Lagos recruits 1,000 teachers as 168, 843 pupils write JSS exams

No fewer than168, 843 pupils in Lagos state took part in the 2016 Primary 6 Placement Test into Junior Secondary School 1, Executive Chairman of the state Universal Basic Education Board, Dr Ganiyu Oluremi Sopeyin has said.


Besides, he said Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the employment of an additional 1000 teachers for the state secondary schools. Sopeyin, who monitored the exercise said that the number represented the total number of pupils from both the state owned public schools and their private counterpart that took part in the test.

He said that the test which took place in 255 designated centres across the state was adjudged to be one of the best ever recorded by the state as question papers and answer scripts known as the OMR sheets as well as officials got to their respective centres ahead of time.

This, according to him had given rise to an upsurge recorded followed a renewed confidence and improved standard of public education in the state especially in the last one year of the Ambodeled administration. Shopeyin, however, noted that despite the state government earlier announcement of the time and date of the commencement of the exercise, some pupils came to the examination centres behind schedule while some pupils who were not registered for the exams also reported for it in some centres.

He said: “All these minor hitches were immediately addressed peacefully without harassment or molestation.” He reiterated the government’s commitment to provide qualitative and quantitative education in conducive atmosphere in the state.

This, he said has led the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode to approve the employment of an additional 1000 teachers for the state secondary schools. He explained that the employment of additional 1,000 teachers into the state owned secondary schools would complement the existing workforce in the state owned secondary schools to take care of the upsurge recorded in placement test