{"id":2510,"date":"2024-08-28T03:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2024-08-28T03:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T03:24:14","slug":"alleged-bullying-anambra-govt-shuts-down-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/alleged-bullying-anambra-govt-shuts-down-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Bullying: Anambra Govt Shuts down School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.1429rem\">The Anambra State Government has announced the immediate closure of Upcoming Star International School at Ifite Road, Awka, over alleged bullying of a seven-year-old pupil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, announced in Awka on Tuesday that the government responded to a report that the pupil\u2019s classmate allegedly broke her leg.<\/p>\n<p>Chuma-Udeh revealed that when the school\u2019s proprietor was invited for questioning, it was discovered the school was not approved to operate.<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;The pupil was bullied by her classmate, which caused her to break her leg, and the matter was reported to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school proprietor, Mr Uchechukwu Onyeachonam, was invited for questioning and he admitted that the offence was committed in his school; it was also discovered the school was not approved by the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGov. Chukwuma Soludo, however, directed that the school be sealed before 2 pm today. This is because the continued existence of such illegal schools has been causing mayhem to children in the state,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner, however, warned that proprietors of illegal schools would be handed over to law enforcement agents for contravening the laws of the state while calling on parents to desist from sending their children and wards to unapproved schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anambra State Government has announced the immediate closure of Upcoming Star International School at Ifite Road, Awka, over alleged bullying of a seven-year-old pupil. The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, announced in Awka on Tuesday that the government responded to a report that the pupil\u2019s classmate allegedly broke her leg. Chuma-Udeh revealed that when the school\u2019s proprietor was invited for questioning, it was discovered the school was not approved to operate. She said, &#8220;The pupil was bullied by her classmate, which caused her to break her leg, and the matter was reported to the ministry. \u201cThe school proprietor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[52,433,432],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-gov-chukwuma-soludo","tag-ifite-road-anambra","tag-upcoming-star-international-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}