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Teenager Bags Life Sentence For Killing 2 Teachers In Sweden

Teenager Bags Life Sentence For Killing 2 Teachers In Sweden

September 9, 2022 4:29 am

A court in  Sweden has sentenced an 18-year-old student to life in jail over the killing of two teachers with an axe sometime in March of this year. He is believed to be the youngest person to receive the sentence in Sweden’s modern history.

The young man was arrested shortly after the attack at Malmo Latin School, a creative arts high school, which has more than 1,000 students in Sweden’s third-biggest city Malmo in southern Sweden.

‘These are two very brutal murders where the victims greatly suffered and experienced severe fear of death,’ judge Johan Kvart said in a statement, …

13 Teachers Gets New SUVs In Lagos From Sanwo-Olu

13 Teachers Gets New SUVs In Lagos From Sanwo-Olu

June 30, 2022 5:15 am

The Government of Lagos State on Wednesday unveiled a set of technology-driven modular learning spaces which is aimed at introducing an innovation to the design of a modern classroom. This was even as the State government announced the donation of SUV vehicles to 13 teachers in the state. 

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, while commissioning a nine-classroom block built to replace decrepit concrete structures in Vetland Junior Grammar School, a government-owned model college in Agege Local Government Area revealed that the interactive modular classrooms were improvised using standardised reusable freight compartments known as container. 

Each of the classroom compartments is adequately insulated …

El-Rufai Sacks Over 2000 Teachers ‘For Incompetence’

El-Rufai Sacks Over 2000 Teachers For ‘Incompetence’ In Kaduna

June 20, 2022 6:50 am

The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (KADSUBEB) has sacked 2,357 teachers for their inability to pass the competence test held in the state.

KADSUBEB’s public relations officer, Hauwa Mohammed, said in a statement that the Board conducted a competence exam for over 30,000 instructors in December 2021.

She said that 2,192 elementary school teachers had been fired for refusing to take the test, including the National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT).

According to her, 165 of the 27,662 teachers who took the competency test were fired because of unsatisfactory results.

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El-Rufai Sacks 233 Teachers, Schedules Fresh Competency Test

Kaduna Sacks 233 Teachers, Schedules Fresh Competency Test

December 3, 2021 12:51 am

The Government of Kaduna State has announced the sack of no fewer than 233 teachers for presenting fake certificates upon the time of their recruitment.

Tijjani Abdullahi, the Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board made this disclosure on Thursday during a press conference in Kaduna.

He explained that the teachers were sacked after inquiries from the institutions they claimed to have attended, which showed that they presented fake certificates.

The decision to investigate the certificates of the teachers, the SUBEB Chairman explained, commenced in April 2021 as part of the board’s responsibility to ensure that all teachers actually …

19,273 Teachers Fail Professional Qualifying Examination

December 21, 2019 2:04 pm

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Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, the Registrar, Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Ajiboye said 72,947, out of 77,296 teachers that registered, participated in the examination.

“The result was not bad, because the average performance of those who passed the examination is 73.58 per cent, which is 53,674 candidates, while 26.42 per cent, representing 19,273 candidates, failed.

“The performances of the candidates are very encouraging; the Federal Ministry of Education and TRCN Governing Board are happy with it,” he said.

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NUT Berates N-Power, Seeks Full-term Teachers’ Employment

November 20, 2019 8:25 am

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has stated that the federal government’s N-Power Scheme is not suitable for the strengthening of the capacity of early child education and does not conform with best practises for a holistic and functional development of the child.

The President of the union, Dr. Nasir Idris said this in Abuja at a four-day workshop on learning through play for early child education teachers, which was organised by the union, in partnership with Danish Union of Early Childhood and Youth Educators (BUPL).

Idris, who was represented by the first National Vice- President of the union, Akosile …

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C’River: 500 Sacked Teachers Occupy Gov’t House With Mats

November 12, 2019 12:26 pm
Determined to fight against their sack, 500 science teachers have again barricaded the government house with mats and wrappers demanding their reinstatement into the service.
Penultimate Tuesday the workers had protested against government’s removal of their names from payroll since September.
The teachers, who carried various placards such as “reinstate our names into pay roll;” “pay us our September and October salaries,” prevented movements in and out of the governor’s office.
At the governor’s office, the protesters were seen with wrappers and mats which they spread on the ground to prevent movements in an out of the office.
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US: Chicago Teachers Strike Ends After 11 Days

US: Chicago Teachers Strike Ends After 11 Days

November 1, 2019 7:44 am

Chicago Public School teachers and students will return to school on Friday after educators reached a contract deal with the United States’s third-largest school district, ending a strike that began on October 17 and cancelled 11 days of school, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Thursday.

The deal brings an end to the longest strike since 1987, when teachers refused to work for 19 days.

“The teachers will be back in class; the students will be back in class tomorrow,” Lightfoot said at City Hall Thursday after a two-hour meeting with Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Jesse Sharkey.

The CTU reached

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Suspected Jihadists Kidnap Six Teachers In Mali - Security

Suspected Jihadists Kidnap Six Teachers In Mali – Security

October 25, 2019 4:55 pm
Six school teachers were kidnapped Friday by suspected jihadists in central Mali because they spoke French in the classroom, local and security forces said.

More than 900 schools have closed in the country, one of the poorest in the world, with more than two-thirds of them in central regions that since 2012 have witnessed insurrections by separatists, Salafists and jihadists, interlaced with inter-ethnic violence.

“Terrorists kidnapped six teachers from a school in Korientze because they were teaching in French,” a security source told AFP.

Malian officials use the word “terrorist” to describe jihadists.

A municipal council member added that the

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Makinde Grants Approval For Recruitment Of Teachers

Makinde Grants Approval For Recruitment Of Teachers

October 24, 2019 2:53 pm
  • Threatens to deal with saboteurs of education policies

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, announced that he had given approval for the recruitment of teachers into the state’s teaching service, noting that his government is re-engineering education for “long-lasting positive results.”

A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the Governor stated this while speaking at the commissioning of a ₦50 million multipurpose hall donated to the Ilora Baptist Grammar School, Ilora, by an old student, Mr. Remi Oyekola.

The statement also quoted the Governor as indicating that the state government …

Oyo Government To Recruit More Teachers Soon – Makinde

Oyo Government To Recruit More Teachers Soon – Makinde

October 19, 2019 2:50 pm

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo state, says the state government would soon recruit more teachers to enhance quality education delivery in public schools across the state.

Makinde stated this at the 90th anniversary of Government College, Ibadan on Saturday.

He said the recruitment of more qualified teachers in public schools in the state, would go a long way in improving the performance of public school pupils and students in national examinations.

The governor reiterated the readiness of his administration to reclaim the lost glory in the educational sector.

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He said …

In Kogi: 1,520 Teachers Write Professional Examination

In Kogi: 1,520 Teachers Write Professional Examination

October 11, 2019 1:33 pm

No fewer than 1, 520 teachers in Kogi state are writing professional examination that would qualify them to be certified as professional teachers. Mrs Zainab Lawal, the State Coordinator, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), disclosed this on Friday at the examination venue at YABMA International Science Academy, Lokoja.

”We are professionalising qualified teachers who had gone through the pedagogy of either being an NCE holder or B.Ed holder or B.Sc; as the case may be, but had gone through PGD to qualify them as professional teachers.

”In Kogi, we have a total of 1, 520 teachers writing the TRCN

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