After laying off the 22,000 primary school teachers who failed a competency test based on questions meant for primary four pupils, it has been unable to fully replace the incompetent teachers. The Kaduna State universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) had earlier advertised 25,000 vacancies for classroom teachers. It will be recalled that we had commended the state government in our previous editorials when it insisted on disengaging some unfit teachers because we believe that incompetent teachers are a problem for the system. But the point being made is that they should not have found their way into the final list in the first place. Clearly, the state government has a bounden duty to find out and prosecute those who smuggled the names of the incompetent teachers into the final list.

Source: Nigerian Tribune May 07, 2018 11:15 UTC