Maltina opens entries for 2018 teachers’ award

THE Nigerian Breweries PLC has launched the 2018 Maltina Teacher of the year award.

The award also known as Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund was established in 2015 to identify , showcase and reward outstanding teachers in Nigeria.

In a paper to formally commence this year’s edition, Head of Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Lagos, Professor Ngozi Osarenren explained that teachers are invaluable drivers of socie- tal norms and the teaching profession must be respected to attract the best and the brightest.

Osarenren, a former Commissioner for Education in Edo State, noted that if Nigeria must be saved from the menace of unqualified and incompetent teachers, the nation must find career oriented teachers who want to do the job for their passion and not because it is the last option available.

She listed other factors that could attract the best hands to the profession to include professionalisation of teaching, reasonable and guaranteed salary, job security and competitive entry requirements for would-be teachers.

On his part, the Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Mr Jordi Borrut Bel explained that in 2015, the Nigerian Breweries Plc expanded its intervention in education in Nigeria to teachers through the Maltina Teacher of the Year initiative.