The Akwa Ibom State Government says it is going to deploy a particular monitoring activity pressure to deal with truancy, road hawking by school-age kids throughout faculty hours, and kids not enrolled at school.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Ubong Umoh, introduced the measure in a statement dated 14 October, saying the ministry had noticed kids of primary and pre-tertiary faculty ages roaming the streets and hawking throughout faculty hours regardless of the state’s free and obligatory schooling coverage.
Under the proposed enforcement measure, the duty pressure will intercept pupils who arrive late to faculty or depart class throughout faculty hours. It may even confront mother and father and guardians who fail to enrol their kids or wards at school, in accordance to the assertion.
The ministry recognized faculty hours as 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays.
Mr Umoh mentioned the measure was supposed to preserve kids in lecture rooms, enhance their security, curb truancy and classroom distractions, and stop little one abuse.
He mentioned the initiative would additionally help the implementation of the state’s free and obligatory schooling coverage.
The commissioner, nevertheless, didn’t specify when the duty pressure would start operations, how it will be constituted, or the penalties that may 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 a minimum of 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 information it mentioned supported its place.
On 7 October, Governor Umo Eno declared a state of emergency within the schooling sector and authorised recruiting an extra 2,000 lecturers.
The new directive on faculty attendance provides enforcement towards truancy and non-enrolment to the challenges dealing with the state’s schooling authorities.
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