Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, is celebrating the recruitment of 2,000 teachers into public and secondary schools in the state within 20 months, while Jigawa State has recruited over 10,000 teachers.
Aiyedatiwa’s Chief Press Secretary, Ebenezer Adeniyan, announced this among other achievements while featuring on an Akure-based radio station, Crest FM, on Friday.
Aiyedatiwa described the recruitment of 2,000 teachers as one of the major achievements of his administration since assuming office on December 27, 2023.
However, the figure pales in comparison to the recruitment of over 10,000 teachers achieved in a few months by the Jigawa State Government, according to State Governor, Umar Namadi.
According to reports, Ondo State received N138.71 billion from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) from January 2025 to June 2025, while the State Internal Revenue Service (ODIRS) generated over N28 billion during the same period.
Thefrontrank reports that additionally, N120.359 billion was shared to the nine oil-producing states, including Ondo State, as derivation revenue in July 2025.
Speaking further on the governor’s achievements, Adeniyan also mentioned the payment of salary arrears, payment of backlogs of pensions, and gratuities to retirees in the state.
Adeniyan boasts that the recruitment of 2,000 teachers was a landmark achievement that any of the previous administrations in the state was unable to achieve.
“In this state (Ondo State), how many governors have recruited more than 3,000 people, including over 2,000 teachers into the service?” the governor’s spokesperson asked.
He also listed the flagging off of the dualization of Igbokoda-Okitipupa road, Akungba-Ikare road, and Akure-Idanre road as part of the major achievements of Aiyedatiwa in 20 months.
Adeniyan described the critics of Aiyedatiwa’s administration as people looking for political appointments but unable to make the commissioners’ list.
Unlike Ondo State, the Jigawa State Government said over 10,000 teachers had been recruited into public schools as part of efforts to address poor literacy levels and strengthen the foundation of learning across the state.
Governor Umar Namadi, in an exclusive interview with Punch newspapers on August 26, 2025, said the decision followed a baseline survey that revealed that eight out of every 10 pupils in Primary One could neither read nor write.
Namadi said that to address the acute teacher shortage, his government “confirmed 3,000 of the 4,500 J-Teach temporary staff as permanent and pensionable, recruited another 3,000 fresh teachers, and employed 4,200 more at the senior secondary level, bringing in more than 10,000 new teachers within a few months.”
“Education is the bedrock of any society. Our findings were alarming, so we had to act fast,” the governor told Punch.
Thefrontrank reports that Governor Namadi was sworn in on May 29, 2023, succeeding Abubakar Badaru.
