TRCN Reveals Number of Registered Teachers in Nigeria

The Federal Government has said that although Nigeria has two million qualified and registered teachers, the country is in need of 250,000 teachers annually to cater to the growing population of pupils.

This was made known by the Registrar of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, Prof. Olusegun Ajiboye.

Ajiboye noted that as a country with the largest number of out-of-school there was a need for adequate teachers to meet the learning and teaching needs of children.
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ASUU FIRES BACK AT CHIEF BISI AKANDE FOR CALLING UNION VAGABONDS

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has attacked the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its former national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande.

ASUU described Akande as the grandfather of half-baked government.

This was in reaction to Akande’s earlier attack on the union where he accused the striking lecturers of producing vagabonds and unemployable graduates.
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Strike: ASUU Warns of Imminent Anarchy in UNILAG

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter has warned of imminent anarchy in the institution over an alleged autocratic handling of the school by the Pro-Chancellor.

It also decried the alleged antics of the Pro-Chancellor, Dr. Wale Babalakin to scuttle the ongoing ASUU strike through divide and rule mechanism.

Chairman, ASUU-UNILAG in a release signed by the ASUU Lagos Zone chapter chair, Professor Olusiji Sowande warned that the continuation of Dr. Babalakin as the Pro-Chancellor represents present and future danger to the existence of the University of Lagos.
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ADDRESSING CHALLENGES OF UNQUALIFIED TEACHERS

The declaration by the Federal Government that unqualified teachers, who are not yet licensed and registered by the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), would be flushed out by 2019 did not come as a surprise given numerous challenges facing the delivery of qualitative education in the country. Even before issuing the deadline, the high rate of unqualified teachers has constituted a threat to the nation’s education sector. It is alarming that 207,818 unqualified teachers are in primary schools across the country, as declared by TRCN based on a survey carried out last year by the Federal Government.

The survey conducted by the Federal Government revealed that of the 207,818 unqualified teachers in the primary school sub-sector, the North-East geopolitical zone had the highest figure of 57.7 per cent. The Council traced this misfortune to the invasion of Boko Haram insurgents and other militias that ravaged the nation with the North-West having 46.8 per cent; North-Central 38 per cent; South-South 19.2 per cent, South- East 16.7 per cent and South-West 6.7 per cent unqualified teachers. Unfortunately, beyond the crisis of massive unqualified teachers, it is sad that the system is bogged down by challenges of low period of internship for teachers, high teacher-pupil ratio, politicisation of education and unwarranted government interferences, poor funding and irregular budgetary
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NYSC CANCELS DAVIDO ONE YEAR MANDATORY SCHEME

National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) has cancelled the compulsory one-year orientation exercise embarked on by Nigerian musician David Adeleke popularly known as Davido.

The ‘Fall’ singer revealed the scheme cancelled his service in a comment he made on Instagram.

Reacting to a post made by Adesegun Adeosun, Nigerian music promoter better known as Smade, who just finished his three-week NYSC orientation program and got a letter of recommendation, Davido wrote:
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