Ogun govt. to conduct mop-up test for teachers on Monday

Ogun state government has fixed Monday to conduct a mop-up test for applicants seeking to join its teaching service.

The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu announced this in a statement on Saturday.

He explained that the government is seeking to recruit new teachers to fill the existing vacancies in the public primary and secondary schools, as well as technical colleges across the state.

The commissioner noted that the mop-up test was being conducted for applicants who missed the Computer-Based Test (CBT) held earlier.

He stressed that the test would hold at two venues – the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta (Egba/Yewa centre), and the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode (Ijebu/Remo centre).

Arigbabu advised the applicants to log on to the Ogun TEACh portal to know their centre and download test slip, as well as go to the examination centres with their printout slips.

He also asked them to adhere strictly to the COVID-19 protocols by wearing their facemasks and be of good behaviour throughout the period of the test.

The recruitment of teachers, under the initiative Ogun State Teaching Experience Acquisition Channel (Ogun TEACh), is being handled by the State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in partnership with the Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) and State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).

Registration for the exercise began on March 31 and ended on April 13, after which the applicants stormed the venue of the tests.

It will be recalled that the commissioner, had in a statement on March 29, had advised that only those with National Certificate in Education (NCE) and Higher National Diploma (HND), as well as Bachelor of Arts/Science/Technology/Engineering, were eligible to apply.