The Benedictine Order of Peace and Unity Academy Foundation in Nyiman, Makurdi, Benue State, has been shut.
This is as a result of failing to meet the required educational standards, according to the Benue State Government that carried out the exercise.
Leading the closure, Terna Francis, Director General of the Bureau for Education Quality Assurance (BEQA), explained the school was operating out of an unfinished hotel building.
Francis added that the absence of a curriculum, lesson plans, schemes of work, and qualified teachers, while the institution was running three separate schools within the incomplete structure added to unacceptable reasons for the closure.
Francis said the academy was not registered and lacked government approval, stressing that substandard schools would not be permitted to operate in the state. He added that BEQA had identified 2,416 illegal schools and issued notices to proprietors to meet required standards or face closure.
“The risk involved in keeping children in such buildings cannot be overemphasized,” Francis stated. “As a regulatory body, we cannot allow anything harmful to happen to these children.”
He advised parents to remove their children from the institution, which lacks proper uniforms and records, and enroll them in government-approved schools.
