Education
NSUBEB Wants Govt To Recruit 3,000 Teachers
The Niger State Universal Basic Education Board (NSUBEB) has urged the state government to employ 3,000 new teachers to fill vacancies left by those that had died or retired from the service.
Its Chairman, Alhaji Alhassan Bawa, told newsmen on Saturday in Minna that the call became necessary because of the acute shortage of teachers in the primary schools.
“Many teachers have retired, some have died, but they have not been replaced. We want government to look into this situation in the interest of quality education,” Bawa said.
He said that NSUBEB had already sent the request to that effect to the state executive council.
“As I speak with you, the request is before the Commissioner of Education,” he said.
Bawa complained that the operations of the board were hampered by the lingering paucity of funds.
He regretted that the challenge of funding had become “increasingly difficult”, saying that many schools were in bad shape and had remained so in the past 20 years.
The chairman said that government had executed many intervention projects in many schools, but declared that much still needed to be done.
“The rains have set in and the yawning gap is staring at us; roofs of many schools have been destroyed by storm. The situation is tough. When you solve one problem, another sets it,” he said.
Bawa appealed to teachers, parents and students to bear with the government, and assured them that the challenges would be surmounted “as soon as funds are available”.
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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