Benue State government through Teaching Service Board TSB, is making arrangements to employ not less than five thousand professional teachers across all the primary/secondary schools in the state soon. Related News
The excutive chairman of the Teaching Service Board, Wilfred Uji disclosed this during an exclusive Media interaction with Business Day in his office at the Board headquarters in makurdi State capital.
Uji explained that he is not an armchair secretary but one who go out round to visit, inspect and interact with principals of all government owned secondary schools across the state. In so doing, he got to know that the students are being totored by unprofessional teachers as well as lack of facilities and work force.
He said that it was based on the backdrop that the state government has embarked on the arrangements to employ over five thousand teachers.He said ” it was due to unprofessionalism found in teachers also that the board has received a widow opportunities from Benue State University to train and retaining of staff to equip them for better performance during the long vacation,also to partner champs international in promoting academic performance of Benue Child to meet global standard as well as Google,to train staff on ICT facilities,Google Multinational free training”.
The Historian acknowledged the determination of Governor Samuel Ortom administration to give facelift to dilapidated government schools in his Second tenure in office to make them conducive for students and teachers.” The Governor unscheduled visit to Govt.Girls Model Sec,Sch.and Special School for Exceptional Children, all in Gwer-East on the 22nd,Jun.2019, gave a matching order for immediate constructions of a perimeter fence round the School to guarantee security in the institution” He added.
The secretary appreciated the initiative and efforts of the Tiv Language Studies and Development Association of Nigeria in collaboration with the Benue State Ministry of Education towards the reintroduction for the teaching of Tiv Language in the Primary and Post Primary School in the State.
According to him, the History, arts and Culture of a people is better taught, learnt and understood in their local dialect. Nation like China, India, Latin etc excelled in science and technology through their language. The image maker of the board acknowledged that without language, these heritage will decay and finally go into extinction, this what the Tiv nation is currently experiencing, he stressed.
Responding on the horror tanker disaster at Ahumbe in Gwer East LG which claimed over forty lives, “In all of my life, I have never seen such a horrible sight scene and I do pray that should be the last in the list of horror sights my eyes will behold”.
The horror reminded of the Jewish Hollocaust in Nazi Gas Chambers in World War II. The smell of burnt human flesh mixed with rotten human flesh filled the stench of the air as deep wailing and anguish rented the atomosphere.
For what crime did these people, the victims, paid with their dear lives? Is it poverty or the institutionalized voilence or death that has become characteristic of Nigeria.
I remember the novel by Charles Dickson titled “A Tale of Two Cities”. The French Revolution began with a Prelude on the Streets of Paris. There was such a deplorable and unbelievable poverty in France that a barrel of wine that broke on the street attracted a scramble of poor people who dipped their clothes in the muddy wine and squeezed it in their mouths. Somewhere in the desperation, somebody dipped his finger in the mud and wrote the inscription “Blood” on the wall. The message was an apocalypse to the French ruling monarchs that, one day, blood not wine, will flow through the streets of Paris.
The history lecturer lamented on the state of bad roads in Nigeria which is over sighted by the nations ruling elites. The nations ruling elites, both economic and political, may get away from institutionalized deaths caused by the deliberate neglect of our roads and transport infrastructure. He stated.
He emphasized that Everyday, hundreds of Nigerians suffer deaths on our roads supposed to have been contracted out for rehabilitation, but rather Official or authority stealing at the detriment of the welfare and well being of the people.
The excutive secretary called on the FG to improve the state of railways in the country so that fuel tankers will move on instead of roads.The state of bad roads should also be looked into and petrol Depot should be supplied with petrol to avoid transportating petrol from one place to another which results to inferno.
