*As NTI trains 13,302 teachers in Bauchi

BY SUZAN EDEH

Bauchi—THE Federal Government yesterday said it is ready to give priority to teachers’ education with a view to improving the quality of education in the country, even as the National Teachers Institute, NTI, has trained 13,302 teachers in Bauchi State in the last four years.

Speaking at the closing of capacity building workshop for primary and junior secondary teachers at the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, the Minister of State for Education, Mr Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, represented by the Director of Policy, Planning,Management and Research in the Ministry, Mrs Karamot Lawal, said only quality education would enable the country actualise its development goals.

Wike assured that government would however, remain focused in the pursuit of this goal until success was achieved and urged the participants to utilise the opportunity of the workshop to improve their quality of teaching to ensure positive impact on both their pupils or students, even as he noted that it was the responsibility of all to ensure quality education to teeming youths in the country.
             
Speaking earlier, Director-General of the institute, Dr. Ladan Sharehu, informed that the institute had trained 13, 302 teachers in Bauchi State in the last four years, adding that the capacity-building workshop was aimed at enhancing the capacity of teachers in the country.