Ezekwesili says teachers’ housing will receive her priority attention as President
The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has assured teachers that her administration would accord priority attention to the issue of providing befitting accommodation when she emerges President of Nigeria.
In a press statement by the spokesperson of the Obiageli Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr. Ozioma Ubabukoh, Ezekwesili was quoted as wondering why it has been difficult for teachers to enjoy comfortable accommodation, regretting that poverty had also crippled the standard of education in Nigeria.
The statement read, “No teacher in full-time employment should be unable to live in comfortable accommodation, within reasonable distance of his or her place of work. This initiative serves as a financial inducement towards teachers becoming house owners.
“Housing for teachers tackles poverty, which currently plagues workers in this field and discourages most from aspiring to be teachers.”
The ACPN presidential candidate also highlighted the need to reduce the number of out-of-schoolchildren, stating that her administration would reduce it by 20 per cent annually.
She said, “We will cut out-of-school children number down to 5.4 million by 2023, build teacher efficacy and teacher expertise. Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili, in her ten-month tenure as minister of education ensured a reduction of (500,000) out-of-schoolchildren.
Using the Universal Basic Education Commission’s incentivising funds to states once again as our handle, our ACPN administration will seek to attain gender parity in education concurrently with our goal of reducing the number of OOSC.
“This approach will embed the diversity of girl-child education initiatives within our obligation to Sustainable Development Goals4 on ensuring universal access to qualitative education to all citizens.”
On education for special pupils attending public schools, the statement added, “The knowledge that between 15-20 per cent of children who attend public schools have one type of learning disability or another, which the poor segment of our country are seldom able to handle alone, will compel our administration to reopen the Policy on Special Needs Education, which was first comprehensively formalised during the tenure of Obiageli Ezekwesili as minister of education.”
In a press statement by the spokesperson of the Obiageli Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr. Ozioma Ubabukoh, Ezekwesili was quoted as wondering why it has been difficult for teachers to enjoy comfortable accommodation, regretting that poverty had also crippled the standard of education in Nigeria.
The statement read, “No teacher in full-time employment should be unable to live in comfortable accommodation, within reasonable distance of his or her place of work. This initiative serves as a financial inducement towards teachers becoming house owners.
“Housing for teachers tackles poverty, which currently plagues workers in this field and discourages most from aspiring to be teachers.”
The ACPN presidential candidate also highlighted the need to reduce the number of out-of-schoolchildren, stating that her administration would reduce it by 20 per cent annually.
She said, “We will cut out-of-school children number down to 5.4 million by 2023, build teacher efficacy and teacher expertise. Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili, in her ten-month tenure as minister of education ensured a reduction of (500,000) out-of-schoolchildren.
Using the Universal Basic Education Commission’s incentivising funds to states once again as our handle, our ACPN administration will seek to attain gender parity in education concurrently with our goal of reducing the number of OOSC.
“This approach will embed the diversity of girl-child education initiatives within our obligation to Sustainable Development Goals4 on ensuring universal access to qualitative education to all citizens.”
On education for special pupils attending public schools, the statement added, “The knowledge that between 15-20 per cent of children who attend public schools have one type of learning disability or another, which the poor segment of our country are seldom able to handle alone, will compel our administration to reopen the Policy on Special Needs Education, which was first comprehensively formalised during the tenure of Obiageli Ezekwesili as minister of education.”
