A senior lecturer at a Nigerian university has accused the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) of withholding his licence since 2019.

The lecturer, who asked not to be named, told FIJ that despite paying a fee of N4,000 for his teaching licence in March 2019, he was yet to get it.

“In 2019, I got my teaching certificate from TRCN after they made an exam a requirement for being certified. The day I went to collect the certificate, they asked me to pay N3,000 for my teaching licence, but since 2019, I’ve not got it,” he told FIJ.

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He explained that administrative bureaucracy in the TRCN office in Ibadan, Oyo State, ruined all his efforts to get his licence.

“I have been to their office in Ibadan countless times, but whenever I go there, it is never available. They are the same people that promised to call us when the licence was ready, but they have not called me for one day,” he said.

He also said that the absence of the licence is stalling his plan to move abroad, adding that he must have a licence from his home country as an educationist before leaving.

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The lecturer said he decided to obtain the licence in 2018, when the TRCN said all Nigerian teachers had to register with them.

FIJ placed several calls to a phone number displayed on the TRCN website, but it did not connect. A text sent to them had also not been responded to at press time.

TRCN is an agency of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education. Established in 1993, its major mandates are the regulation and control of the teaching profession at all levels.