Nigerian teachers joined their counterparts in the world to mark the World Teachers’ Day on Saturday but an error spotted on the banner displayed during the celebration got many talking on social media.
World Teachers’ Day, also known as International Teachers’ Day, is celebrated globally every year on October 5.
In commemoration of the event, a march-past was organized by some teachers in Abuja.
A photo of the march-past, however, surfaced online showing some teachers carrying a banner in which the “march” was wrongly spelt as “match”.
Quite a number of Nigerians including Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of education, could not contain their disappointment as the blunder got many talking on Twitter
“Dear Lord. So no one checked that banner to see that a “match” should not be brought near that banner while the teachers are on their March Past? What a day, it has been in our Land. “Cry the Beloved Country”. May our weeping only endure for a night& joy come in the morning,” she wrote.
Quite a number of Nigerians including Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of education, could not contain their disappointment as the blunder got many talking on Twitter
“Dear Lord. So no one checked that banner to see that a “match” should not be brought near that banner while the teachers are on their March Past? What a day, it has been in our Land. “Cry the Beloved Country”. May our weeping only endure for a night& joy come in the morning,” she wrote.
