Benue State Government has pledged to boost the morale of teachers in the state by ensuring that every one of them owns his or her house before retirement.

The government is also unveiling a loan scheme that will enable teachers have access to loans to give their children better educational trainings.

The Director General, Benue State Education Quality Assurance Agency (BEQA), Dr. Terna Francis, disclosed this on Thursday while playing host to members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ) Benue state Council.

Dr Francis who commended the state Governor, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia for deliberately motivating Benue teachers and the entire state workforce said the days when teachers received their salaries in heaven was over.

He recalled that “In the past, teachers were nobodies. They were considered as anything but going forward, the State Governor Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia has promised that he is going to make sure that before retirement, every teacher is going to own a house of his or her own.”

He noted that by July this year 2014,his office in collaboration with the state Urban Development will go round such identified schools to close them down. (Daily Sun)