As public school pupils and students resumed the third term of the 2024/2025 academic session in Osun State, the fate of the newly recruited teachers in the state is still unclear.
OSUN DEFENDER reports that Governor Ademola Adeleke, after assuming office, announced that his administration will recruit new teachers for the state public schools.
The Governor’s announcement came after it sacked the 1,500 teachers recruited by former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola.
The sacked teachers were recruited after Oyetola lost his re-election to the incumbent.
However, more than two years after the nullification of their appointment and the subsequent announcement of a new recruitment exercise, the state government has yet to appoint the teachers.
OSUN DEFENDER reports that the state Commissioner for Education, Dipo Eluwole had at different fora, talked about when the recruitment exercise will be concluded.
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Eluwole had, while speaking with OSUN DEFENDER last year, promised that the recruitment exercise would be concluded before the start of the second term academic session. However, the state government failed to keep to its promise.
While the recruited teachers did not resume during the last academic session, the situation is still the same as public schools resumed for this term’s academic session on Monday, April 28, 2025.
Recall that the Osun government had, between Monday, September 9 and Friday, September 13, 2024, conducted interviews for the successful applicants seven months after the screening examination.
The applicants had sat for the screening examination in February 2024 and have since been waiting for the recruitment.
Also, Governor Adeleke on Monday, March 10, 2025, directed immediate action on letters of appointment to newly recruited teachers in Osun State.
However, since the directive, nothing has been heard of the recruitment exercise with applicants left in limbo.
Meanwhile, a nongovernmental organisation, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has expressed disappointment in the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke over the prolonged delay in the issuance of appointment letters to the shortlisted candidates for the 2024 teachers’ recruitment in the state.
CDHR, in a letter dated April 8, 2025, signed by its chairman in Osun State, Comrade Emmanuel Olowu, and addressed to Governor Adeleke and the Ministry of Education, said the delay is having a negative impact on the education system of Osun State, as the vacancies remain unfilled, resulting in increased workload for the already existing staff.
Olowu urged the government to take prompt action to alleviate the situation by immediately allocating appointment letters to all qualified applicants, adding that the deployment of ‘Imole Youth Corps’ to teach in public schools may cause damage to the future of children in the state considering the technical skill of teaching.
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