Warri South: LG staff deployed to us, can only address five percent of teachers needed – Executive Secretary, LEA

The Executive Secretary, Local Education Authority for Warri South Local Government Area, Hon. Wilson Eyimofe Omor, says 30 staff under the employ of Delta State Local Government Service Commission, working in Warri South Local Government Council, that had just been deployed to the Local Education Authority, Warri South Local Government Area, for onward posting to public primary schools in Warri South, can only address five percent of the estimated 500 teaching staff urgently needed.

Fresh Angle International can authoritatively report that most of the NCE and Bachelor of Education holders, working in the 25 local government councils in Delta State, were recently posted to public primary schools, through the Local Education Authority in the 25 local government areas, as part of perceived measures to address the acute shortage of teaching and non-teaching staff in public primary schools across Delta State.

Checks by Your Flagship Warri-Based Online Medium, revealed that thousands of teaching and non-teaching staff in public primary schools in the oil and gas-rich Delta State, have retired within the last ten years, with N-Power recruits engaged in recent times, to fill a few gaps.   

In an exclusive telephone interview with This Newspaper today, Wednesday November 3, the Executive Secretary, Local Education Authority for Warri South Local Government Area, Hon. Wilson Eyimofe Omor, stressed the need for more teachers to be recruited to meet the acute shortage in public primary schools, especially in Warri South Local Government Area.

According to Hon. Omor, at the end of next month (December 2021) over 90 teachers in public primary schools across Warri South Local Government Area, will be retiring, adding: “We urgently need 400 to 500 teaching staff. Deployment of 30 teachers, with about six of them having health concerns and a few saying they are exco members of NULGE (Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees) without practical teaching experience, pose a fresh challenge for us”.

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