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The Nigerian state of Kaduna has sacked over 4,500 teachers who it has said are unable to write simple and acceptable sentences.

The teachers who were described by state officials as ‘incompetent’ were recently recruited for primary schools in the northern state.

An aide to the Kaduna state education commissioner, Lawal Danjuma told the BBC that  “There is no place for teachers who don’t know how to write simple acceptance letters in our primary schools, sacking them is best for children’s education.”

In 2017 the governor of the Kaduna state released samples of the exam questions thousands of basic school teachers failed after those teachers were sacked.

The teachers failed the said exams they set for their own pupils. The primary school teachers could not pass exams meant for their six-year old pupils.

21,780 teachers, that’s almost two-thirds of the total number of teachers who sat the exams could not score 75% or higher.

The latest recruitment was to replace the thousands of teachers sacked at the time.

Nigeria is struggling to deal with the poor pupil-teacher ratios across various states.

 

Source: Africafeeds.com

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