LAGOS, NIGERIA– Nigerian Breweries Plc has formally flagged off the 12th edition of the Maltina Teacher of the Year competition.
The highly anticipated yearly effort is developed to recognise, appreciate, and reward impressive main and secondary school teachers for their invaluable contributions to the country’s educational sector.
Declaring this year’s edition open, the Business Secretary, Legal Director, and Secretary to the Nigerian Breweries-Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund, Mr Uaboi Agbebaku, stated that the competitors remains a core pillar of the business’s Corporate Social Obligation masterplan.
He emphasised that the initiative intends to commemorate the crucial function teachers play in shaping the lives of Nigerian children.
Unprecedented Bounty Waits For the 2026 Winner
Because its creation in 2015, the Maltina Instructor of the Year platform has actually grown exponentially, getting no less than 11,723 entries, while producing 305 state champions and 11 total national winners.
For the 12th edition, the organisers have partnered with Honda Automobile Nigeria Limited for the very first time, and this would considerably upgrade the grand prize plan.
The 2026 prize structure is as follows:
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Grand National Winner: A new Honda HR-V SUV, a 10 million cash prize, totally funded international capacity development training, a personalized infrastructural advancement project for their school, and a 1 year complimentary supply of Maltina.
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First Runner-Up: A 5 million prize money.
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Second Runner-Up: A 3 million cash prize.
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State Champions: 1 million cash prize for every local champ throughout the federation.
Qualified public and independent school teachers can use directly by checking out the devoted competition website at www.maltinateacheroftheyear.com. Alternatively, applicants can download the physical form, fill it out, scan it, and email it to [
e-mail safeguarded] or send it to any Nigerian brewery office, and their entry will
still stand. Registration is totally free for all instructors. Check out Likewise: 2025 Maltina teacher of the year: Young Makoko boy influences as Abuja instructor emerges winner. Eligibility for Registration Need to be a teacher in any public or private primary or secondary school in Nigeria. Should be properly signed up with the Educators Registration Council of Nigeria
(TRCN ). Need to not be more than 55 years of age.
Stakeholders Outline Serious Deficits Dealing With Educators
While applauding Nigerian Breweries for solitarily raising the social status of Nigerian instructors, labour union leaders at the flag-off event used the medium to lament the extreme socio-economic realities confronting class instructors across the country.
The State Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Lagos State Wing, Mr Olugbenga Ayetoba, along with the President of the All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Lagos State, Mr Olusola Masheyi, voiced deep regret over the bad remuneration, substandard working conditions, and intensifying security hazards dealing with schools in Oyo State where instructors and students were abducted as a case study.
They noted that the mentor occupation has actually suffered deep systemic overlook from successive federal governments, which has made the occupation less appealing to top-tier skill.
This reality has actually eventually caused a decline in the general quality of basic education across the nation.
Speaking throughout an executive panel session titled “How Educational Support Can Improve Knowing Outcomes for Teachers and Students,” the Lagos State Planner of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Princess Adaobi Ekwuno, prompted all levels of government to right away update standard infrastructure in public schools to support modern digital knowing tools.
The 2026 competitors delights in complete recommendation from the Federal Ministry of Education and is technically supported by the NUT, ANCOPSS, and the TRCN.
The Maltina Teacher of the Year Hall of Popularity The nationwide winner of this year’s edition will sign up with an elite hall of previous champions who have gone on to act as educational ambassadors throughout West Africa. Below are previous winners of this prominent competition
The entry window is officially open, and the selection panel, making up prominent academics and market heads, will begin sorting regional portfolios ahead of the grand ending set up for later on this scholastic year.