Ahead of the World Teachers day, teachers in Ogun State have raised the alarm over the large population of students in public schools across the state, saying the development was threatening the infrastructure in the schools.
Comrade Dare Ilekoya, state chairman of Nigerian Union of Teachers stated this in Abeokuta during a press conference.
Ilekoya said the free education programme has encouraged many parents who could not finance their children’s education to dump their children in the public schools and this development was capable of rubbishing the quality of the education in the state.
He cautioned governor over the construction of model schools , describing the idea as misplaced priority.
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In a related development, as Ekiti gets set for World Teachers’ Day celebration, scheduled to hold today, the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, ASUSS, Ekiti chapter, has accused the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, of being responsible for the sour relationship between it and Governor Ayodele Fayose.
The body said NUT tricked the Governor to hate the union and have the erroneous impression that it was a political and illegal body.
In a statement signed by its State Chairman, Comrade Sola Adigun yesterday, ASUSS expressed concern over how Fayose had sidelined it, preferring instead to deal exclusively with NUT.
NUT Chairman had during a press conference to herald the World Teachers’ Day described ASUSS as an illegal body and accused ex-governor Kayode Fayemi of breaching the law to have granted it recognition.
