Photo: The Delta State Commissioner for Primary Education, Dr. Kingsley Ashibogwu (middle) in a group photograph with the Director of Schools in the Ministry, Lady Funmi Ighavbota and the Chairman of Ndokwa East Chapter of NUT, Lady Comr. Eseoghene Ajusah during a courtesy visit to the Commissioner in Asaba.
Teachers in Delta State have been told to sustain the core values of their profession and contribute their quota in driving the education system in the state to enviable heights.
The State Commissioner for Primary Education, Dr. Kingsley Ashibogwu stated this in his office in Asaba when the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Ndokwa East Chapter paid him a courtesy visit.
He noted that the state government was irrevocably committed in taking education to the highest peak in the state for other states to emulate.
Dr. Ashibogwu said that enhanced education could only be actualized through the support of teachers by ensuring that they redouble their commitment in their teachings so as to impact on the learners.
He urged teachers to sustain the tempo of the teaching process and ensure that they uphold their professional ethics in teaching and learning activities, just as he told them to take the children as theirs and as leaders of tomorrow.
Dr. Ashibogwu said that the Ministry was prepared to collaborate with them as a Union, adding that the Union should be ready at all times to improve the educational system.
The Commissioner stated that as a Union, they must see themselves as partners in progress with the state government, stressing that teaching was a noble profession just as he enjoined them to be good ambassadors of the profession.
Earlier, the Ndokwa East Branch Chairman of the NUT, Lady Comr. Eseoghene Ajusah said that the visit was to congratulate the commissioner on his appointment and to solicit his support for the transportation of their members to Asaba for the forthcoming World Teachers Day Celebration.
She also appealed to the Commissioner to assist them with an administrative office in Ndokwa East, adding that the Ministry should approve one of the schools where they had extra classroom blocks possibly Ashaka primary school for their administrative office.
