Governor Al-Makura reveals 80 percent of teachers in Nasarawa are unqualified, speaks on next line of action

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- Governor Umar Tanko Al-Makura says the affected teachers would not be made to face any test

- Al-Makura says Nasarawa state will engage the teachers in series of training

- Professor Bappah Aliyu promises that the current curriculum would be reviewed and new ideas would be injected to boost the quality of graduates in the state

The governor of Nasawara, Umar Tanko Al-Makura, revealed on Monday, January 29, that 80 percent of the teachers in the state are not qualified and would fail an aptitude test if it was administered on them.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports Al-Makura as stating in a speech at the opening ceremony of a conference to review the minimum standards of the National Certificate of Education (NCE), that the government had carried out some research and found that most primary and secondary school teachers should not be in the classes.

The report said Al-Makura, who was represented by Aliyu Tijjani Ahmed, education commissioner, however said that the government would not conduct a test on the teachers.

“We are not planning a test for the teachers; we only intend to train and retrain them so as to build their capacities for better service delivery,” he said while appealing to the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) and other stakeholders to step-up supervision in order to save the sector from total collapse.

The governor advised the reviewers to pay special attention to technical education and entrepreneurship to make NCE graduates more attractive to employers of labour.

The executive secretary of NCCE, Professor Bappah Aliyu, in his speech, said that the conference would review the current curriculum and inject new ideas so as to boost the quality of the graduates.

Aliyu added that such review was last carried out in 2012, and urged stakeholders to offer suggestions that would shore up the quality of colleges of education to enable them produce qualified teachers.

Speaking earlier, Rebecca Umaru, the provost of the college of education in Akwanga, thanked the NCCE for selecting the institution to host the conference.

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She reportedly expressed optimism that the outcome of the conference would keep lecturers and the management of the respective colleges on their toes in the efforts to produce teachers that would be assets to the society.

NAIJ.com earlier reported how the minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu, on Monday, January 29, said the federal government would declare a state of emergency in the education sector in April.

It was gathered that he made this disclosure when he received Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger and some members of his cabinet at the federal ministry of education headquarters in Abuja.

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