{"id":79188,"date":"2025-11-22T19:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79188"},"modified":"2025-11-22T19:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:18:41","slug":"fg-dismisses-reports-of-nationwide-school-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/22\/fg-dismisses-reports-of-nationwide-school-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Dismisses Reports of Nationwide School Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Education has debunked a viral social media message claiming that schools across Nigeria will shut down on November 24, 2025, describing it as false and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Saturday, ministry spokesperson Folasade Boriowo said no such directive was issued by the Federal Government, the ministry, state education authorities, or any security agency.<\/p>\n<p>She urged the public to rely on verified information from official channels and avoid spreading unconfirmed reports.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry reiterated that only communications from the Federal Government, the Ministry of Education, state governments, and recognised security agencies should be regarded as authentic.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification follows the recent closure of 41 federal schools in high-risk areas due to insecurity, particularly in Niger and Kebbi States.<\/p>\n<p>Several states, including Kwara, Plateau, Katsina and Niger, have also shut some schools, while Taraba State has directed immediate deboarding in all public and private schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Federal Ministry of Education has debunked a viral social media message claiming that schools across Nigeria will shut down on November 24, 2025, describing it as false and misleading. In a statement on Saturday, ministry spokesperson Folasade Boriowo said no such directive was issued by the Federal Government, the ministry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":79189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79190,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79188\/revisions\/79190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}