Primary education is education given to children in an institution aged 6-11years plus. Primary education is considered vital for the development of

 the state. As Anderson (1973) state, ‘The possibilities of improving the quality of education are strongly influenced by the competence or the human services that local school. System can employ”. Thus, appropriate policies must be designed to ensure that as far as possible only the right people are selected to teach at the primary level, and to be able to get the right people (teachers) i.e teachers proper recruitment and selection must be executed. The prosperity of any organization especially school system depends upon the effort made by  teachers, teachers interaction and their behavior with the student in the classroom is the backbone on which the national curriculum and it implementation lies. Educational policy depends upon those who are directly charge with its implementation and teachers are directly implements of educational policies. In view of these statement, I decided to assess recruitment and retention of teachers in Borno State