Erasmus Alaneme,Abuja — Federal Government has stated that all hope is not lost for Nigerians education sector, disclosing that plans are on the way to send teachers to help out in the South Africa education system.

Education Minister, Dr. Sam Egwu who made this known said that contrary to reports that Nigeria is worse off in term of teaching force, the South African educational system was in dire need of teaching personnel particularly at the basic education level.

As a result the Minister said there is plan to assist the South African Government in salvaging its educational system by offering to recruit some teaching staff from Nigeria that would be interested in going to the country to teach in due course.

Egwu spoke over the weekend while receiving the World Bank's African Regional Director for Education, Christopher Ihoms, who visited him in Abuja to intimate him on the level of performance of the STEP-B project in Nigeria. At the meeting, Egwu said: "Nigeria has been able to develop a new roadmap in education which principally seeks to enable the country reposition its educations structure.

"However, it was in that same roadmap that government insisted that issues of award of court or procurement should he completely decentralized to the end users, because the end user knows where the shoe pinches and should be able to be held accountable for observed lapses.

"I must disclosed that a lot of African countries depend on us to lead in the education sector, for instance the curriculum we developed, especially in technical and vocation courses attracted many countries in the West African region.

"Some of them have actually demanded for copies of our education roadmap and currently. South Africa has also applied through writing asking us that they need teachers from Nigeria, particularly in the areas of science and mathematics, for which advertisements will soon be placed in national dailies to recruit Nigerians who are qualified and interested in going to teach in South Africa to apply."

Meanwhile, the world Bank's African Regional Director for Education, Uhomas said in the course of the assessment of the bank's educational programs in the country, which spans through States education project, the STEP-B and the Lagos Eko projects a sense of commitment was generally observed by those mandated to drive the schemes.

According to Thomas: "we saw progrmems where teachers tried to use their creativity in bringing p young students in early Childhood Adult education progrmmes, trying to prepare their basic numeric and.