TRCN insists on January 2020 deadline for registration/licencing of teachers

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, has insisted on the January 2020 date it has set for all teachers in Nigeria to have been registered with it.

According to the Registrar of TRCN, Professor Segun Ajiboye, whoever is not registered with the council as at December 31, 2019 would not be able to teach in the country.

Ajiboye, who stated this in Ibadan while speaking with journalists on Monday, said a reminder letter has been sent to all Commissioners of Education and the Education Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, on the need to ensure that practising teachers in their states get valid license before the deadline.

“That deadline stands. In fact the Minister of Education has directed that TRCN should do a letter to Commissioners of Education and Education secretary in the FCT to remind them about the deadline. By December 2019 anyone not registered and licensed by TRCN may not allowed in our classrooms. by January 2020 enforcement will begin”, Professor Ajiboye declared.

Ajiboye also disclosed that some teachers who were forced to abandon the classroom in the wake of terrorists attacks in the North East are now returning.

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According to him, the plan was to re-motivate and change the psyche of the traumatised teachers to return to school, adding that some of the teachers lost their certificates to terrorism but have been restored by the intervention of the Council.

“Actually it is disheartening we are affected we can’t pretend. We have lost so many teachers to insecurity especially in the northeast. It created trauma. Pupils left the schools. They don’t want to come.

“The teachers themselves left because of what has happened to their colleagues. What we are doing is to bring back our teachers especially in the northeast. A lot of interventions are going on to re-motivate the teachers and change their psyche.

“So many of them left the teaching profession they don’t want to come back but now sanity is returning and our teachers are coming back. Some of them lost their certificates to insurgency”, he said.

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