20% Of Kogi Teachers Speak Bad English, Can’t Write Own Names

[Shola Sholaz]

Mr Ndamadu Ali, the Kogi Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs said on Wednesday that more than  20 per cent of public primary school teachers in the state speak bad English.
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Ali made the disclosure while submitting the report of the Committee on biometric data and Certificate verification of the teaching and non-teaching staff to Gov. Idris Wada in Lokoja.
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The commissioner, who also heads the committee, said the teachers could not also spell or write their names correctly.
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He said the committee had established the actual number of teachers in the state to be 24, 335 and not 27, 639 as claimed by State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and Local Government Education Authorities (LGEAs).
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On the teachers' salaries, the committee chairman said the claim by the SUBEB and local education authorities as at May ending was wrong.
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He said that, what government should be paying as the monthly salary of teachers' should be N1.196 billion, and not N1. 320billion as claimed by SUBEB and LGEAs.

[Folami David]

That is just nothing but a big shame on this country's literacy level. Somethin has to be done on time to correct this else the students there are not safe!