• Absorbs 9 Per Cent Of Non-Indegenes
The chairman, Oyo state Teaching Service Commission, Akin Alamu, has said 5,000 teachers will be employed out of 6,339 that was invited for oral interview.
Recall that oyonews earlier reported the recruitment exercise into TESCOM.
While speaking on Fresh FM105.9 on a radio programme on Thursday, he stressed that the names of successful applicants are currently being uploaded on the official website of the commission.
”As I speak, there is ongoing uploading of 5,000 successful applicants for the teaching job in Oyo state, before the last hour of today (Thursday 5th), successful candidates will be able to confirmed their names on internet,” Pastor Alamu stated.
He explained that the commission intended to employ 4000 applicants, but the governor of the state, Seyi Makinde gave the directive for additional employment of 1,000 applicants to make it 5,000
He said Governor Makinde’s decision to add more was as a result of his rsolution to get youths employed, opining that out of the 5,000 who will be receiving their employment letters before the end of this month, nine percent were non-indigenes.
More so, the chairman of the commission also hinted that 2,500 non-teaching applicants will start their screening exercise next week as first batch, while other batches follow thereafter.
He confirmed that over 26,000 people applied for non-teaching jobs but only 4,000 will be employed.
The TESCOM boss stated that the commission after the whole employment exercise will employ 150 and 50 physically challenged persons for Teaching and non teaching respectively.
Applicants are directed to use the phone number used to applied for the job, to check their employment status on internet.