Ogun State Government, South West Nigeria, has barred pupils without 70 per cent attendance from writing examinations.
Gatekeepers News reports that the state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Abayomi Arigbabu, made this known during a visit to Abeokuta Girls Grammar School, Onikolobo, Abeokuta.
Arigbabu said this was part of measures put in place to reduce misdemeanour in schools.
He added that to make the measure effective, private schools had been directed not to admit any pupil expelled from a government school.
He said: “Absenteeism of learners in schools is worrisome to us as a government. This, we believe, is also part of the behaviour we frown at.
“We have therefore ensured digitalisation of names of our learners. This will make it impossible for anyone that does not record 70 per cent attendance to sit for any examination.”
