By Bashir Mohammed
Kano state government has said that it had recruited over 1, 000 teachers for its secondary schools this year.
Director- General of the state Secondary Schools Management Board (KSSSMB), Alhaji Habib El-Yakub, made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in Kano.
He said the recruitment of the new teachers was part of the measures taken by the state government to fill the vacuum created by some teachers as a result of retirement and those who left the profession in search of greener pastures.
He said the state government had also concluded arrangement for the recruitment of the second batch of 1, 900 teachers very soon.
He said: “All these efforts are geared towards ensuring that our secondary schools are equipped with qualified and adequate. This is necessary because of the state government’s free education policy it introduced last year.”
He noted that the introduction of free feeding and uniform in primary schools had attracted many parents who, hitherto, refused to send their wards to school, to enroll their children now.
He, however, stated that the state government had also recruited one computer teacher for each of the 973 secondary schools under the board as part of renewed effort to ensure that students were computer-literate.
El-Yakub further revealed that the board was currently in partnership with over 20 private firms which are specialists in ICT to ensure the full take off of ICT centres in all the secondary schools in the state.
“This is also aimed at making sure that all secondary school students in the state are computer literate in view of the modern trend.”
