After WAEC Mass Failure: Oyo Employs 5,300 New Teachers, Trains 31,000

The Oyo state government has employed 5,300 new teaching and non-teaching staff selected from the 33 local government areas of the state.

At a ceremony held in Ibadan on Tuesday, the letters were issued to the some of the new staff.

Speaking at the occasion, the state governor,  Abiola Ajimobi, said the appointments were part of his administration’s efforts to improve the standards of education in the state as well as provide jobs.

Let me congratulate our teachers.

“I can say it authoritatively that our teachers have never had it so good. They have continued to enjoy salary increase and their appointments have been gazetted,” Ajimobi said.

He revealed that the government has also sent over 31,000 teachers on various trainings, while many schools have been rehabilitated.

“So many schools had been rehabilitated; six models schools are being built,” the governor said.

Some people may see these developments as a quick reaction to criticism from opposition parties over the state’s declining education standards.

Two weeks ago, the Secretary of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Bamigboye Abiodun, said all blames concerning students poor academic performance should be directed at governor Abiola Ajimobi administration because it has left “schools in the state are bedevilled with serious infrastructural decay.”

The criticism came after the Oyo government blamed students for their dismal performance in the 2014 West African Examination Council (WAEC).