Truancy: LG stops headmaster, 3 teachers’ salaries in Jigawa
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Salaries
Dutse, Oct. 6, 2016 (NAN) The Education Department of Buji Local Government Area of Jigawa has stopped the salaries of a Headmaster and three orther teachers of Jajikoli Primary School in Jajikoli village of the council, for alleged truancy.
The council’s Information Officer, Alhaji Ali Safiyanu, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Thursday.
Safiyanu said that the Education Secretary of the council, Alhaji Aliyu Danbazau, gave the directive when he paid an unscheduled visit to the school on Oct. 4.
He explained that the headteacher and the three teachers were absent at the time the secretary visited the school.
He said that during the visit, Aliyu also discovered that all the teachers had not been preparing their daily lesson plan since Sept. 19.
However, the secretary commended managements of Abubakar Wada and Muhammad Birninkudu primary schools for taking their job seriously. (NAN)
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Edited by Abdullahi Yusuf