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About 7,518 teaching and non-teaching staff have been penciled down for promotion after being approved by the governor of Ogun state, Prince Dapo Abiodun.
This was made known by the Chairman of the Teaching Service Commission, Olalekan Ifede, who disclosed this during a monitoring exercise of schools at Yewa and Egba Divisions respectively.
According to Ifede, the governor gave the approval as a pointer to the passion that the current administration has for reforming the education sector and putting it in an enviable position for other states to emulate.
“In retrospect of the last promotion exercise, the commission was also the first to conduct promotion interviews and release promotion letters to its staff,” he said.
The TESCOM boss noted that the promotion of personnels plan promotion as and when due was a vital element of compensation, stating that the gesture would engender diligence and enhance their performances in terms of impartation of quality knowledge to students.
He assured teachers, that the State government would soon pay all entitlements owed to put smiles on their faces, advising them to reciprocate government’s gesture by exhibiting full commitment to their official duties.
He commended the current administration for prioritising teachers’ welfare, progress and development, as would the morale of the teaching workforce in the state.
In his remark, the Permanent Secretary, TESCOM, Dr Abdulwaheed Olanloye advised the academic and non-academic staff to imbibe integrity and discipline for relevance in their places of assignments.
In their responses on behalf of other members of staff, Mr Olowu Adedoyin and Mrs Idayat Kabeerah lauded the effort of the government for showing keen interest in teachers’ welfare and education in general, stating that the transformation was already manifesting.