The Akwa Ibom State Government says it would deploy a particular monitoring process power to deal with truancy, avenue hawking by school-age youngsters throughout faculty hours, and kids not enrolled in class.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Ubong Umoh, introduced the measure in a statement dated 14 October, saying the ministry had noticed youngsters of fundamental and pre-tertiary faculty ages roaming the streets and hawking throughout faculty hours regardless of the state’s free and obligatory training coverage.
Under the proposed enforcement measure, the duty power will intercept pupils who arrive late to faculty or depart class throughout faculty hours. It will even confront mother and father and guardians who fail to enrol their youngsters or wards in class, in accordance to the assertion.
The ministry recognized faculty hours as 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays.
Mr Umoh stated the measure was supposed to hold youngsters in school rooms, enhance their security, curb truancy and classroom distractions, and forestall little one abuse.
He stated the initiative would additionally assist the implementation of the state’s free and obligatory training coverage.
The commissioner, nonetheless, didn’t specify when the duty power would start operations, how it might be constituted, or the penalties that will apply to mother and father and guardians who fail to adjust to the directive.
The directive follows the state’s poor efficiency within the 2026 National Examinations Council Senior School Certificate Examination.
PREMIUM TIMES reported in September that Akwa Ibom ranked thirty sixth among the many 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, with solely 37.42 per cent of candidates acquiring not less than 5 credit, together with in English Language and Mathematics. The efficiency represented a serious decline from the state’s Twelfth-place rating in 2025.
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The state authorities later disputed the newspaper’s report, claiming outcomes from 83 of 214 public-school examination centres had not been launched. However, it had not but supplied the official knowledge it stated supported its place.
On 7 October, Governor Umo Eno declared a state of emergency within the training sector and permitted recruiting a further 2,000 academics.
The new directive on faculty attendance provides enforcement in opposition to truancy and non-enrolment to the challenges going through the state’s training authorities.
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