Niger State pegs teachers’ retirement age at 65, effective January 2026

By Wole Mosadomi, Minna

The Niger State Government has approved the hold of the status property for teachers successful the authorities to 65 years, effectual January 2026.

Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago made the announcement during the 2025 World Teachers’ Day solemnisation held successful Minna. He noted that the determination aims to sphere the wealthiness of acquisition wrong the teaching assemblage and guarantee the continuous transportation of cognition to younger generations.

Bago disclosed that the connection has been forwarded to the State House of Assembly for domestication and transition into law.

In addition, the politician reinstated the outgo of Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) levies successful schools, emphasizing that specified payments indispensable beryllium approved and managed done the Ministry of Education to guarantee transparency and due utilization.

Reaffirming his administration’s committedness to teachers’ welfare, Governor Bago announced a wage grant of ₦20,000 for each teachers successful the state, to instrumentality effect adjacent month. He besides donated an 18-seater autobus to the Niger State section of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT).

The politician further directed that each superior schoolhouse teachers’ employment and promotion matters beryllium handled by the Local Government Service Commission, portion the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) volition play a supervisory role.

He besides approved a enactment retreat for teachers astatine Level 17, stressing the value of continuous nonrecreational development.

In his remarks, the NUT State Chairman, Comrade Adamu Mohammed Akayago, commended Governor Bago for his efforts successful improving teachers’ payment and for approving an ₦80,000 minimum wage for authorities workers. He highlighted the captious relation of teachers arsenic “architects of the corporate future” and called for sustained enactment for the profession.

The 2025 World Teachers’ Day solemnisation was themed “Together for Teachers, Together for Tomorrow.”

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