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Nigeria’s headscarf crisis festered Friday after footage emerged online of school guards and teachers ordering Muslim girls to remove their headscarves before entering a school compound in the<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nigeria’s headscarf crisis festered Friday after footage emerged online of school guards and teachers ordering Muslim girls to remove their headscarves before entering a school compound in the southwestern town of Ibadan.<\/p>\n

The video sparked outrage on social media as Nigerians took sides mostly along religious lines over a topic that has become the subject of a long-drawn legal war.<\/p>\n

The 45-second clip was filmed at The International School, Ibadan.<\/p>\n

“Let them go to hell!” a teacher was heard shouting at one student\u2019s mother, who said the school\u2019s action was a recipe for a national crisis.<\/p>\n

“You people are just looking for a problem,” she jeered as her daughter was directed to pull off her hijab.<\/p>\n

The teachers, however, said the children were free to wear the headscarves outside the school premises.<\/p>\n

Gimba Kakanda, a public affairs analyst, said the action taken by the school amounted to “targeted discrimination”.<\/p>\n

In a landmark judgment in 2016, Nigeria’s Appeal Court ruled that the hijab qualifies as a constitutional right and should be allowed in school or anywhere, striking down the ruling of a lower court that had upheld its ban in southwestern Lagos state. The government has since appealed the ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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