Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has suspended Danlami Hayyo, the mandate secretary for education, following widespread reports that government schools in the nation’s capital had been directed to shut down on November 28.
Earlier on Tuesday, a memo signed by Alhassan directed all public senior secondary schools in Abuja to shut down on or before Friday, November 28, citing urgent security concerns.
However, in a statement, Lere Olayinka, the senior special assistant on public communications and social media to the FCT minister, said the FCT administration had “debunked the report that all Government Schools in the Federal Capital Territory were mandated to close by November 28, 2025,” insisting that “no such decision was taken at any level of the administration.”
