6,251 applicants jostle for 400 UBEC jobs in Enugu

The Enugu State Universal Basic Education
Board (ESUBEB) 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 (UBE) in the state, Mrs Amaka Eze,
said on Wednesday that the Universal Basic
Education Commission (UBEC) 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.
“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,” she said.
The desk officer commended the applicants
for their orderly conduct during the
exercise.
“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,” she said.
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.
Mr Paschal Eke and Miss 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.
(NAN)