Raymond Ozoji, Awka reports
The Teachers' Registration Council of Nigeria ( TRCN) says that professors not registered with the council may quit teaching profession as all teachers in the country are mandated to register with the body in order to regulate the teaching profession in Nigeria .
Presenting an update on TRCN at a meeting of stakeholders in the teaching sector in Awka , state secretary of the Nigeria Union of Teachers ( NUT ) Anambra state wing comrade Livinus Eta Omini stated that TRCN was the statutory body for the regulation of the teaching profession in the country .
Omini explained that the duties and obligations of the teachers' registration council of Nigeria include the production of a data base for all teachers in the country which he said was the remote reason why all teachers were expected to register with the council .
The Anambra NUT state secretary also disclosed that recently the federal government wrote to all professors who were in the teaching profession to begin to vacate the profession, if they were not registered with TRCN .
According to him, the state council visited the federal college of education ( technical ) Umunze where the provost of the institution affirmed that before he was given appointment as provost of the college, he was compelled to show his TRCN number.
He also stated that students in universities and colleges of education upon graduation, they were compulsorily inducted into TRCN emohasizing that anyone who does not possess the TRCN certification, should vacate the teaching profession .
He noted also that TRCN has come up with a schedule that from 18 October, 2017, teachers not registered with TRCN , would be made to write professional verification examination pointing out that such people will go to the state offices of TRCN and purchase forms for the exams while informing also that TRCN have written to all teachers across the federation to register to avoid being elimenated from the profession.
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