NTI mulls 774 study centres
By Moses Kolo
The National Teachers’ Institute (NTI) plans to establish study centres in the 774 local government areas in Nigeria.
Its Director/Chief Executive, Prof. Sadiya Sani-Daura, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna.
She said the study centres would be fully equipped and staffed to enhance its operations, as part of efforts to make its services accessible to Nigerians irrespective of their places of domicile.
“Already, we have state-of-the-art zonal and state centres, and we will leverage on this feat to make the planned LGA centres to succeed,” she said.
According to Sani-Daura, the institute is fully committed to ensuring that Nigerian teachers upgrade their capacities.
”Everybody can update and improve his or her capacity. We are out to ensure that Nigerian teachers achieve this in no distant time.”
This, she said, was extremely imperative so that teachers would not lag behind, and make them to be in tune with extant global trends in teaching and learning.
Sani-Daura highlighted that the world has moved on, leveraging on emerging technologies, new teaching and learning methods, hence teachers in Nigeria must urgently catch up with the world.
She reiterated commitment to transform the NTI into a world-class teacher training institution in line with its statutory mandates.
The director said the institute had commenced the award of Degrees, Post-Graduate Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Education in affiliation with universities like ABU Zaria, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, University of Maiduguri and the Nmadi Azikiwe University, among others.
Sani-Daura stressed that education is critical to providing plausible solutions to the problems bedevilling Nigeria.
“Yes, with proper attention given to the education sector at all levels, we will get solutions to all our problems including crimes and criminality.” (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
Edited by Bashir Rabe Mani
