Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has emphasised the importance of training and retraining of teachers, insisting that the quality of teachers and teaching invariably rubbed off on the pupils and the quality of education they got. Governor Ayade noted that that was the reason his administration established a world-class Teachers Continuous Training Institute, TCTI, in Biase, Central Senatorial District of the state. Ayade stated this at the Transcorp Hotel, Calabar, during a flag-off of the Southern Zone phase of the 2019 School-Based Management- School Improvement Programme (SBMC-SIP) Implementation. “We decided to set up a Teachers Continuous Training Institute which core responsibility is to teach teachers on the latest trends in their respective fields. The content of the article published by these online platforms is not new; it has been recirculated several times and has been debunked.

Source: Nigerian Tribune December 07, 2021 08:35 UTC