South Africa Request Nigerian Teachers

Erasmus Alaneme,Abuja — Federal Government has stated that all hope is not lost for Nigerians education sector, disclosing that plans are on the way to send teachers to help out in the South Africa education system.

Education Minister, Dr. Sam Egwu who made this known said that contrary to reports that Nigeria is worse off in term of teaching force, the South African educational system was in dire need of teaching personnel particularly at the basic education level.

As a result the Minister said there is plan to assist the South African Government in salvaging its educational system by offering to recruit some teaching staff from Nigeria that would be interested in going to the country to teach in due course.

Egwu spoke over the weekend while receiving the World Bank's African Regional Director for Education, Christopher Ihoms, who visited him in Abuja to intimate him on the level of performance of the STEP-B project in Nigeria. At the meeting, Egwu said: "Nigeria has been able to develop a new roadmap in education which principally seeks to enable the country reposition its educations structure.

"However, it was in that same roadmap that government insisted that issues of award of court or procurement should he completely decentralized to the end users, because the end user knows where the shoe pinches and should be able to be held accountable for observed lapses.

"I must disclosed that a lot of African countries depend on us to lead in the education sector, for instance the curriculum we developed, especially in technical and vocation courses attracted many countries in the West African region.


"Some of them have actually demanded for copies of our education roadmap and currently. South Africa has also applied through writing asking us that they need teachers from Nigeria, particularly in the areas of science and mathematics, for which advertisements will soon be placed in national dailies to recruit Nigerians who are qualified and interested in going to teach in South Africa to apply."

Meanwhile, the world Bank's African Regional Director for Education, Uhomas said in the course of the assessment of the bank's educational programs in the country, which spans through States education project, the STEP-B and the Lagos Eko projects a sense of commitment was generally observed by those mandated to drive the schemes.

According to Thomas: "we saw progrmems where teachers tried to use their creativity in bringing p young students in early Childhood Adult education progrmmes, trying to prepare their basic numeric and.

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I really dont know if our minister should be boasting about this.It is a known fact that SA has got a skill shortage when it comes teaching of science and mathematics and they have been recruiting such skills from other countries to solve this problem. If what the minister said goes through, surely it means Nigeria stands to lose some of its best teachers as SA will not take just anybody. So how is this positive for Nigeria,honourable minister?

Do we have enough teachers in Nigeria?
Are we treating the ones we have  fairly?
Do they have the right environment and tools?

This Sam Egwu sef. He must be very sick in the Head.

the matter of our minister be like dog wey see bone leave am go carry shit!!! what in the world is this about? why cant we develop ourselves rather than buying into greedy minded ideas of our leaders im sure the yeye man don see opportunity to make some money for him and him family

Dr. Sam, u are totally crazy if not send your children. to those that wanna go sign direct contract less than $8000/month doesn't what it.

You can't give what you don't have,simple!

 >:(Its obvious we have too many mad people in power. How in the world could a sane minister of education even consider the idea of recruiting 9ja teachers to help out the south africans? Is the minister not aware we have an acute shortage of science teachers in our education system? I served in enugu state last year and in my place of primary assingment, they had NO SCIENCE TEACHER! NOT EVEN ONE! We were told that they used to have ONE-and he alone taught ALL the science subjects- ALL! I f you ask any corp member serving in a secondary school(especially in a rural area), he will most likely tell you that science(maths,physics,chemistry,biology,agric) corpers are rarely rejected. It is obvious the minister is out of touch with the reality in Nigeria.

this is good news it simply means we have the manpower necessary to create a world class education system, all we need do now is to provide the infrastructural amenities needed,

Does it take South Africa's request for teachers to show that we have the manpower to create a world class educational system? And how will this benefit the country in anyway? If your govt. is sending teachers to SA, who will teach the new generation of kids, especially kids in the villages?

Thanks but no thanks. They just want a reason to be able to round us up and deport us as illegal immigrants in future. It will really help their depleted ego. I'll rather teach Somalis in the school of naval piracy.

Let hope this work out well and positive

The ones we have, how well do we(FG) treat them.

That's the point. The govt. should try to treat the teachers well rather than send them away, and the govt. is using the request from SA as a justification of how good our education system is. So when next the govt. is criticized for being inept at dealing with our educational crisis, the govt. will reply with, well, SA has requested teachers from us so our education system must be good; and most West African countries have demanded our curricula so our education must be good. Ideally, the teachers are free to pursue more lucrative opportunities with the SA govt. or with any other foreign entity, but the government should not mediate this exodus.

Nigerian teachers that shell like crazy. Saw some interviews with them.  .  . .    I almost fainted.

what exactly is your point.

All these brain drain talk is BS. if you treat them well, they would stay.