Concession of Kings College: Parents threaten to shut down unity colleges

…Say public schools shouldn’t be commercialised By Adesina Wahab Unity colleges in the country may not be able to resume academic activities on September 14, 2026, as planned, as parents of students in those schools plan to shut down the schools to show their displeasure with the concession of Kings College to the Old Boys Association by the Federal Ministry of Education.“We are deeply concerned that the proposed concession of Kings College may represent the beginning of a wider attempt to commercialise public education and make Federal Unity Colleges unaffordable for children from average- and low-income Nigerian families.”“On behalf of concerned parents and Parent-Teacher Association stakeholders across Federal Unity Colleges in the South-West, we state as follows: ‘We strongly oppose any arrangement capable of making Unity Colleges unaffordable or inaccessible to ordinary Nigerian children.