An Oyo state High Court sitting in Ibadan Wednesday granted female Muslim students at the University of Ibadan International School, Ibadan (ISI) the right to wear hijab on top of their school uniforms.
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Justice Moshood Ishola in his judgememt declared that he based his judgment on previous court judgments at the Supreme Court. He added that the school, as a public institution, should allow female Muslim students the right to wear hijab.
He stated further that the school does not have the right to deny the students their fundamental human rights and that he based all his verdict on the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and other charters, which grant freedom of religion and association.
“The school, staff, or its agents have no right to punish students for using hijab on the school premises or outside the school premises.
Fundamental human rights are inalienable rights and cannot be taken, even by the powerful government. The school is a public institution,” he said.
The crisis of wearing of hijab by female Muslim students of the University of Ibadan International School, Ibadan reared its head in November 2018 when the school management denied some female Muslim students the right to use hijab on top of their uniforms.
