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Lagos government promotes 8,617 school teachers.

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The Lagos State government has promoted 8,617 public primary school teachers in furtherance of its objective to motive its work force, especially those in the education sector to impact sound knowledge on their pupils.

 

The Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr Ganiyu Oluremi Sopeyin, who disclosed this yesterday to journalists in Lagos said the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the promotion.

 

He explained that the promotion exercise has cleared the back logs inherited by the present administration in the state primary schools.

 

Sopeyin stated that 10,851 public primary school teachers of different grade levels sat for for the promotion examination adding that the exercise could not have being possible without the passion of the Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode for the welfare of public school teachers.

 

He assured that the state government will continue to provide for the needs of basic education in order to ensure qualitative and quantitative education in a conducive atmosphere in the state.

Unpaid Salaries: Cross River State Teachers Shun Resumption

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Primary school teachers in Cross River State on Wednesday shunned resumption over unpaid four months salaries owed them by the government.

Punch NG report that Pupils in the primary and secondary schools across the state were supposed to resume for the 2016/2017 session on Wednesday, after the long summer holidays.

But while teachers in the secondary schools resumed for duties, their colleagues in primary schools shunned work, due to the inability of the state government to pay their four months salaries before the holiday elapsed.

Our correspondent, who visited few primary schools in Calabar South and Calabar Municipal local government areas observed that pupils were turned back home.

“This strike was necessitated by the fact that the government cannot expect us to work for free when we have responsibilities to take care of. All of these mean that the primary school system in the state will suffer and this should ordinarily not be the case,” a teacher in one of the primary schools, who claimed anonymity said.

The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Mr. Eyo-Nsa Itam, confirmed that all primary school teachers across the state were asked to stay off duty to press for the payment.

When contacted, the state Commissioner for Education, Mr. Goddy Etta, said the teachers would resume on Monday as efforts were ongoing to pay the salaries.