THE State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare has appealed to the elders and community leaders at Imodje-Orogun in Ughelli North Local Government Area to check the encroachment of land speculators into Imodje Grammar School. Prof. Muoboghare made the appeal in the town when he visited the school and discovered that parts of the school land were being unlawfully taken over by some indigenes. He said that the act was unacceptable and therefore appealed to the community to help the Ministry safeguard the school’s land, stressing that if this was not nipped in the bud, the entire…
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