"Only employ professionals" - NUT tells FG

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December 30, 2015 11:08 AM

The NUT commended the government on its plans to employ 500,000 teachers for the nation’s basic education and secondary schools

Govt. to employ more teachers

Nigerian Union of Teachers has urged the Federal Government to make sure it only employs professionals for the position of teachers it is aiming to fill in the country.

The NUT commended the government on its plans to employ 500,000 teachers for the nation’s basic education and secondary schools in a statement issued in Abuja by its Secretary General, Obong Ikpe Obong.

In the statement, Obong appreciated the federal government's effort, adding that this will address the long identified problem of shortage of manpower in the nation’s basic education and secondary school system.

The union also insisted that “this planned policy of the Federal Government should only accommodate professional teachers – graduate teachers and NCE holders and not quacks and personnel who have not been duly trained as teachers no matter their qualifications.”

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Obong said, “The NUT will support the Federal Government in the actualisation of this policy but wishes to caution the government against the temptation of using this policy as a means of compensation for political patronage as it was the practice in the past."

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