In what appeared like acts of disobedience, the management of Amen International School has reportedly ignored Imo State Government instruction to Private School Owners issued out through the Ministry of Education.
Recall that the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Imo State through a special announcement by the Commissioner Hon. B.T.E. Ikegwuoha, ordered a stop to incessant levies of pupils and parents.
The public announcement read in parts! " as all schools are resuming on Monday, September 8, 2025, and many students will be admitted into JSS 1 and SSS 1 for the 2025/2026 academic year, the issue where parents are asked, as a prerequisite for admitting their sons and daughters into JSS 1 and SSS 1, to bring shovels, hoes, cutlasses, rakes, brooms, moping sticks and buckets, hypos, detergents, bottles of dettol, soap of all kinds, toilet paper, A4 paper and to a great extent, they’re also asked to pay some admission levies, and examination fees, in both private and public schools (except those living in boarding schools) is now of serious concern to the Ministry and the Hon. Commissi
oner. Consequently, therefore, the Hon. Commissioner for Primary and Secondary Education, Prof. B.T. O. Ikegwuoha has requested that this practice be stopped forthwith.
Please note that all textbooks already purchased by pupils and students are to be in use for 4 years, which ends in August 2026 when new list of approved textbooks will be introduced and *they will be in circulation for 4 years, ending in August 2030.
Additionally, the Ministry has abolished the printing of textbooks with workbooks embedded inside them by authors and publishers, thus prohibiting the re-use of textbooks by younger siblings of graduating relatives, brothers and sisters.
This practice will no longer be tolerated. Henceforth workbooks are to be printed and distributed separately. All authors and publishers for Imo State School System have already been notified.
All Principals of Junior and Senior Secondary Schools are by this notice, asked to stop this illegal practice, Parents, guardians, pupils, students and all stakeholders in Imo State, to report any complaints regarding Princicipals and Primary School HMs flouting or disobeying Government approved policies, including but not limited to the sale and use of textbooks every year by schools (private or public).
Many secondary schools (private and public) have gone as far as asking parents, guardians, students, etc., to bring during admission the following items and materials: A4 paper even after paying for exam fees, some go as far as disobeying regulations and education policies.
The above information is aimed at curbing extortion from private school owners and public schools’ HMs and Principals".
Available reports in public domain has fingered the management of Amen International School with allegations that the management of the school is flouting and disobeying government approved policies by selling text books and giving students books to do their assignment inside the text books.
There are reports that the management is boasting of their connection to the high and mighty and they can do what they want and nothing will happen.
When contracted with a number of the school management on Friday by 10:52 in 2 Minutes 38; seconds call, by the Chairman, Nigeria Guild of Newspaper Reporters, NUJ-GNR a female staff of the school denied the allegation, stating that they have always complied to the instruction.
She noted that those who brought in tissue, soap and other items are the ones in the boarding school.
Further efforts made to verify additional allegations from the management proved abortive as she banged the call to avoid further questions.