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Prof. Musa Garba-Maitafsir, the Director, National Teachers’ Institute (NTI) Kaduna, said it has trained more than 19,000 primary school teachers in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno on e-facilitation.
Garba-Maitafsir disclosed this in Kaduna on Tuesday at the opening of the 1st NTI Annual National Conference 2023.
NAN also reports that the conference has as its theme: ‘ Re-directing the focus of education stakeholders toward modern processes of producing competent, dedicated and professional teachers in Nigeria’.
He said, ‘’The training is to make the teachers be in tune with the extant global digital trends, as such enhance the efficiency of the teachers.
‘’It is no longer tenable to spend billions of naira on producing books and other educational materials while the world has gone almost paperless.’’.
Garba-Maitfasir also stressed the need for Nigerian teachers to urgently overcome the phobia of computers and embrace digitization.
‘’This fear is uncalled for as nobody will be eased out even with the use of computers. We will sustain and expand our efforts in this direction, ‘’ the director added.
According to the NTI boss, the Institute was not more than a Post office dispatching question papers when he assumed duty over two years ago.
‘’The Institute was not more than a mere Post Office when I was appointed to head but I have transformed it into a leading teacher training Institutes in the world in the last two years.
‘’It is an academic Institute of repute boasting of over 100 Phd holders. All the stakeholders should do the right thing to get the desired change.
‘’ If all of us do so, there will be a change in the next decade or more. If I leave this place without bringing the desired change, I will be doing an injustice to myself,’’ Garba-Maitafsir said.
He also said that there must be more funds for the education sector, saying, ‘’ this is necessary as there are funds for other sectors.
‘’We have to change what is wrong with the education system. This is for the betterment of tomorrow that may not come immediately, but in the next ten years or more.
‘’But at last positive changes will be recorded to impact on professional teacher training in the coutry,’’ Garba-Maitafsir added.
