Abia govt to employ 2,500 teachers

The Abia State Government has announced its readiness to employ 2,500 teachers to address the shortage of teachers in primary and secondary schools across the state.

The Abia State Commissioner for Basic Education, Goodluck Ubochi, made this known at a press conference on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting in Umuahia, the state capital, on Tuesday, January 21, 2025.

Ubochi said the initiative would serve as a veritable tool for improving the quality of education in Abia State.

The commissioner stated: “We are embarking on massive employment of teachers.

“We will employ 2,500 teachers to make sure we cover the gap that has been bothering us in the system.

“There is no way you can talk about quality education without teachers and in our schools; we don’t have a sufficient number of teachers to handle most of the subjects.

“People have been speculating that we heard you are employing teachers; within the week we are going to make public the modalities.”.

Ubochi said applications for the job would be processed online to ensure transparency and accessibility.

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Ubochi stated that the details of the application process would be made public by Friday, January 24.

He added: “It is not going to be a process where you bring your application to the ministry or to anybody, because we are going to have a platform where you will do it online.

“So if you have people let them just keep their ears to the ground between now and Friday, the announcement would go forth.”

The commissioner further stated that the Abia State Government had established a taskforce named “Education Marshalls” to drive the enforcement of its free and compulsory basic education programme.

Ubochi said the taskforce would ensure that all school-age children in the state would be in school during school hours.

According to him, children found loitering during school hours would be taken to the nearest school, with their parents or guardians contacted to address the situation.

The Star