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President Muhammadu Buhari has thrown his weight of help behind Kaduna State governor, Nasir el- Rufai, on the program to sack teachers who failed the competency test performed by the state government.


About 21,780 out of 33,000 teachers had been said to have failed the key 4 test administered on them to test their competence.


Speaking at a presidential retreat on education for ministers at the presidential villa yesterday, Buhari described the circumstance as tragic.


Expressing shock over the development, Buhari lamented that a predicament whereby teachers cannot pass exams that they are supposed to prepare college kids to pass calls for critical concern.


Buhari mentioned, "To digress a small bit so that you know that I meant what I study, having been an orphan, I still really feel that whatever I did in life so far was constructed by boarding college. For nine years I was in boarding school- 3 in primary and six in secondary school.


"In these days, teachers treat their students or kids like their own children. If you did nicely they will tell you you did properly if you don’t do properly they never spared the rod. When I finished my secondary school, I didn’t function for a day. I refused to function for a day I left dwelling and refused to work in the local government, and then I joined the Army. And in the Army of that time we went via all we went via up, to the civil war.


"And then I listened to one of the Nigerians I respect. He said soon after his instruction here in Nigeria and the United States, he went to his alma mater, his primary school, to see what he could contribute. I will not mention his name but when he went, he couldn’t differentiate involving the students, the young children and the teachers".


Giving credence to the planned sack of teachers, the president said, "And what El-Rufai is trying to do now is exactly what that man told me about 10 years ago. It is a quite incredibly really serious predicament when teachers cannot pass the exams that they are supposed to teach the youngsters to pass. It is a very tragic circumstance we are in and our gathering collectively, to me, is a single of the most vital in this administration".


Buhari had earlier noted that the significance of the summit was obvious, as the country can not progress beyond the level and regular of our education.


He observed that these who obtain the most qualitative education, equipped with requisite skills and instruction, and are empowered with practical knowhow are these leading the rest.


He added: "We can not afford to continue lagging behind. Education is our launch pad to a more thriving, extra productive and more prosperous future. This administration is committed to revitalizing our education method and producing it much more responsive and globally competitive.


"One of the principal roles of education is to make and sustain individual and society’s development. It renews and improves the economic, social, political and cultural elements of any nation.


Buhari further stated that education upgrades the living common of citizens and enables individuals to grow to be far better and a lot more productive citizens, even as he noted that it is human rights that create a safe, healthy and prosperous society.


He continued: "It alterations the visions and perspectives of individuals, enhances vital decisions and improves democracy. Indeed, education is paramount and vital requirement for all-round improvement.


"Nigeria’s participation in all relevant international education fora, with each other with our investment in education and collaboration with development partners, is an indication of high level of commitment towards making certain that each and every capable Nigerian receives superior high-quality education.


"These efforts are justifiable only to the extent that schooling is helpful in promoting the realization of national objectives, attaining the Sustainable Development Targets (SDGs) and Education For All (EFA) by 2030".


He further noted that these targets are in harmony with the manifesto and the modify agenda of the All Progressive Congress (APC).


"It is also in agreement with my campaign promises for the duration of the 2015 elections exercising and in pursuit of the yearnings and aspirations of the generality of Nigerian citizens".


Buhari pointed out that the state of education in Nigeria calls for serious concern, noting that it is no longer secret that the high-quality of education in Nigeria requires higher consideration and improvement.


He stated, "That our nation is facing many challenges in education and all other sectors as a outcome of historical abuses, mindless impunity and corruption is not news to any individual.


"With an estimated 13.two million children out of school, higher illiteracy level, infrastructural deficit and decay, unqualified teachers, and inadequate instructional supplies, to mention some of the challenges, we can clearly see the effect of decades of neglect that the education sector has suffered".


President Buhari restated the determination of his administration to turnaround the sector for the far better.


