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                                                                          CHAPTER ONE Background to the Study     Sometimes ago, there was an unprecedented expansion in the education industries especially in Ondo State specifically during the Second Republic. There was an unprecedented increase in the number of Schools and Colleges in the state during the said period. Many primary school teachers left their school to the secondary schools due to the increased number of Students in the Secondary Schools. This development propelled the State Government to set-up more teachers’ Colleges to supplement the existing ones which made the Colleges to rise to about eleven in numbers in the then Ondo State including the present Ekiti State. However, the Colleges were closed down and have been replaced with modern and developed institutions such as the National Certificate in Education awarding institutions and Universities. Whereas, most of the government owned Teachers’ Training Colleges were

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1.    Introduction Human rights are moral principles or norms which describe certain standards of human behaviour, and are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law. Human rights is one of the basic rights that says that every person should be treated in a fair equal right without cruelty or distinction of any kind such as race, colour, sex, language, and religion, political, national or social origin. They are those rights which are essential for us to live as human beings, without human rights, we cannot fully develop and use our human qualities, our intelligence, our talent and our spirituality. Disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts and has outraged the conscience of mankind. Human right is a necessary consequence of one’s citizenship which is based on the reciprocity between rights and duties. Rights are not rights that have been donated to the Nigerian people through an act of benevolence by