Nigeria: 10,000 Jigawa Teachers Unqualified - Committee

About 10,000 out of the 12,000 primary school teachers in Jigawa State are unqualified, chairman of the 11-man committee set up by the government to source for quality teachers, Professor Kabiru Isyaku has said.

Presenting the report to the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Aminu Abdullahi Taura, Professor Isyaku who was represented by a member of the committee, Mr. Dennis Okoro said the committee also discovered that the number of teachers produced by the Jigawa State College of Education, Gumel was too insignificant to solve the problem.

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