National Teachers’ Institute Retrains 5000 Nationwide

The National Teachers’ Institute (NTI),  has disclosed plans to rebuild uild the capacity of 5,000 teachers across Nigeria.

NTI's Director in Kaduna, Musa Maitafsir disclosed made the disclosure on Sunday in Abuja.

He said the exercise has been approved by Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu.

He also noted that part of the 2022 appropriated funds released to the Institute under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

 “Over the years, NTI ha been very active in carrying out this primary assignment based in the Act no.7 of 1978.

“The act mandates the Institute to train and retrain Nigerian teachers using distance learning techniques,” he said.

He also said that the Institute had commenced the 2022 Nigeria
Communication Commission (NCC), Education Support Fund for Digital Literacy training of Nigerian teachers.

According to him, the Institute had also commenced the 2021 UBEC Basic Education Support Fund across the country.

“NTI had also started the Digital Literacy Programme of Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning Empoweent (AGILE) projets in Kebbi and Katsina states,” the NTI CEO added.

Maitafsir also said that various capital and constituency training
workshops across some National Assembly constituencies in the nation were ongoing.

He said,”the Institute has put in place all the necessary mechanisms that will ensure successful and impactful training workshops.

“This is for a truly effective and valuable approach to teaching and learning that teachers of today desire to excel in their jobs.”

Maitafsir commended the Federal Government for according priority to the teaching profession and teacher education since the beginning of the present administration.

He vowed,”we in the Institute would continue to do our best in discharging our mandate creditably.”

 

 

NAN