The details of the law have not yet been signed off but Tesfaye said mobile phones and personal tablets will not be allowed at school, neither during break times nor during lessons.

The plan follows recommendations from a youth wellbeing commission, which also recommended restricting the use of smartphones to those aged 13 and older.

The President of the commission, Rasmus Meyer, said the age restriction was clearly not something that should be decided by law.

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The announcement was made in a statement shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday.

The video, shared by Oyindamola, who identifies as #dammiedammie35, captured a female teacher slapping the child’s face.

The video was captioned, “Footage from Christ-Mitots School in Ikorodu, a teacher named Stella Nwadigo was witnessed mistreating and physically abusing a three-year-old boy, Abayomi Micheal.

The footage has raised serious concerns about the safety and well-being of our little ones in school.

Reacting to the incident, the Lagos DSVA issued a statement expressing gratitude to those who brought the video to their attention.

The statement reads, “We appreciate everyone who brought the disturbing incident of a teacher who was recorded physically abusing a 3-year-old boy to our attention.

The agency reiterated the state government’s commitment to protecting children, emphasizing that schools must be safe and nurturing spaces.

Source: Punch

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A security source said the incident happened around noon on Monday at an Islamiyyah school in the Kuchibiyu Community of Bwari Area Council, about 42 kilometres from the Abuja city centre.

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It was also gathered that emergency and security personnel, including the police bomb disposal squad, arrived at the scene of the explosion.

The injured victims were taken to a hospital.

However, the police have not yet commented on the incident, and details of the explosion remain unclear.

Source added that the students involved were recently admitted into the school and that they resumed on 3rd January 2025.

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A directive sent by Republican state Superintendent Ryan Walters said the rule was compulsory, requiring immediate and strict compliance.

The rule will apply to lessons for all public school students aged from around 11-18.

It comes a week after Louisiana’s governor signed a law directing all public schools in that state to display the Ten Commandments.

In a statement, Walters described the Bible as “an indispensable historical and cultural touchstone.

His announcement, which covers grades five to 12, drew criticism from civil rights organisations and groups that advocate for a strict separation of church and state.

Walters has previously argued that secularists in the US have created a state religion out of atheism, by driving faith away from the public square.

In an op-ed last year for Fox News, he wrote that US President Joe Biden and the teacher unions had supplanted biblical values with “woke, anti-education values that tell students that they should treat their classmates differently depending on their race and sex and that they should be taught graphic sexual content at a young of an age as possible.

In a statement, the Interfaith Alliance – a US group that seeks to protect religious freedoms – called the Oklahoma superintendent’s directive blatant religious coercion.

It comes a week after Louisiana ordered all classrooms up to university level in the state to display a poster of the Ten Commandments.

Days later, nine families in the state sued Louisiana, marking the start of what some expect will be a protracted legal battle.

The complaint, backed by civil rights groups, argues that such a display violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion, and that the display “pressures” students into adopting the state’s favoured religion.

There have previously been legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings, including in courts, police stations and schools.

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