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By Imrana Abdullahi
Dr Yusuf Sununu, Minister of State for Education says the Federal Government is focused on restoring quality of education, with particular interest in teacher training and continuous development of teachers in Nigeria.
Dr Sununu disclosed this on Tuesday in Kaduna while declaring open, the 1st Annual National Conference of the National Teachers’ Institute (NTI).
The conference was held at the NTI Headquarters, Kaduna with the theme; “Re-directing the Focus of Education Stakeholders Towards Modern Process of Producing Competent, Dedicated and Professional Teachers in Nigeria”.
The minister, represented by Mr Sani Adamu, his Personal Assistant said each stakeholder in the educational sector must play a unique role to help increase support for educational activities.
“This underscores the fact that team efforts help to achieve much and increase the chances of success in reaching set goals.
“There are several entities who serve as stakeholders in education including; government at all levels, teachers, parents, students, community and others,” Sununu added.
The minister, however, commended NTI for organising the conference which according to him, underscored its steadfastness to the realisation of strategic goals of producing competent, dedicated and professional teachers in Nigeria as captured in the recently developed Educational Sector Roadmap 2024-2027.
Earlier in a welcome address, Prof. Musa Garba-Maitafsir, Director and Chief Executive of NTI, said in collaboration with other stakeholders, it was determined to brace up with the challenge that bedeviled the educational sector.
He said the Institute had in the last two years changed its style of operation to serve not just as an administrative but academic outfit.
“Our focus now is on e-facilitation as we have now embarked on the training of our staff to be e-facilitators.
“We have already implemented the e-facilitation programme in; Borno, Adamawa and Yobe where we have trained over 18,000 primary school teachers,” he added.
Garba-Maitafsir, who described the stakeholders at the conference as the backbone of education in Nigeria, urged them to convince their governors on what should be done right, adding, “when we do this, we are going to have change in 10 years to come.
“We are determined to change the narrative of what is obtained today in the educational sector for the betterment of tomorrow,” he said.
