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REPORT: SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS: Kogi schools turn to PTA for help On A shortage of teachers harms students, teachers and the public education system as a whole. It hampers students’ ability to learn, reduces teachers’ productivity, and consumes economic resources that could be better deployed elsewhere. The state of education in Kogi State at present is in a state of coma. One of the major reasons being the acute shortage of teachers that has bedevilled the state’s education for many years. For example, the staff strength of the basic education teachers in Kogi state as of December 2015 was 23,466 which comprises teaching and non-teaching staff, according to a statement from the state chapter of Basic Education Staff Association of Nigeria, BESAN. ....
Saraki-led Reconciliation Committee in closed-door session with PDP BoT Published Saraki who chairs the committee, made this known via a tweet on his verified Twitter handle. The tweet reads: “As we continue to engage all critical stakeholders in our party, this morning, members of #PDPReconciliation & Strategy Committee and I are consulting with the highly respected members of the PDP Board of Trustees led by the Chairman of the BoT, Senator Walid Jibrin.” DAILY POST recalls that the PDP committee on Wednesday met with former Governors elected on the platform of the party to resolve some crisis currently rocking the party. ....
The Academic Staff Union of Secondary School, (ASUSS), has faulted the claims by the Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT), that some state governors that are not paying teachers’ salary are misleading and using some breakaway members of ASUSS to destabilize the 90-year-old union. ASUSS also refuted the position of NUT that, the Supreme Court in its judgement of January 15, 2021, refused to grant secondary school teachers operating under the umbrella of ASUSS, power to operate as a trade union. In a statement issued to DAILY POST on Thursday by the National President of ASUSS, Comrade Samuel Omaji, through the Kogi State Chairman of the union, Comrade Ranti Ojo, the union maintained that the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment or any court of competent jurisdiction has not cancelled the approval of ASUSS as a trade union as claimed by NUT in a media briefing last week. ....
The Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed into law a bill for the prohibition of violence against persons. Speaker of the House, Hon. Idris Garba ....