The new teachers were appointed from Ogun Teaching Experience Acquisition Channel, Ogun Teach.
By Ademu Usman Idakwo
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has approved the employment of 1000 teachers in the state to tackle the lack of teaching staff in the public schools.
The new teachers were employed from the Ogun Teaching Experience Acquisition Channel (OgunTEACh).
OgunTeaCh is an organisation established for intern teachers in the state, and no one among them had been offered a permanent job for the past 12 years until recently.
Governor Abiodun said the decision was to fulfil the promise he made to teachers in the state during the World Teachers Day Celebration on October 5 that he will absorb OgunTeaCh Interns on a permanent appointment.
The governor also announced the employment of 2,000 interns in addition to the 2,000 already employed, making a total of 5,000 intern teachers in the state.
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At the presentation of letters of appointment to the newly recruited teachers, Governor Abiodun noted that successful applicants were chosen based on their resilience, diligence, commitment, and doggedness during the period of their internship.
The governor, represented by the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, said that the giant step was part of the present administration’s effort to improve the standards of education in the state better than before.
He hinted that the employment was to ensure that adequate and enough teachers were injected into the system while reducing overloading on already existing teachers.
It will also ensure the replacement of those who have retired and others who have left the country.
While congratulating the newly employed teachers, he called on them to continue to maintain integrity, diligence, and commitment by putting in their best to take teaching and learning to a higher level.
The commissioner said, “Our governor meant well when he declared an emergency in the education sector. Part of his concern was how to ensure better welfare for teachers, including prompt payment of salaries, creating a conducive teaching and learning environment and injecting enough teachers into the schools’ system to jack up the standard.”
