The Zamfara State government has employed additional 110 emergency teachers to take students on extra lessons.

The employment was done to cover the period schools were shut down in the state.

In a statement disclosed by the Commissioner of Information in Zamfara, Ibrahim Dosara, during a press conference at the Government House in Gusau, the state capital.

He stated that the state has 200 secondary schools and the teachers would be deployed to various schools for their primary assignment.

When asked if the number of employed teacher will suffice for extra lessons across the number of schools in the state, Dosara responded that they were employed for a purpose.

He stated that the schools were ordered to reopen after consultations with the security agencies whom he said promised to deploy more operatives to various schools in the state.

“We did not reopen the schools on our own without consulting the security experts because they guided us,” said the commissioner.

He also clarified that not all the schools in the state were authorized to reopen, stressing that the insecurity situation in some areas of the state made it impossible to reopen schools in the affected areas.

Of the 200 secondary schools in Zamfara, the state government classified 85 as red, 75 as green, and 40 as yellow.