NTI To Train 18,367 Unqualified Teachers In Borno, Yobe, Adamawa States

The newly appointed Director-General and Chief Executive of the National Teachers’ Institute (NTI), Kaduna, Prof. Musa Garba Maitafsir has vowed to train quality and committed teachers in the country.

He made this assertion during his familiarization visit to Maiduguri, Borno State where he also solicited the support of the Chairman of NTI Governing Council, Senator Kaka Mallam Yale.

Senator Yale, who received the NTI Chief Executive congratulated him for his appointment and assured him of the council’s support to implement meaningful development projects and policies in the Institute.

In the same vein, the Director-General and Chief Executive, Prof Maitafsir also assured the UNICEF Education Specialist in Borno State, Dr Yusuf Ismail that the Institute is ready and will ensure quality in the training of 18,367 unqualified teachers of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States (BAY states), who were contracted by the UNICEF.

Prof Maitafsir, who expressed NTI willingness and commitment to training the teachers was at UNICEF’s office as part of a familiarization visit to the state.

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Responding, the UNICEF Education Specialist, Dr Yusuf Ismail having commended the Director-General and Chief Executive for the visit, also congratulated him for his appointment and advised him to promote the image of the Institute.

In a related development, Prof. Maitafsir was at the office of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Prof. Aliyu Shugaba, where he commended the Vice-Chancellor for the affiliation status given to the institute and other opportunities offered to NTI by the university.

He urged the university to give the Institute more opportunity throughout the period of his stewardship at the Institute.

Prof. Maitafsir also inspected the NTI Borno State Office, which is under construction in Maiduguri, where he urged the contractor, handling the work to speed up work, so as to enable staff of the Institute in the state to move in immediately and continue their work.

The Director-General and Chief Executive, who was accompanied by the NTI Ag. Registrar and Secretary to Council, Mal. Ibrahim Hamidu and Special Assistant to the Director-General and Chief Executive, Dr Armiya’u Malami Yabo, was taken round the NTI Borno State Office by the Borno State Coordinator, Mal. Modu Kingimi.