{"id":79355,"date":"2025-11-26T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79355"},"modified":"2025-11-26T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:00:21","slug":"wike-suspends-fct-education-secretary-over-unauthorized-school-closure-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/26\/wike-suspends-fct-education-secretary-over-unauthorized-school-closure-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Suspends FCT Education Secretary Over Unauthorized School Closure Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has dismissed reports claiming that all government schools in the Federal Capital Territory were instructed to close by November 28, 2025, stating that no such directive was issued.<\/p>\n<p>Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, said the Minister has ordered the immediate suspension of the Mandate Secretary for Education, Dr. Danlami Hayyo, for issuing the circular without proper authorisation.<\/p>\n<p>The Acting Head of Service, Mrs. Nancy Sabanti Nathan, has also been directed to take disciplinary action against the Director of School Services, Mrs. Aishatu Sani Alhassan, in line with civil service rules.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Hayyo released the circular prematurely, prompting widespread confusion among parents, students and school administrators.<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting the claims of an early shutdown, the FCTA described the report as false and misleading, urging the public to disregard it. The administration reaffirmed that the approved academic calendar remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>The FCTA further assured residents, especially students of adequate security across schools, noting that the Minister has ordered the continuation of Operation Sweep and other security interventions within the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has dismissed reports claiming that all government schools in the Federal Capital Territory were instructed to close by November 28, 2025, stating that no such directive was issued. Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":79356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,183,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-education","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79355","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=79355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79357,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79355\/revisions\/79357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}