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Kaduna: Out of 43,000 that sat for aptitude test, 27,000 shortlisted for interview

Editor — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 05:21:56 +0000

Members of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Kaduna State chapter protesting over the sack of their colleagues, in front of the State House of Assembly in Kaduna on Wednesday (8/11/17). The protest follows Kaduna State Government’s plan to sack about 21,780 teachers who failed competence test. 05957/8/11/2017/Suleiman Shuaibu/B. Jones/NAN

Jan 20, 2018: The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has shortlisted 27,639 applicants for oral interview in its ongoing recruitment of 25,000 teachers for the state’s public primary schools.

The figure represents the number of successful applicants out of the more than 43,000 who sat for the aptitude test conducted on Dec. 20, 2017.

The list, pasted at the board’s headquarters in Kaduna on Saturday evening, indicated that oral interview would start on Jan. 24, at the Local Government Education Authority (LEA) offices in the 23 local government areas of the state.

Signed by the board’s Executive Chairman, Nasiru Umar, the list added that successful candidates would attend the interview in their respective local governments, while applicants from other states would be interviewed at centres nearest to them.

Applicants are advised to check their names at the notice board of the Education Secretaries in the 23 local governments, as well as SUBEB headquarters.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the recruitment is being conducted to replace the 21,780 primary school teachers sacked for allegedly failing competency test organised by the state
government in June 2017.

The sack of the teachers over poor performance generated protest and strike by Nigeria Union of Teachers on Jan. 8.

The strike was, however, called off after 10 days when the state government announced a second chance window for the sacked teachers to reapply under SUBEB’s continues recruitment exercise. (NAN)

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Benue, Kaduna, Rivers Massacre: APC must search their conscience over tragedies

Editor — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 23:59:37 +0000

Jan 4, 2018: The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the recent massacre in Benue, Rivers, Kaduna and other states as wicked and height of insensitivity on the part of the All Progressive Congress Presidency, APC, presidency to Nigerians

The opposition party asked the ruling APC to search their conscience over the tragedies.

The National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, in a statement on Thursday said Buhari-led APC Federal Government failed to take measures but reacted to the incidents only after the PDP and well-meaning Nigerians took them to task.

There were attacks on communities in Guma and Logo local government areas of Benue state between Monday and Tuesday which led to the death of at least 20 persons and many others injured.

Also gunmen in Rivers State opened fire on people returning from the church in the early hours of New Year Day.

The statement reads “The height of insensitivity of the APC Presidency became glaring in its reaction, wherein a media aide issued some apathetic and indifferent lines without any precise commitment towards bringing the perpetrators to book and assurances of adequate security to forestall a reoccurrence,” the PDP said in the statement.

“What a way to start the new year? The sheer insensitivity of the APC Government has continued to cause our nation a lot of pain and sorrow.

“Is it not only a careless and inept leadership like the APC government that will ignore the danger signs in any part of the country and leave its citizens defenseless, just to be massacred by marauders?

“If the APC Federal Government had effectively acted upon the danger signs and had provided adequate security in flash points across the country, particularly in Benue state, north central and Southern Kaduna area, this massacre of Nigerians, who were already impoverished by the APC’s misrule, could have been prevented.

“Is it not a tragic trajectory of governance that while the APC Presidency was busy basking on its orchestrated New Year self-praise and empty promises, bandits were having a field day mowing down citizens in cold blood?

“Is it not also an irony that when the government was prompted to react to the spate of killings, all its officials could do was to respond in a most indifferent, nearly unconcerned and almost without compassion manner?

“Indeed, PDP aligns with Nigerians that the APC and the Presidency should have a serious soul searching on their clear indifference towards the persistent killings and maiming of citizens by bandits who constantly invade communities, slaughter the people and walk away with blood of our compatriots in their hands.

“We insist that for the nation to be reassured, the Federal Government must show commitment by ensuring that the perpetrators of these killings are immediately brought to book and made to face the full wrath of the law.

“Nigeria belongs to all of us; every citizen has a right to life and no man should take the life of another for any reason or under any guise whatsoever, the statement said.

“The PDP commiserated with the families of the victims, and directed its members to assist and continue to pray for them.”

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