Delta Ministry, Board Draw Battle Line Over Staff Posting

Delta State Ministry of Secondary Education and Post Primary Education Board (PPEB) are at loggerheads over teaching and non-teaching staff posting.

While the ministry recently posted some teaching and non-teaching staff who it said had overstayed in some particular schools, PPEB seemed to have frustrated the ministry’s efforts with its different postings of staff.

Earlier, on September 11, 2025, the ministry urged principals of various public secondary schools across the state whose teachers were affected by the recent transfer but refused to proceed to their new schools to ensure that the affected teachers do the needful, or the principals and the teachers risk sanction.

The state commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs. Rose Ezewu, gave the warning in a statement, recalling that most affected teachers had stayed in their former schools for too long.

Ezewu said that her ministry observed that some teachers were still in their old schools, despite being transferred to new schools, adding that any teacher found culpable would be dealt with decisively per the extant rule guiding the civil service.

The commissioner reminded such a category of teachers that the posting was in order and in adherence to due procedures.

While the dust was raised by the teachers’ refusal to comply with the posting, PPEB issued supplementary postings for teaching, non-teaching, and vice principalship cadre staff on Saturday, September 13th, 2025.

But Ezewu, in a counter directive on Sunday, September 14th, 2025, faulted PPEB and directed the cancellation of the supplementary postings of teaching, non-teaching, and vice principalship cadre staff earlier released by the PPEB on Saturday, September 13th, 2025.

“All affected staff are hereby instructed to return immediately to their original places of primary assignment as contained in the initial official posting made prior to school resumption.

“Furthermore, any Principal who fails to release affected staff back to their original schools, as directed, shall face disciplinary action in line with extant regulations.

“Similarly, staff members who disregard this directive will be sanctioned accordingly. This circular takes immediate effect and must be treated with utmost urgency,” Ezewu threatened.