Teachers dumping teaching for other job, FG says.

The Federal Government has raised the alarm over the high number of teachers leaving the teaching profession for other plum jobs.

The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said this during a visit to the housemates of ‘Teachers Naija Reality TV Show’ in Abuja on Thursday.

Nwajiuba, who described teaching as the basis of human development, hailed the organisers of the reality TV show, saying that the programme would attract more people in to the teaching profession.

He said the number of housemates in the show, though small, still represented the divergent interests in the teaching profession.

He said, “This is very minimum in terms of the percentage, when you look at the nearly 2.2 million teachers in Nigeria.

“This is a really small representation of the variety of teachers we have but we think if we can encourage these persons to make the teaching profession look good, it will help us to attract better persons because we are also losing teachers.