Borno state Governor Babagana Zulum, has released ₦1 billion to train teachers across the 27 local government areas of the state.

Zulum announced this during the inauguration of the newly appointed 27 educational secretaries for the local government education authorities in the state this Tuesday,

He says the training will include 1,000 teachers identified to have ‘O’ level certificates and those without certificates but have the requisite experience.

The secretaries were selected following the 2019 review of the state government’s compulsory education law for 2005 which now allows the political appointment of education secretaries with the status and privileges of a permanent secretary.

Before declaring open the training for the teachers, Zulum assured that his administration will continue to prioritize the education sector which he says has reduced the number of out-of-school children from two million to 800,000 within the past five years.