Nigeria: Teachers' Purge Looms in Delta

28 December 2012

Asaba — TEACHERS in public primary and secondary schools in Delta State are apprehensive over an impending sack, which is expected to take place in January 2013, Vanguard's investigation has shown.

Although, the state Commissioner for Education (Basic and Secondary), Professor Patrick Muoboghare, had dismissed the move, some of the teachers who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of victimization, insisted that a mass purge was in the offing.

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