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Benue Assembly lifts suspension on SUBEB recruitment
The Benue State House of Assembly on Tuesday lifted the suspension placed on the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) recruitment in the state.
The suspension was lifted after the Ad-Hoc Committee Investigating Controversies Surrounding Recruitment of Primary School Teachers by the board concluded its assignment.
The Chairman of the committee, Mr. Cephas Dyako (LP/Konshisha), said a total of 74,574 candidates applied for the recruitment, while 48,895 sat for the Computer-Based Test (CBT).
According to him, 7,224 candidates were shortlisted for the oral interview.
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He said the allocation of cutoff marks to each local government area was based on performance, adding this was to avoid over-dominance of some highly performed local governments over others in the recruitment exercise.
He said: “Based on the needs assessment carried out by the board, no local government got less than 200 candidates shortlisted for the oral interview so far except Makurdi and Ohimini LGAs who got 144 and 126, respectively.
“A total of 2,476 were yet to be shortlisted due to the suspension of the recruitment exercise.”
The Speaker of the House, Mr. Hyacinth Dajo, said the board should reassess the recruitment process and ensure compliance with extant laws based on fairness, equity, and justice to reflect state character.
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