Barley one week after the resumption of public schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), parents seeking admission for their children, who have finished primary school, besieged Junior Secondary Schools, Narai Karu and Nyanya II, respectively, for admission.
This followed the lifting of the embargo placed on admission by the FCT Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) management, last week.
Parents were seen with their wards to process the necessary conditions for the exercise, class activities were ongoing when Blueprint visited the schools.
At the Junior Secondary School, Narai Karu, the Principal, Alhaji Yahaya Daudu, said amidst the hardship, parents and guardians had turned out in large numbers to process the admission.
Yahaya, who demanded for basic technology and Yoruba language teachers, stated that more than half population of the old students had resumed with over 78 per cent admission seekers besieging the school.
He disclosed that out of the 353 candidates sent to the school for admission, reasonable number of them had turned out for their prospectuses in order to complete the admission requirements.
At the Junior Secondary School, Nyanya II, the principal attributed the huge turn out to the improvement of the ongoing reforms in public schools.
One of the parents, Mr. Alexander Okpe, who was at JSS Nyanya II with his child for admission, disclosed that with the current hardship in the country, public schools were the alternative.
Okpe decried the consistent school fees increment of fees by private school owners was not helping a common man.
