The Executive Secretary, Benue State Teaching Service Board, Prof. Wilfred Uji has said that the state needs 5,000 secondary school teachers to adequately cater for the pupils. He further said that over 200,000 students and more than 1,000 secondary school teachers in public secondary schools in the state were forced out of school due to Fulani herdsmen invasion of the state in 2018. Uji further said that over 20 out of the 64 government-owned secondary schools were attacked across the state. ALSO READ:According to him, ’20 out of the 64 government-owned secondary schools were completely razed down as a result of the invasion, disclosing that one teacher lost his life during the attacks. “At one instance, the herdsmen wrote a letter to the principal of Community Secondary School, Tongov in Katsina-Ala local government area and the man died later.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 13, 2019 17:01 UTC