The Kwara State government has approved the employment of 4,701 teachers in the State.
This is contained in a statement issued by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Yakub Aliagan.
Applicants, the ministry said, must have a Nigeria Certificate in Education, (NCE), with at least five O’ Level Credit passes in Mathematics, English, and three other relevant subjects in not more than two sittings.
The ministry said that out of the number, the government advertised placements for 2,000 teachers in some specific subjects in the Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) based on needs-assessment conducted in the Commission.
It added that the job placements are open to all qualified persons and that only the best candidates would emerge from the process designed to throw up teachers with the right qualifications and competence to build generations of Kwara indigenes to compete anywhere in the world.
The vacancies came a few days after the government nullified a controversial enrolment process that affected 2,414 persons in the State Universal Basic Education Board, (SUBEB).
