The Governor Nasir El-Rufai -led Kaduna State Government has dismissed 2,357 teachers who failed the recently conducted competency test.
The state’s Universal Basic Education Board (KADSUBEB) announced the sack in a statement in Kaduna.
The Board’s spokesperson, Hauwa Mohammed, said they conducted a competency test for over 30,000 teachers in December 2021.
She said that 2,192 primary school teachers, including the National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Audu Amba, had been dismissed for refusing to sit for the competency test.
Ms Mohammed said that some 165 of the 27,662 teachers that sat for the competency test were also sacked for poor performances.
