Nigeria: Report: Part II: Analytic section: cont. 27

The EFA 2000 Assessment: Country Reports
Nigeria

Table 31: Primary School Pupil/Teacher Ratio by States 1991 - 1996

	PUPIL/TEACHER RATIO BY STATES 1991 -1996
STATE	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
ABIA	49	61	60	53	52	33
ADAMAWA	34	34	34	38	47	53
AKWA-IBOM	52	48	44	45	41	42
ANAMBRA	34	26	24	23	25	21
BAUCHI	30	30	32	32	35	37
BENUE	40	41	38	38	38	46
BORNO	48	48	51	53	42	56
CROSS RIVER	48	46	43	38	37	32
DELTA	48	43	46	44	35	35
EDO	48	52	49	44	42	34
ENUGU	34	41	35	37	33	27
IMO	49	41	36	36	37	31
JIGAWA	45	45	44	42	44	44
KADUNA	42	33	36	38	35	31
KANO	45	48	45	46	49	56
KATSINA	66	81	50	49	48	29
KEBBI	27	25	25	27	31	34
KOGI	40	33	33	37	35	30
KWARA	22	16	22	20	22	21
LAGOS	59	50	48	48	31	28
NIGER	27	26	31	33	35	26
OGUN	35	34	33	31	32	29
ONDO	30	29	27	21	28	30
OSUN	33	31	30	30	32	29
OYO	33	31	31	30	27	26
PLATEAU	30	30	30	30	30	31
RIVERS	42	44	42	43	42	39
SOKOTO	27	36	27	46	33	30
TARABA	34	45	39	40	53	22
YOBE	48	41	38	65	68	73
ABUJA	22	24	21	28	28	26
NIGERIA (NATIONAL)	37	39	37	37	36	34

Source: Statistics Division, FME Abuja.

Table 31 Provides additional information on the performance of states over the years (1991-1996) in the provision of primary school teachers. The situation with Pupil/ Teacher ratio fluctuates suggesting that there were good years and bad years.

Table 32

PERCENTAGE OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS (Grad., NCE, GD1, GDII) (NATIONAL)
Year	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
MF	78.2	78.8	80.8	78.2	78.8	79.76	80.4
M	39.6	34.0	39.5	38.2	37.4	37.96	38.1
F	38.6	38.8	41.3	40.0	41.4	41.8	42.3

Fig. H

As earlier discussed the minimum teaching qualification for primary school has been the Teacher Certificate Grade II. Using this qualification as minimum (since the dead-line for it to be phased out is not yet over), the percentages of qualified male/female teachers were highest in 1992 and 1996 with 80.8% and 80.4% respectively. The graph shows the trend between male and female qualified teachers. The percentage of qualified male teachers was higher in 1990 and the percentages of female teachers were higher from 1991 to 1996. The trend suggests a declining interest to teach by males.

Table 33: DISTRIBUTION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS BY QUALIFICATION AND GENDER

	GRAD. QUL.	GRAD. UNQLY.	NCE & EQUV.	GD I	TC GD. II	WASC/ GCE	OTHERS
MF	6174 (1.5)	3204 (0.8)	139025 (33.4)	24763 (5.9)	161550 (38.7)	21291 (5.1)	60740 (14.6)
M	2534 (0.6)	1591 (0.4)	56348 (13.5)	11297 (2.7)	83503 (20.0)	12495 (3.0)	49180 (11.8)
F	3640 (0.9)	1613 (0,4)	82677 (19.9)	13466 (3.2)	78047 (18.7)	8796 (2.1)	11560 (2.8)

Source: Statistics Division, FME Abuja.