Lagos, Nigeria: Friday June 1st, 2018: The search for the 2018 Maltina Teacher of the
Year has kicked off with a call on teachers across the country to avail themselves
of the opportunity presented by the initiative.
Corporate Affairs Adviser
of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Kufre Ekanem explained that entries for the 2018
Maltina Teacher of the Year which opened on Friday, May 25, 2018 will close on
July 2, 2018.
He enjoined interested teachers to download
application forms from the Maltina website – www.maltina-nigeria.com. Applications forms are
to be completed and uploaded to the website or sent by email to maltinateacheroftheyear@heineken.com or post to P.M.B. 12632,
Marina, Lagos.
Ekanem, the 2018 Maltina
Teacher of the Year would get N1 million, a trophy and another N1 million every
year for the next five years, as well as a block of classrooms built at the
school where the winner teaches.
The first runner-up will
receive N1 million and a trophy, while the second runner-up will have N750, 000
and a trophy. In addition, each state champion, including the winner and the
first and the second runners-up will get N500, 000.
At the flag-off of the
2018 edition recently, the 2017 Maltina Teacher of the Year, Mr Felix Udochukwu Ariguzo
urged the government and other corporate organisations
to emulate the example of Nigerian Breweries Plc and motivate teachers in order
to improve the standard of education in the country.
In her key note address
at the event, the Head of Department of Educational Foundations at the
University of Lagos, Professor Ngozi Osarenren explained that teachers are invaluable
drivers of societal norms and the teaching profession must be respected to
attract the best and the brightest.
Osarenren, a former
Commissioner for Education in Edo State, listed factors that could attract the
best hands to the profession to include professionalising teaching, reasonable
and guaranteed salary, job security and competitive entry requirements for
would-be teachers.
Other
dignitaries at the flag-off included Barrister Okechukwu Okoroafor, Assistant
General Secretary, Nigeria Union of Teachers; Dr Saadatu Saidu, Permanent
Secretary, Kano State Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and
Innovation; the Permanent Secretary, Anambra State Ministry of Education, Mr
Nwankwo Linus; and the Director of Establishment in the Lagos State Ministry of
Education, Mr Biola Baiyewu, who represented the Permanent Secretary, Mrs
Adebunmi Adekanye.
The Maltina Teacher of
the Year initiative has produced three grand winners: Rose Nkemdilim Obi of
Anambra State (2015), Imoh Essien of Akwa Ibom State (2016) and Felix, Ariguzo
of Delta State (2017). It has also produced 69 State Champions and six
runners-up.
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