The Delta State government has warned that henceforth, any teacher who rejects posting to any part of the state will lose his/her job.

It said that any Chief Inspector of Education or official of the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education found aiding rejection of posting or re-posting of teachers would also be sanctioned.

The state's Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, gave the warning at a meeting with State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) officials and Local Education Secretaries in Asaba, on Tuesday.

Muoboghare also gave the education secretaries two weeks to furnish him with the number of classrooms in primary schools in their respective local government areas.

He maintained that the data would help in determining the number of teachers to be posted to primary schools, saying that the new policy in the state indicates that only one teacher would be deployed in a class.

"You must go back to your stations and enforce this policy," he told the secretaries, directing that excess teachers currently in urban schools should be posted to rural areas that are in need of teachers.

He warned that any primary school teacher who cannot teach all subjects in a class would have his or her appointment reviewed.

"A teacher should be able to teach all subjects in a primary school class as it was in the good old days," he said.

The commissioner hinted that the merging of some secondary schools, which had just been concluded in the state, would also be carried out in primary schools.