Nigeria: Almost Half of Teachers in Nigerian Schools Not Qualified - Registration Council About 300,000 of the 700,000 teachers in Nigerian schools are not qualified to teach, the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, has stated. About 25,000 of the unqualified teachers are teaching in schools in Kano State, the registrar and chief executive officer of the council, Josiah Ajiboye, said on Wednesday. He was speaking at the World Teachers' Day Symposium in Abuja organised under the theme: "Teaching in Freedom: Empowering Nigerian Teachers for the 21st Century Challenges". He said, however, about 8,000 of the unqualified teachers in Kano have so far been professionalised through the efforts of the state government and ... Continue reading... http://allafrica.com/stories/201710050015.html
