ABEOKUTA, OGUN– The Ogun State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, has positioned an absolute, instant ban on the organisation of graduation events and end-of-session parties across all public and private schools in the state.
The emergency situation regulative instruction was consisted of in a main circular provided by the Department of Private Schools, Abeokuta, and dispatched to school administrators nationwide through their respective Zonal Education Officers.
Curbing Extortion Under the Guise of School Celebrations
According to top-level authorities within the ministry, the sweeping ban was triggered by a flood of verified reports alleging that both public and private school owners were aggressively extorting parents and guardians.
Administrators were reportedly requiring expensive levies under the guise of financing transition events and end-of-term social parties.
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The federal government noted that these unauthorised monetary needs directly break the binding resolutions mutually concurred upon during the 2025/2026 pre-resumption stakeholders’ conference kept in September 2025 at the Lisabi Grade School Hall, Abeokuta.
The circular highly stressed that the Governor Dapo Abiodun-led administration frowns upon requiring moms and dads to money elegant events during challenging economic times, worrying that no school owner is permitted to host such gatherings henceforth.
“As an outcome, no school owner must arrange such events henceforth,” the main instruction stated clearly.
The ministry alerted that any institution, public or personal, discovered breaching this mandate will face instant, extreme regulative sanctions, including possible suspension of operating licenses.
The circular sent out to all public and independent schools administrators in
the state Strict Compliance Enforcement Deployed
The regulation has been explicitly signed by the Director of Education for Independent Schools, Mr. A.A. Bisiriyu, on behalf of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Mrs. Oluwatosin Oloko.
School principals and proprietors have actually been strictly instructed to offer the circular the best possible publicity within their local parent-teacher associations (PTAs) to ensure total baseline compliance before the ongoing third-term evaluation cycles finish up.
The choice is anticipated to stimulate extreme dispute amongst school owners, who generally rely on graduation events as marketing avenues and auxiliary income streams.
Nevertheless, for thousands of struggling guardians across Ogun State, the intervention provides much-needed financial relief as households want to transition into the new 2026/2027 academic session without extra monetary concerns.