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Gbeminiyi Ogunleye
2 weeks ago
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Muslim girls told to remove hijab or leave UI International School as court overturns 2022 ruling
The Court of Appeal has overturned a 2022 judgment allowing Muslim girls to wear hijab at the International School, University of Ibadan, prompting the school to issue a fresh directive.
The Court of Appeal overturned a 2022 judgment that allowed Muslim students to wear hijab at the International School, University of Ibadan.
The school has directed that, from Monday, students must comply with its uniform policy and not wear hijab with the school uniform.
MURIC has appealed to the Supreme Court and is seeking to stop the ruling from taking effect while the case is heard.
Eleven Muslim girls at the International School, University of Ibadan, lost a legal battle eight years in the making on Friday, after a Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan overturned an earlier ruling that had permitted them to wear hijab as part of their school uniform.
The appellate court, in a split decision of two to one, ruled that the Supreme Court's existing judgment allowing hijab in schools applies strictly to public institutions, and that ISI, which it classified as a private school, is not bound by it.
