Kaduna State government has disclosed that more than 20,000 primary school teachers will be dismissed as they failed to pass examination tests meant for their pupils.

Kaduna Governor Nasir el-Rufai said qualified teachers would be employed to replace the dismissed teachers.

State governor Nasir El-Rufai said that 21,780 teachers, or two-thirds of them, failed to score 75% or higher on assessments usually given to six-year-olds. He said all 33,000 primary schoolteachers in Kaduna State took the test.