Teachers Day: There’s s always pay day for hard workers, Ogun best teacher …As Abiodun lavishes house, cash on teachers

Basking in the euphoria of  emerging the best teacher in Ogun State, on the occasion of  this year’s Teachers Day,  a Junior Secondary School teacher from Abeokuta Grammar School, Ogun State, Odegbola Ayodele, has  called on  teachers to be committed and remain steadfast in the discharge of their duties.

This is even as Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun appreciated and showered the award-winning teacher  with a 2-bedroom bungalow in the state owned Princes Court.

The governor made the disclosure while addressing  executive members of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Academic Staff Union Secondary Schools and All NIgerian Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools, to mark the international day

Ayodele, who  attributed his emergence as the overall best teacher to hardwork, urged teachers to be committed and remain steadfast in the discharge of their duties.

According to him, “there is always a pay day ahead for hard workers”.

Adewale Abayomi, from Odua Comprehensive High School, Imoru-Ijebu,  who was the best teacher in the Senior Secondary category,  went home with the sum of N2.5m while  Mrs. Mary Adeyemi from St. Paul’s School II, Sagamu, who was the best primary school teacher received a cash gift of N2 million.

Abiodun described the commemoration as significant “because it draws attention to the noble role of the teaching profession in nation-building in line with a standard-setting instrument that addresses the status and situations of teachers around the world”.

The governor  who said he would continue to encourage teachers for efficient service delivery, added that is was  imperative to celebrate those who have shown creativity, dedication and hard work in the course of imparting knowledge to our younger ones.

While describing teachers as partners in building the state, the governor  said his administration would continue to appreciate them for their individual and collective roles in creating new learning environment for the children of the state through the Ogun digiClass and other platforms, especially during the pandemic Covid-19 lockdown.

The governor, who enjoined teachers to continue to be  innovative and painstaking in the discharge of  their  duties, added that they  owed the state and the country, the responsibility of ensuring that children are adequately cater  for the physically,  mentally and socially to meet future challenges.