For their exceptional overall performance in the education sector, no fewer than three personal college instructors in Lagos and a school, Mrs. Elusaki Agnes Iyabo, Ikuseyidunmi Pius Babbo, and Adeniyi Oluwasegun, and Government Junior College, Epe have received this 12 months’ edition of the 2019 President’s Teachers and Schools Excellence Award (PTA). The award, which occurred on Eagle Square, Abuja, was instituted through the Federal Government to praise awesome instructors and colleges for their exemplary performance in the training region.
According to the kingdom Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, who disclosed this while addressing instructors throughout the 2019 World Teachers’ Day birthday celebration at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Sports’ Complex, the feat was achieved because of the precedence attention the national authorities are paying to the improvement of the arena via the provision of facilities.
“We have professionals and qualified teachers to gain extra heights in delivering satisfactory education to our future leaders,” she referred to, commending the lecturers and faculty for their determination and dedication to teaching jobs, in addition to the increase of the world.
The Commissioner introduced: “No society can achieve significant development in handing over best schooling without setting top-class value on its teachers. I must confess that only Almighty God can reward your efforts and pray that your labor will no longer be useless. Considering your roles, contributions, and importance, our teachers have to receive and enjoy the rewards for their labor first right here in the world and then in Heaven.”
The Commissioner, however, confident instructors inside the nation that teaching career could be made more appealing beneath the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, which has promised to boom budgetary allocation to training, set up era pushed template to force the arena, rent greater teachers, upscale ordinary education of teachers, as well as create conducive coaching and getting to know surroundings.
She also lauded the leadership of the state wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) for ensuring the right concord, harmony, and welfare of teachers in the kingdom.
While reaffirming that the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) sets aside October five every year as World Teachers’ Day to rejoice in the invaluable contributions and roles of teachers in offering first-rate training to youngsters, Mrs. Adefisayo defined the subject matter of this year’s celebration as “Young Teachers, the Future of the Profession” as suitable and apt.
It addressed the need to look at the teaching career from an attitude of the previous day, nowadays, and the day after today. This is to reposition the career for the most reliable overall performance in this present age, and international attention is being shifted from a resource-based financial system to a know-how-primarily based economic system,” the Commissioner delivered.
Dignitaries on occasion include the Permanent Secretaries/Tutor Generals of the Six Education Districts of the state; the Chairman of Lagos State Civil Service Commission, Mrs. Taiwo Oyemade; Mrs. Bunmi Oteju, who represented the SUBEB Chairman, Mr. Wahab Alawiye King; Chairman Teaching Service Commission, Mrs. Olabisi Ariyo; Director, Education Quality Assurance, Mrs. Bisola Seriki Ayeni; and the NUT Chairman, Otunba Adedoyin Adesina, among other stakeholders.
