“Something happened there. It’s too far for Richard to walk into that darkness alone. You can’t, it’s tedious, it’s darkness.

“So how did he get there? What happened? We don’t know. I feel something happened there.”

The cause of Okorogheye’s death is pending while further investigations are carried out, however police found no evidence of physical trauma or assault, detectives said.

Joel described her son as the “perfect child” and said she was “lucky” to be his mother.

“He will always be my baby and I will always be his mother and no one can take that away from me,” she said.

Joel also told Sky News that a number of fake GoFundMe pages have been set up in her son’s name.

She said the family has not created one yet but will do so soon.

The National Universities Commission has granted provisional licences to 20 newly established private universities.

They received their licences from the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, in Abuja on Thursday.

With the approval, Nigeria now has 99 private universities.

The universities granted provisional licenses are:

Mudiame University, Irrua, Edo State

James Hope University, Lagos

Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria, Kano

Capital City University, Kano

Ahman Pategi University, Pategi, Kwara State

University of Offa, Kwara State

Topfaith University, Mkpatak, Akwa Ibom State

Thomas Adewumi University, Oko-Irese, Kwara State

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Maranathan University, Mgbidi, Imo State

Ave Maria University, Piyanko, Nasarawa State

Al-Istiqama University, Sumaila, Kano State

Havilla University, Nde-Ikom, Cross River State

Claretian University of Nigeria, Nekede, Imo State

NOK University, Kachia, Kaduna State

Karl-Kumm University, Vom, Plateau State

Mewar University, Masaka, Nasarawa State

Edusoko University, Bida, Niger State

Philomath University, Kuje, Abuja

Khadija University, Majia, Jigawa State

ANAN University, Kwall, Plateau State