Anambra govt bans closure of colleges on Mondays

The Anambra State Authorities has banned Monday college closures, ordering all schooling employees to renew instantly or threat dropping 20% of their salaries.

That is in line with a round by Anambra State Common Fundamental Training Board dated January 22, 2026, signed by the Board Secretary, Hon. Mgbemena Loveline E.

The directive was issued following the State Govt Council retreat held on Tuesday, January 21, 2026, and presided over by Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo.

What the state stated 

The state authorities stated the choice marked the top of what it described because the protracted Monday sit-at-home in Anambra State.

In line with the directive, all workers, each instructing and non-teaching, are anticipated to report back to their places of work and colleges each Monday with out exception.

“By this directive, any workers, each tutorial and non-tutorial, who fail to attend to high school or workplace on Monday will both obtain 20% of his/her wage or forfeit it fully,” they acknowledged 

ASUBEB directed everlasting board members, schooling officers throughout the 21 native authorities schooling authorities, zonal administrators, and departmental administrators on the board’s headquarters in Awka to make sure full compliance.

All supervising officers have been instructed to speak the directive to workers beneath their authority and implement adherence accordingly.

The board harassed that the directive represents an government resolution of the Anambra State Authorities and should be handled as such.

Backstory

The Monday sit-at-home order in Anambra and the broader South-East area started in August 2021 when the Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB) introduced that residents ought to keep at residence each Monday as a civil protest to strain the Nigerian authorities for the discharge of IPOB’s detained chief, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who was dealing with trial on terrorism-related costs.

• The management of IPOB later suspended the necessary weekly sit-at-home in late 2021, saying it could observe sit-at-home solely on particular days tied to Kanu’s court docket appearances.
• Nonetheless, the apply persevered in lots of communities, largely as a result of pro-Biafran factions and a few armed components continued to implement it.
• A report by SBM Intelligence says the sit-at-home shutdowns enforced in southeastern Nigeria since August 2021 have inflicted large financial injury, with losses estimated at about N7.6 trillion over 4 years.

What you need to know 

For the previous 4 years plus, instructing time has been misplaced and tutorial calendars disrupted as repeated Monday closures drive colleges to droop classes, cut back contact hours, and compress syllabuses into fewer days.

• The state governments have repeatedly directed civil servants to renew work on Mondays and used public bulletins to encourage residents and merchants to disregard sit-at-home directives.
• Safety businesses have additionally elevated patrols and neighborhood outreach to reassure the general public and stop violent enforcement.
• Nonetheless, compliance stays uneven, with some areas reopening whereas others proceed to look at the sit-at-home as a consequence of concern and security considerations.