6,251 applicants jostle for 400 UBEC teaching jobs in Enugu State

The Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board has recorded 6,251
applications for the 400 slots for primary and secondary schools
teachers allotted it by the Federal Government.
The Desk Officer for Universal Basic Education in the state, Amaka
Eze, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday that the Universal
Basic Education Commission allotted only 400 spaces to the state in
its intervention for the employment of teachers.
Eze, who was in Nsukka for the written interview for candidates from
Enugu North Zone, said the recruitment was Federal Government’s
education intervention programme to ensure that primary and secondary
schools in the country had enough teachers.
Eze said: “This recruitment is government’s intervention programme to
solve the problem of inadequate teachers in some primary and secondary
schools in the country.
“Successful candidates will be employed and they will teach for two
years and will be paid N18,000 as monthly salary.”
The desk officer commended the applicants for their orderly conduct
during the exercise.
She said: “This written interview is going on simultaneously in every
state of the federation.
“It is a two-day interview.
“Some candidates wrote on Tuesday while the remaining are writing
today and those to be recruited will be based on merit.
“Only regular NCE holders from Colleges of Education are qualified
since part-time or sandwich NCE holders are not qualified to apply.”
Eze attributed the high number of candidates that applied for the jobs
to the high rate of unemployment in the country.
“The number of people who applied for this job is an indication that
many people are jobless,” she said.
Paschal Eke and Joy Ezeugwu, both candidates for the exam, commended
the government for the initiative to employ more teachers for primary
and secondary schools in the country.
“Writing this interview is not the problem but my fear is that those
who have connections will give this job to their friends, brothers and
sisters,” Eke said.
“I do not have any connection. God is my own connection and I know He
will not disappoint me,” Ezeugwu, on her part, said.