The National Teachers Institute, NTI, has been given permission to award degree of Education in Distance Learning, according to its outgoing Director -General, Professor Musa Garba -Maitafsir.
He spoke on Monday in Kaduna when he handed over to his successor, Professor Sa’adiyya Sani-Daura.
Garba-Maitafsir said Sani-Daura was coming at a time when the environment was fertile and recalled the begining of his administration.
The outgoing DG said, he met the institute as an administrative outlet, but had transformed it into an academic outfit, with the institute staff involved in marking of scripts and other academic activities.
Garba-Maitafsir said that in the last ministerial briefing, NTI emerged the best performing agency in the Federal Ministry of Education.
Speaking further on his stewardship, the outgoing boss said when he came he inherited a huge debt of about N1.2 billion and his administration had paid 95 percent of the debts.
Garba-Maitafsir said “My administratiion cut the unnecessary spendings, renovated chalets at the NTI Conference Centre as well as refurbished the institute’s Printing Press, where printing items of the institute were now printed there.
He, therefore, advised Sani-Daura to maintain the standard, vowing to avail her of his wise counsel and advice for her to succeed.
Responding, the NTI new boss, said his administration would champion the mandate and objectives of the institute, saying she would consolidate on the feats of the previous administratiion of Garba-Maitafsir.
-9News Nigeria.
