Private schools operating without approval of Rivers state government to be closed down

  

  Private schools operating without approval of Rivers state government would soon be closed down.
   Handing out this warning during a meeting between proprietors of private schools and the state government, Governor Nyesom Wike, also cautioned them against paying levies to unauthorised individuals.
   According to him, the government will set up a committee to investigate the qualifications of teaching staff of private schools and levies paid by the schools and to whom, as well as the accommodation system of schools and their location.
   Responding, Chairman of the Board of National Association of Proprietors of Private schools, Edna Opara, appealed to the state government to establish a desk in the ministry to attend to matters concerning private schools, even as he expressed her supported for the closure of unapproved private schools .