By Aminu Kutama
The Kaduna State government says it has concluded plans to recruit 10,000 primary school teachers to replace those disengaged to improve the teacher-pupil ratio.
News Agency of Nigeria reports that The deputy governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, made this known in Kaduna, yesterday, at the inauguration of the distribution of learning materials to pupils in 4,260 public primary schools and 838 learning centres.
The state government had on June 19, announced the sack of 2,357 primary school teachers for failing the government’s competency tests.
The El-Rufai-led government had previously in 2018 sacked 21,780, for failing a similar test while 233 others were sacked in December 2021 for allegedly presenting fake certificates.
The deputy governor said the government shall continue to weed unqualified teachers in public schools and no amount of distraction would stop it. Adding, that the state government had renovated more than 500 public primary and secondary schools and provided perimeter fencing in many schools as required by the UN agencies for the security of children.
“The quality of instruction is very important in determining the educational outcomes of our children and we cannot allow only the children of a few to steal the advantage that education provides.
