5,000 new teachers set to resume work in Oyo
All the 2,000 secondary school teachers and 500 non-teaching staff just employed by the Oyo State Government will be presented with their letters of appointment by the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi next week.
He made the disclosure while addressing members of the state branch of the National Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) at the House of Chiefs, Parliament Building, Secretariat, Ibadan.
Governor Ajimobi also said that he had approved the employment of additional 2,500 primary school teachers, stressing that 2,100 of them would be deployed to Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa zones where they were most needed, while the remaining 400 would be for other zones.
All the newly-employed teachers, he said, would resume work during the next academic session scheduled to begin in September 2014.
Governor Ajimobi also said that with effect from the 2014/2015 academic session, all the Primary One pupils in public schools across the state will be enjoying free meal.
This, he said, was aside the on-going conversion of six secondary schools, two from each of the three senatorial districts of the state, to model schools, with all the necessary facilities provided.
All these, he said, were part of his administration’s comprehensive reforms in the education sector, which he said, had been largely neglected by the past administrations.
For instance, he said that secondary school teachers were employed in the state last by the Lam Adesina administration, while the primary school teachers employed mostly from Ibadan and its environs by the Rashidi Ladoja administration in 2005 and deployed to Ogbomoso, Oke-Ogun, Ibarapa and other areas had been agitating for re-deployment back to their base, thus leaving those areas with shortage of teachers.
The state Chairman of NAPTAN, Alhaji Abiodun Jimoh had earlier expressed appreciation to Governor Ajimobi for his efforts at resuscitating the hitherto comatose education sector, stressing “we knew the state of education before the advent of your administration and we know where it is today. The difference is indeed clear’’.
He called for the fencing of public schools to serve as security for all the facilities being provided by government in those schools.
