Over 60,000 teachers write TRCN qualifying exam to meet deadline – Registrar


The Registrar Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TCRN) Professor Segun Ajiboye, said 69,000 people sat for the October diet of the council’s  Professional Qualification Examination for Teachers.


Prof Ajiboye dropped the hint in Ibadan while speaking on the TRCN Professional Examination conducted in 47 centres across the country.


According to the TRCN Registrar,  a total of 69,123 persons registered for the October diet of the qualifying examination which was conducted in 46 out of the 47 centers nationwide.


He stressed that while the exam was successfully held and concluded at the LAUTECH center in Oyo state, the exam failed to hold in University of Ibadan DLC center due to alleged uncontrollable behaviour of the candidates. 


Prof Ajiboye added that the examination coordinators deployed to the state reported that all necessary arrangements were made for the candidates in two centres in Oyo State- UI DLC and LAUTECH Ogbomoso but that the behaviour of the candidates at the Ibadan centre forced the coordinators to suspend it till further notice.


“Reports from across the country indicate the exam went without hitches. In the  Abuja Centre where the Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Education Arc Sunny Echono monitored the exam over 4000 candidates wrote the exam between yesterday Friday October 11 and today October 12th successfully.”

The Registrar then promised  to look into the happenings at the center with a view to remedying such in the future while candidates are assured of alternative date for tbe exam to be announced.

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