As a new academic term approaches, school proprietors across Nigeria prepare for the familiar flurry of activity involving restocking and repairs, fee notices, staff planning, and academic/extra-curricular scheduling. Alongside these costly and demanding tasks lies another recurring burden of annual tussles with government bureaucracy over school operations.
This experience increasingly forces proprietors to question the value of acquiring the much appraised government approval form the ministry of education for their schools in the first pl
