Gov't, teachers must unite for school sport

Instead, it risks becoming an exercise in empty symbolism, undermined by the government’s baffling refusal to properly consult the very people essential for its success: teachers and their unions. President Duma Boko’s initiative is welcome. The suspension of these vital programmes in 2019, initially blamed on budget woes but rooted in a standoff over fair allowances for teacher-coaches, has done untold damage.

Restoring them is the right thing to do. However, the manner of this relaunch is profoundly ill-advised and threatens to derail it before it even begins.