The embarrassing discovery was made at Asologun Primary School, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, Benin City when Mrs Augusta Odemwinge could not read a sworn affidavit she tendered as part of her credentials.
Governor Oshiomhole who paid an unscheduled visit to the State Staff Training Centre, venue of the exercise, was appalled that a teacher could not read, saying “if you can’t read, what do you teach the pupils, what do you write on the board?”
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Trouble started when Mrs. Odenwingie took her turn for the exercise. The governor asked her to read the affidavit she presented.
To the consternation of everybody present, the teacher began to stutter as she read the affidavit as if a kindergarten were learning to read.
Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers NUT, Comrade Ikosimi who described Mrs Odemwingie failure as an embarrassment, said the Union endorsed the state government move to sanitise the school system.
“We are committed to partnering with the government to reposition Education in the state. What this teacher has just displayed is a show of shame, it shows the decadence in the education sector.
“As the chairman of NUT, I have written to the governor that we are in total support of what he is doing. He should properly involve the NUT so that together we can fish out the culprits who are not viable as far as the system is concerned,” he said.
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Well done osho baba.
ReplyDeletewhat a big shame to the whole educational sector
ReplyDeleteShe must be STANDING IN 4 SOMEONE.
ReplyDeleteA GHOST TEACHER.
Find out how she was employed, there must be sumtin fishing.
ReplyDeleteIs unfortunate,may God help us.
ReplyDeleteBane of our public school.
ReplyDeleteThank you Governor Adams Oshiomhole. We need more of you in Nigeria. God bless you.
ReplyDeleteWho is to blame? Government or the school management or the PTA? Government is always to blame whereas others who know where the fault is are spared. God help Nigeria to move forward.
ReplyDeleteWe foreigners all know that it has always been like that in Nigeria, that is why people in the sub-region don't often see any Nigerian so-called "Doctor" of "Professor" as anybody, especially when the later is an Igbo...
ReplyDeleteIt is a very big shame to the woman.even a child can read it.
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