Osun govt recruits 10,470 teachers

Osun State government led by Governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola has recruited nothing less than 10,470 teachers for the schools in the state.

This translates to 54.8 per cent increase in the number of teachers inherited upon assumption of office in November 2010.

The state Deputy Governor and Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Grace Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, stated this in Ile-Ife at the commissioning of Baptist Central Elementary School, Ilare.

According to her, “this laudable step to transform public education in the state has brought the total number of teachers in the state’s public elementary schools to 12,715 while 7,848 teachers are presently working at both the middle and high schools which is an indication that change is inevitable and possible in life only if conceived by visionary leaders.”

The deputy governor said promotion, training and retraining of teachers into the state public schools are at the forefront of activities of the present administration in the state with a view to delivering effective teaching and learning to pupils and students in the state’s public schools.

She said “this giant stride has led to total transformation of public education in the state.”

Relaying how Governor Rauf Aregbesola has wholly justified confidence reposed in him by the people of the state by electing him into power in 2007, Mrs. Laoye-Tomori said the present administration has removed all financial burden from parents and introduced school feeding programme, O-Meal, to bring a level playing ground to education sector in the state.

Appealing to pupils and students to pay adequate attention to their education, the state deputy governor advised them that any child who desires education will be better by it but those who reject education will be disgraced in life, saying, “education is the key to moulding a total man socially, academically and intellectually for the future.”

Decribing state government’s unacceptability of unruly behaviour of pupils and students in public schools in the state, Mrs. Laoye-Tomori urged parents to join hands with teachers to jointly bring up their wards positively with a view to giving the state a better future, adding that works have reached completion stages at thirteen Elementary, twenty Middle and thirteen High Schools across the state.

Applauding the giant stride of the state government, the Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, said the edifice is an evidence of good work as executed by Governor Rauf Aregbesola and urged people of the state to continually pray for success of the administration.