Recruitment into P/S: Acute shortage of teachers to continue as SUBEB okays 80 for Warri South, Aniocha, Sapele get 140 each

The acute shortage of teaching and non-teaching staff across public primary schools in Delta State, looks set to continue, despite the widely publicized approval for recruitment, to replace those that have retired from service.

A circular that has been trending on social media since last night, purportedly from the State (Delta) Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, indicated that Warri South Local Government, got approval for the recruitment of only eighty teaching staff and 30 non-teaching staff, despite the large concentration of public primary schools, spread across the urban and riverine areas of the local government area, whereas Aniocha North and Sapele Local Government Areas, received the authority to recruit 140 teaching staff each.

According to the SUBEB circular dated August 8, 2023, titled; ‘Approval to recruit teaching and non-teaching staff in the Local Government Education Authority’, Ndokwa West, Burutu and Ughelli North Local Government Areas, have approval to employ 120, 100 and 100 teaching staff, respectively.

Findings by Fresh Angle International revealed that the last employment for public primary school teaching and non-teaching staff in Warri South Local Government Area, was done in the year 2006 and over 1,000 of teaching and non-teaching staff, have retired from the service since then.

Recall that the immediate past Executive Secretary, Local Education Authority for Warri South Local Government Area, Hon. Wilson Eyimofe Omor, had on Wednesday November 3, 2021, in an exclusive interview with This Newspaper, said 30 staff under the employ of Delta State Local Government Service Commission, working in Warri South Local Government Council, that were deployed to the Local Education Authority, Warri South Local Government Area, for onward posting to public primary schools in Warri South, could only address five percent of the estimated 500 teaching staff urgently needed as at then.

This Soaring International Tabloid, had reported that most of the NCE and Bachelor of Education holders, working in the 25 local government councils in Delta State, were 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 This 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, retired within the last twelve years, with N-Power recruits engaged in the past to fill a few gaps.  

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