Nigeria: FG Pledges Priority to Teachers' Education As NTI Trains 13,302 Teachers in Bauchi

20 September 2011

Bauchi — THE Federal Government yesterday said it is ready to give priority to teachers' education with a view to improving the quality of education in the country, even as the National Teachers Institute, NTI, has trained 13,302 teachers in Bauchi State in the last four years.

Speaking at the closing of capacity building workshop for primary and junior secondary teachers at the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, the Minister of State for Education, Mr Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, represented by the Director of Policy, Planning,Management and Research in the Ministry, Mrs Karamot Lawal, said only quality education would enable the country actualise its development goals.

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