Lapai council in Niger elated over posting of 116 N-Teach teachers

Director of Personnel Management, Lapai Local Government Council in Niger state, Alhaji Mohammed Mohammed said on Saturday that about 116 N-Teach Volunteer Corps Teachers posted to the council had helped addressed the problem of dearth of teachers in the area.

Mohammed told our reporter in Lapai that the volunteers were deployed from the Niger State Universal Basic Education Board, through the N-Power Programme of the Federal Government.

Mohammed said they had started redeploying the N-Teach Teachers to the 168 Primary schools in Lapai‎ Local Government Area.

He however said that the council still required many teachers to meet the requirement of teaching staff in primary and secondary schools.

“In this local government, we have acute shortage of teachers; this is because many of them are on maternity leave, some on study leave, some now retired while others are deceased.

“As a result of that, we have dearth of teachers, not only in the primary schools, but also in the secondary schools,’’ he said.

Mohammed, who stressed the need to replace retired and deceased teachers, noted that the embargo placed on recruitment due to the economic recession, was an impediment.

‎He commended the Federal Government on its N-Power programme and appealed for more teachers to be posted to the area.