The ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has approved the release of appointment letters to 1000 Ogun Teaching Experience Acquisition Channel (OgunTEACh) beneficiaries, twelve years after teachers were last employed in the state.
This is in fulfilment of the promise made by Governor Abiodun during the World Teachers’ Day celebration in October to absorb the OgunTEACh Interns on permanent appointments.
Speaking during the presentation of letters to the newly recruited teachers, Governor Abiodun noted that successful applicants were chosen based on their resilience, diligence, commitment, and doggedness during the period of their internship.
Represented by the Commisioner for Education, Science and Technology, Professor Abayomi Arigbabu explained that the giant step was part of the present administration’s effort to improve the standards of education in the state better than before stressing that the employment was to ensure that adequate and enough teachers were injected into the system, while reducing overloading on already existing teachers.
Congratulating the newly employed teachers, Mr governor charged them to continue to maintain integrity, diligence, and commitment by putting in their best to take teaching and learning to higher pedestal.
The Chairman Ogun State Teaching Service Commission, Evangelist Olalekan Ifede in a remark, informed that 600 out of the newly recruited teachers have been posted to public Junior and Senior Secondary Schools across the state stating that the new personnel would go a long way in improving the standard of education in the State.
Also speaking, the Chairman, Ogun State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Femi Majekodunmi and the Executive Secretary, Ogun State Technical Education Board, Mr. Olubori Akinleye in a separate remarks stated that the recruitment of the new teachers was apt, coming at a time the government was planning to reposition technical education in the State.
