{"id":868237,"date":"2025-08-26T23:13:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/sowores-arrest-may-lead-to-civil-unrest-and-anarchy-ohanaeze\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T23:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:13:44","slug":"sowores-arrest-may-lead-to-civil-unrest-and-anarchy-ohanaeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/sowores-arrest-may-lead-to-civil-unrest-and-anarchy-ohanaeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowore\u2019s arrest may lead to civil unrest and anarchy \u2014 Ohanaeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Gbolahan Adetayo, a Nigerian journalist, actor, and filmmaker, has called on the Federal Ministry of Education and State Ministries of Education to review the culture of school graduation ceremonies, restricting them to Primary 6, Senior Secondary School 3 (SS3), and university levels.<br \/>\nIn a statement he lamented the growing trend of class-to-class graduation events in both private and public schools, describing them as a \u201ccommercialized\u201d practice that places unnecessary financial burdens on parents.<br \/>\nHe recalled that in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, graduation ceremonies were meaningful occasions reserved for students completing significant stages of education.<br \/>\n\u201cThis culture is not just ridiculous, it\u2019s wicked. Parents are forced to pay for graduation parties every year, from cr\u00e8che to the university,\u201d he said, warning that the practice has pushed some families into debt and extreme hardship.<br \/>\nAdetayo criticized the mounting costs associated with these events, including levies for gowns, decorations, food, entertainment, and photography, often for students moving from one class to another within the same school.<br \/>\nHe stressed that such practices diminish the significance of academic milestones and send the wrong message about the value of hard work, especially in a time when many Nigerian families are struggling economically.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Ministry of Education must rise to the occasion. Let\u2019s return to when graduation was a big deal, not a financial trap,\u201d he said, urging authorities to make it mandatory that only Primary 6, SS3, and final-year university students hold graduation ceremonies.<br \/>\nDescribing the issue as a \u201cnational concern,\u201d Adetayo appealed to policymakers, school owners, and education stakeholders to stop the commercialization of education and restore the tradition of celebrating genuine academic progress.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> danivert<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thesun.ng\/sowores-arrest-may-lead-to-civil-unrest-and-anarchy-ohanaeze-2\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gbolahan Adetayo, a Nigerian journalist, actor, and filmmaker, has called on the Federal Ministry of Education and State Ministries of Education to review the culture of school graduation ceremonies, restricting them to Primary 6, Senior Secondary School 3 (SS3), and university levels. In a statement he lamented the growing trend of class-to-class graduation events in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":868238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1371,145854],"tags":[6785,145853],"class_list":{"0":"post-868237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arrest","8":"category-sowores","9":"tag-arrest","10":"tag-sowores"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}