Nigeria: Why El-Rufai Wants Over 21,000 Teachers Sacked - NULGE

19 November 2017

Abeokuta — The president of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Comrade Ibrahim Khaleed, yesterday, faulted the sincerity of the competency test conducted by the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, for primary school teachers.

He said the intention of the governor was not to test the teachers' competency but to downsize the workforce. Khaleed said the union had discovered discrepancies in the test, alleging that the dead and retired were among people El-Rufai claimed had passed the test.

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