Taraba Commissioner for Education,
Johanes Jigem, on Wednesday, said the
government would soon recruit 3,000
professional teachers to address the
shortage of teachers in the state`s
secondary schools.
Jigem disclosed this at the
commissioning of the State Chapter of the
Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Lodge in
Karim-Lamido Local Government Area.
He said the recruitment, which was under
the “Taraba State Teachers Rescue
Scheme,” would provide at least 10
teachers to each of about 262 public
secondary schools in the state.
The commissioner said the teachers to be
recruited would be holders of National
Certificates of Education (NCE) and
Bachelors of Education (B.Ed.) while non-
professionals might be considered
thereafter.
Jigem announced that the government
had resolved to pay the salaries of
teachers whose names were not captured
in its payroll either by commission or
omission.
He said the resolution was on
compassionate ground because the
affected teachers had undergone untold
hardship due to the non-payment of their
salaries.
Earlier, the State NUT Chairman, Aliyu
Mafindi, said the lodge was built through
the Teachers Development Levy and
Teachers Welfare Scheme to generate
revenue for the union.
He noted that the lodge was the second
commercial lodge in Karim-Lamido,
saying that it would ameliorate
accommodation challenges for visitors to
the area.
Mafindi said the NUT had earlier
commissioned prototypes of the lodge in
Jalingo and Bali local councils, while the
project had reached advanced level of
completion in Wukari.
The chairman said he would soon
inaugurate a committee to monitor the
lodges quarterly to ensure they were
properly maintained.