UBEB recruits 5,000 teachers for five liberated Borno LGs

The Universal Basic Education Board said it recruited about 5,000 teachers in Borno State to provide education to children in five local government areas liberated from Boko Haram insurgents.
Dalhatu Suleiman, the Deputy Director of Education, Crises Response Project of SUBEB, made this known during the launch of the 2016 state enrolment Drive Back to School in Maiduguri on Tuesday.
Suleiman said that teachers were deployed to provide basic education to 15,000 children across 301 learning centres in five local government areas of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, Jere, Konduga and Benishaik, Dikwa.
Suleiman said that the programme was aimed at ensuring that all children, especially the girl-child, have access to free and compulsory basic quality education.
Suleiman said: “This programme was supported by the USAID Basic Education Programme in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education Board, with a view to providing greater access and ensuring quality education among Nigerians.
“Within a period of nine months, children who don’t know how to read and write were able to do so. They can now read and write.
“We have visiting lecturers from UNIMAID, state polytechnic and college of education, who are translating our curriculum from English language to Kanuri to enable the pupils to learn faster.
“Our approach to education in Borno is therefore known as providing education in emergency.”
Also speaking, the Executive Secretary of SUBEB in Borno State, Alhaji Shettima Kullima, said the campaign would go a long way in revolutionising the education sector in the state.
Kullima said that Governor Shettima had accorded topmost priority to education in spite of the strangulating insurgency.
Kullima said: “Contracts for the construction of nine model schools have been awarded; works are in a tremendous progress.
“The school feeding programmes would also commence very soon.
“Directives have been issued for the release of teachers’ pending promotion to enable to them perform their duties diligently.”