Gombe Bans ‘Sign Outs’, Suspends Registration Of New Private Schools

Gombe State Government, done its Ministry of Education has banned the schoolhouse graduation ‘sign out’ by students, and besides suspended caller backstage schoolhouse registrations crossed the state.

In a connection signed by the Director of Quality Assurance successful the ministry, Saidu Dauda Gadam, the authorities announced that lone students completing Primary 6, JSS 3, and SS 3 volition henceforth clasp graduation ceremonies.

The ministry “frowns astatine the ‘sign-out’ civilization wherever graduating students constitute with markers connected each other’s fabrics, describing this arsenic a increasing “trend of unruly and unsafe behaviour by students which has go a root of interest to the government,” saying “such practices stay banned successful each schools.”

The measure, according to the Commissioner of Education, Professor Aishatu Umar Maigari, was to support standards and cheque excesses successful schools.

The authorities besides prohibited schools from forcing parents to bargain learning materials specified arsenic textbooks, uniforms, and penning items exclusively wrong schoolhouse premises.

Instead, parents present person the enactment to acquisition acquisition materials for their wards successful schoolhouse oregon from the unfastened market.

In bid to easiness fiscal burdens connected parents, the authorities authorities besides announced a prohibition connected textbooks with built-in worksheets, which forestall reuse.

Dauda Gadam besides directed schools September 15, 2026, to supply optional workbooks oregon workout books separately, portion main textbooks stay reusable successful enactment with the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) curriculum.

In a further regulatory move, the ministry suspended the registration of caller private, community, and faith-based schools, portion existing schools yet to implicit their support and certification process person been fixed October 31, 2025, arsenic deadline to comply.

The ministry besides ordered backstage schools to strictly align with authorities policies, particularly successful adopting the caller curriculum, promoting accomplishment development, enforcing anti-bullying rules, and ensuring due introspection centres for their elder secondary students.

According to the statement, the determination was to guarantee that acquisition successful the authorities remains accessible, affordable, and of precocious quality for all.