Governor Of Ekiti State, Gifts Best Teachers Of The Year Ten Million Naira Cheques Each At The Teacher’s Day Celebration

Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi celebrates teachers on teacher’s day celebration yesterday and he distributed 10 million cheques and 500k cheques to different teachers, though he did not mention the amount gifted, but it’s clearly seen on the photos he shared on Instagram.

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Our teachers have been at the heart of our education recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was my pleasure to celebrate their contributions and values on the occasion of the World Teachers’ Day.

We are very proud of your outstanding performance that earned us the National Best Teacher of the year in 2020 and the 1st Runner-Up in 2021.

We also had national awards for the best public primary school and the best approved private secondary school in 2021. Ekiti was one of the award-winning States in the 2021/2022 national Mathematics Day and SDG for Girls Child.

As a result of the quality of your teaching and the friendly learning environment provided in our schools, enrolment increased from 191,117 in 2018 to 261,292 in 2022. This increase in enrolment automatically resulted in the need to establish additional ten secondary schools in 2021.

The number of public primary and secondary schools in Ekiti increased from 901 to 906 and 196 to 203 respectively between 2018 and 2022.

At the inception of our second tenure in 2018, the free and compulsory education programme was re-established. Levies on primary school pupils and secondary school students were abolished.

This was done to ensure that no child drops out of school.

As a government, we observed that many school buildings were dilapidated. That was what informed our decision to pay about #8 billion counterpart fund to match UBEC’s contribution that enabled us to execute 886 projects which were for 2016 to 2020.

The projects included the construction of new blocks of classrooms, perimeter fencing, modern toilets, other WASH facilities, renovation of old blocks of classrooms, and provision of school furniture.

Moreover, 1,558 teachers were employed by SUBEB, TESCOM, and BTVE within the past four years. The Provision of free, compulsory, and qualitative education to Ekiti pupils and students has been at a great cost to us as a Government. So far, we have disbursed #655m as running grants to public schools in Ekiti State.

I am glad that all the efforts are yielding the desired results.

Source: Kayode Fayemi | Instagram

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