Abia parents recover illegal graduation fees from schools

Some nationalist and backstage schools who allegedly collected amerciable fees from pupils for the 2026 graduation celebrations person started refunding the wealth to pupils and their parents, successful compliance to Abia State government’s directive.

The State government, done the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Goodluck Ubochi, weekend, threatened to enforce dense sanctions on  immoderate nationalist oregon backstage schoolhouse recovered collecting unauthorized graduation levies oregon fees from pupils and students, successful usurpation of existing regulations.

The State authorities reiterated its prohibition connected graduation-related charges but for pupils successful terminal classes of Primary 6 and students successful Senior Secondary School 3 (SS3).

Following the information, galore parents who had already paid fees to their children’s schools, person started making demands for refunds, portion immoderate others asked the backstage schools to subtract them from their children’s statutory schoolhouse fees.

In response, immoderate of the schools person started refunding the fees to the parents.

The fees being refunded to the parents successful Umuahia and Aba, according to findings from DAILY POST, scope from N2,000 to N12,000 per pupil.

Two of the parents, who spoke nether anonymity, said they were prompted to attack their children’s schools for refunds, connected learning that the Stat...