Why we extended deadline for Maltina Teacher’s Award – Nigerian Breweries

UCHE AKOLISA
Nigerian Breweries Plc(NB) has disclosed that it extended  the
deadline for submission of entries for the Maltina Teacher-of-the-Year
Awards  from  June 30th, 2015 to July 24th, 2015, due to popular
demands by teachers.

According to the CSR/Sustainability Manager, NB, Emete Tonukari  who
made the disclosure at the weekend while fielding questions from
journalists in Lagos  said  that the extension would enable other
teachers who are yet to, to submit their entries.
“We decided to consider the requests of teachers across the country
who are asking for the extension in deadline to enable them
participate in the awards. It is their awards and we also want as more
teachers that are willing to avail themselves of the opportunity as
possible to participate,” Tonukari said.
Tonukari explained that the innovative award is aimed at making the
teaching profession aspirational by rewarding exceptional teachers.
“A lot of people don’t want to stay in the teaching profession. They
are just there marking time, waiting for other job opportunities. The
award is to make teaching aspirational. We want to make people want to
join the teaching profession.”
On the number of entries so far received, Tonukari said that due to
the various channels of sending entries from across the country, it
would be difficult to give exact figure but noted that the response
has been “ impressive” as  reports from collation centres  indicated
that hundreds of secondary school teachers have submitted entries.
Maltina Teacher-of-the-Year Award is opened to all teachers in public
schools in all the states of the federation and Abuja and will produce
winners at various stages.  The state champions will go home with
N500,000. The national champion( Maltina Teacher of the Year) will get
N1million and a grant of N1million in the next five years. He/she will
also be sent abroad for an all-expenses-paid training while the school
he emerges from will get N25 million worth project  coutesy of the
Nigerian Breweries’Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund.   The
runner-up will win N1 million while the second runner-up gets
N750,000.
Maltina Teacher of the Year Award  was launched by Maltina on May 20,
2015 and has generated an a lot of interest from teachers across the
country. Interested teachers to download the application forms from
the Maltina website, www.maltina-nigeria.com and upload to the site or
return via the company’s post office mail box at P.M.B. 12632, Marina,
Lagos.
Teachers who have issues with collection and submission of forms are
advised to seek assistance by sending email to
[email protected] or calling  01-2717419 for
further enquiries. All applications will be subjected to an intense selection and judging
process by an external and independent panel of judges which has been
constituted to ensure transparency, credibility and objectivity of the
exercise via a 5-step evaluation process.
The grand ceremony to honour the state champions and national champion
has been slated for Monday, October 5, 2015, to coincide with the
World Teachers Day.