Employ Qualified Teachers, Educationist Urges Govt

The president, Bachel Group of Schools Old Students’ Association, Lagos, Mr. Damilare Oyetunji, has called on the state and Federal governments to ensure that they employ qualified and competent teachers in primary and secondary schools.

Employing such competent teachers, he said, would help in revamping the falling standard of education in the country.

He said this in an interview with our correspondent after he emerged president of the association on Saturday.

Oyetunji, who noted that many teachers were no longer committed to the profession, added that it was the responsibility of a dedicated teacher to recognise the strengths and weaknesses of each pupil in his class.

He said, “It is unfortunate that many teachers in the primary and

UNN Teachers Sack Scribe Over Unauthorised Negotiation With Varsity

Secretary of the University of Nigeria branch of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr. Aaron Agbo, was Tuesday sacked by his colleagues after being accustomed of unauthorised negotiation with the university administration in the ongoing demonstrations for the recall of the pro-chancellor, Dr Emeka Enejere.

Agbo, who is in the Department of Psychology, had held the post for only a year before the sudden loss of it.
A panel headed by a senior academic, Professor Damian Opata, Head of Department of English, was also set up to determine further punishment to be meted out to the former ASUU scribe.

Members of the four unions in the university operating as Joint Action Committee, JAC, Monday resumed the demonstrations they suspended for Christmas and New Year break. However, Dr Agbo issued a notice instructing lecturers not to join the other four unions.

The chairman, Dr. Ifeanyi Abada, promptly countered the instruction in a different notice mobilising his colleagues.
Academic staff of all levels, therefore, joined the other three unions and marched round Nsukka campus on Monday but unknown to them, Dr Abada had gone to a meeting reportedly called by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Bartho Okolo, at Enugu campus in an attempt to negotiate with the staff.

The other unions, apart from ASUU, were National Association of Academic Technicians, NAAT; Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, Enugu Campus; and Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, Nsukka Campus.

Sources said workers at the Enugu Campus, however, resisted the