Bauchi gov approves recruitment of 3,000 teachers

Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has approved the recruitment of 3,000 teachers to be deployed to Junior and Senior secondary schools across the state.

The Project Coordinator, Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment in the state, Ali Gar, stated this on Thursday during a sensitisation meeting on the Girls Scholarship Programme with stakeholders from the Bauchi Local Government.

According to Gar, the move was part of the conditions for the implementation of the AGILE project in the state.

He explained that 2,000 teachers out of the figure would be deployed to Junior secondary schools while the remaining 1,000 would go to Senior secondary schools.

He said the move is to breach the pupils and students-teacher ratio gap across the benefitting schools under the project.

Gar emphasised “The teachers would be under the payroll of the state government and not…