Nasarawa To Flush Out Fake Teachers

The Nasarawa State Commissioner for Education, Mr. Hussaini Abubakar, has said that the government will check the increasing cases of fakes in the teaching profession.

At a sensitisation workshop organised by the Teachers’ Registration Council (TRC) in Lafia on Tuesday, Abubakar said the infiltration of non-professional teachers into the profession in the state would not be allowed to continue.

The commissioner, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Hajia Zainab Abdulmumuni, said:  “Teaching is just like any other profession in the country, so anyone who loves teaching as a career must have the necessary qualification.”

He commended TRC for living up to its mandate and expressed the hope that the registration of professional teachers by the council would help in repositioning the profession like others.

Expressing appreciation to the Council for choosing Nasarawa State as the pilot state for implementation of the registration, the commissioner said the ministry would support the exercise.

He appealed to the head of schools and other regulatory body in the state to assist in fishing-out fakes in the teaching profession by being sincere and avoid sentiment in the collection of data of their members of staff.

Earlier, the Registrar of TRC, Prof. Adisan Mark, said the registration was aimed at regulating and sanitising the teaching profession for effectiveness.

According to him, Teachers Information System is aimed at filling the exiting gap in the collection of teacher’s data.