Maltina To Splash 50 Million Naira On Nigerian Teachers

Teachers in Nigeria may no longer have to wait till they get to heaven before they are rewarded as was the common insinuation in the past, as non-alcohol beverage brand of Nigerian Breweries, Maltina, has said its Teacher-of-the-Year Award will make millionaires out of them this year. In a statement on Friday, the organisers of the annual competition disclosed that it has committed to splash N50 million on winners this year. The national winner of the award, according to the firm, will get one million naira and another one million naira to be paid into his account annually for five years. The winner will also be sent abroad for training by the company.  The runner-up will take one million naira, while the second runner-up gets seven hundred and fifty thousand naira.  The state winners from 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT will be given five hundred thousand naira each. The school that produces the national winner will also become a beneficiary of infrastructural development and projects running into about 25 million naira. The award, organised on the platform of Nigerian Breweries’ Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund, is aimed at restoring the pride of teachers and the dignity of the teaching profession. It was launched by Maltina, Nigeria’s number one non-alcoholic malt brand on May 20th, 2015 and has generated an unprecedented interest from teachers across the country. Reports from collation centres of the Maltina Teacher-of-the-Year awards across the country indicate that hundreds of secondary school teachers are enthusiastically submitting entries for the coveted award. In an interactive session with journalists in Lagos on Friday, Corporate Social Responsibility CSR/Sustainability Manager, Nigerian Breweries, Emete Tonukari, explained that the project is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project for teachers to make the teaching profession aspirational. “It is not a one-off thing or a sales promotion stunt. It is a pure citizenship project to give back to the society,” she said.