The Zamfara State Government has approved the reinstatement and payment of seven months’ salary arrears for 103 teachers earlier affected by the verification exercise conducted by the Ministry of Education, Science and lTechnology.

Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Malam Wadatau Madawaki, disclosed this while briefing journalists on the outcome of the review of the teacher verification exercise.

Madawaki said the affected teachers were wrongly omitted from the list of verified staff due to what he described as “commission or by omission” during the verification process.

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“After the verification exercise, we found out that 103 of these teachers were mistakenly affected. They were supposed to be in the list of declared teachers,” he explained.

The commissioner said following the discovery, the ministry wrote to Governor Dauda Lawal seeking his approval for the reinstatement of the affected teachers and the payment of their withheld salaries.

“From January up to July 2025, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology wrote a letter to His Excellency, the Executive Governor, requesting him to graciously approve the registration of these 103 teachers,” he said.

“Alhamdulillah, the Executive Governor, as a caring father, has approved their registration and also the payment of their outstanding monthly salaries from January to July 2025”, he said.

He emphasized that the ongoing reforms in the education sector are part of the government’s broader efforts to sanitise the system and ensure efficiency in public service.