The Chairman of Benue State Universal Basic Education Board, Matthew Mnyam, has said no fewer than 256 dead public primary school teachers and other undisclosed numbers of retired teachers were on the payroll of the state.
Mnyam made this disclosure on Friday in Makurdi, the state capital, while briefing journalists on the activities of his board.
The SUBEB boss, who said he was mandated by the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, to sanitise the board, revealed that on assumption of office he carried out verification exercise where he discovered the rot.
He also disclosed that some female primary school teachers who by marriage had resigned and left the state were still being paid monthly from the state. Read more