Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has approved the recruitment of 6,200 teachers into public primary and secondary schools to address the acute manpower shortage across the education sector.
Speaking at a bi-monthly press briefing in Lafia, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Affairs, Mr Peter Ahemba, said the new teacher recruitment exercise will cover all 13 local government areas and 18 development areas.
According to Ahemba, the state government will recruit 4,700 teachers for primary schools and 1,500 for secondary schools. The move aims to replace staff lost through retirement, death, and transfers, and to meet the growing student population.
Ahemba revealed that the recruitment of primary school teachers, which was initiated by the previous leadership of the Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), had stalled before completion. Governor Sule has now directed the new SUBEB Chairman, Kassim Mohammed-Kassim, to finalise the process and publish the list of successful candidates.
“The list of qualified candidates from all 13 LGAs has been submitted to the Ministry of Education for final review. Deployment to schools will begin shortly,” he said.
On secondary education, Ahemba disclosed that 1,500 new teaching positions have been approved to replace over 3,000 teachers who were unlawfully employed under the former management of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). That management team has since been dismissed and is currently under investigation by the Nasarawa State House of Assembly.
He added that the new TSC has begun a fresh recruitment process, with 719 out of 4,243 applicants passing the computer-based test.
Beyond recruitment, Ahemba noted that contracts have been awarded for large-scale construction and renovation of primary and junior secondary schools. He reaffirmed the administration’s commitment to improving education standards and creating a more conducive learning environment across the state.