His words: "We are currently generating appreciable progress in this respect. This summit ought to consequently, among other issues, sharpen our strategies for addressing the challenges of standard and secondary education, teacher coaching and qualified development, technical and vocational education.


…He Should Have Been Misinformed - NLC

In a swift reaction the the president’s stance on the planned sack of teachers by the Kaduna State government, the


Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) stated it will seriously seek audience with Buhari, who it stated may perhaps have been misinformed about the situation.


NLC stated it will mobilise massively to Kaduna in what it described as mother of all protest to demand that the Kaduna State governor rescind his selection to sack the over 22, 000 teachers.


Following reports that President Buhari has endorsed the sack, NLC deputy president, Peters Adeyemi, told journalists in Abuja that Labour believes strongly that the president was not effectively briefed and will seek audience with him.


He stated, "We in the Labour movement will seriously seek audience with Mr. President on this matter and express our case to him. We do not feel it was the proper selection to take since it is clearly unfair. I do not think it is appropriate simply because this government promised employment and not unemployment.


"This government stated it will generate jobs. They did not tell us that that they will kill jobs. For God sake, who employed those workers in the first instance? Why not deal with those who employed these you consider are not supposed to be on the employment? These individuals did not employ themselves in the 1st location. Government employed them and they have been operating with the government.


"How did we come across them unemployable more than evening? Labour has contested whether or not it is within the ideal of the Kaduna State government to set exams for teachers. The answer is no simply because we know clearly that you can set exams for individuals to fail. If you actually want to sack workers, you can design and style queries that will make them fail".


Earlier, NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, stated in a statement that the governor need to be ready to preserve a date with NLC in a mother of all rallies, "as we mobilise workers, pensioners, and our civil society allies across the nation to the state".


He accused the governor of directing the Sole Administrators in the 21 regional governments in the state to use the resources of the local governments to mobilise thugs to Kaduna metropolis to demonstrate in support of his "obnoxious policy on the mass sack of workers".


Nigeria Demands N1trn Investment In Education Annually - Minister

Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, mentioned yesterday that the ruling All Progressives Congress-led federal government requirements N1 trillion annually to fulfill its campaign promises on education.


Adamu stated this earlier at the presidential retreat on Education at the conference hall of the presidential villa, Abuja.


The minister, who advocated for declaration of state of emergency in education, maintained that all change need to commence with education.


He stated, "If we get education ideal, other places of our national life will be right and they will fall in line. I think that this retreat should finish with a declaration of a state of emergency in education so that we can face the challenges frontally and squarely.


"These challenges are not insurmountable. What is necessary is vastly improved funding accompanied by a powerful political will. The powerful political will necessary to do all this is present in this government. What this government ought to now do is to make the funds out there.


"Nobody has the moral and resource capacity to intervene promptly, substantially and sustainably in all places of education provisioning improved than the government.


"Unfortunately, from 1999 to date, the annual budgetary allocation to education has often been involving 4 per cent and 10 per cent’’.


Adamu additional noted that none of the E9 or D8 countries other than Nigeria allocates much less than 20 per cent of its annual price range to education.


He added that even amongst sub-Saharan Africa countries, Nigeria was trailing far behind smaller and significantly less endowed nations in terms of its investment in education.


ASUP Strike Cripples Academic Activities In Polytechnics

The ongoing strike embarked on by Academic Employees Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has crippled academic activities in Polytechnics across the country.


Worried by the harm the industrial action may lead to the academic calendar, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Prof. Stephen Ocheni, yesterday referred to as on ASUP to shelve the strike action, as difficulties in dispute are becoming addressed.


According to a statement by the deputy director of press at the ministry, Samuel Olowookere, the minister created the appeal in his office although receiving some leaders from Kogi in his workplace.


He said, "I want to appeal to the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic to shelve their planned industrial action because we can't realize industrial harmony in a state of incessant strikes. We all must join hands with each other to assistance President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in the implementation of the policy of Economic Recovery and Growth Strategy.