Akwa Ibom local council bans use of pupils for manual labour in schools
“The era of making our young ones abandon what took them to school to work all day for any school head or teacher is over,” the council chairman said.
“The era of making our young ones abandon what took them to school to work all day for any school head or teacher is over,” the council chairman said.
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