Union Asks Fed Govt, States To Improve Teachers’ Welfare

National president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Audu Titus Amba, has called connected the national and authorities governments to instrumentality each the approved teacher payment packages.
The national described them arsenic indispensable to repositioning the acquisition assemblage for prime learning outcomes.

Amba, who stated this successful Abuja recently, urged authorities astatine each levels to make environments that beforehand teacher collaboration, inclusiveness and innovation.

He drew attraction to Nigeria’s increasing teacher shortage, citing a Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) study that indicates a shortage of implicit 190,000 teachers successful nationalist superior schools nationwide.

While commending the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) for its efforts, Amba appealed to the national authorities to reconstruct capable backing to the council, stressing its cardinal relation successful maintaining professionalism and standards successful the teaching profession.

The NUT main besides called connected the Edo State authorities to rescind its determination to manus implicit schools to missions, describing acquisition arsenic a cardinal close that the authorities indispensable protect.
Amba lamented the non-implementation of the caller minimum wage for teachers successful respective states, disclosing that portion immoderate person partially complied, others person yet to statesman payment. He urged the defaulting states to prioritise the payment of teachers, arsenic their information straight affects acquisition outcomes.

“The well-being of teachers is important to attracting and retaining talents successful the profession,” helium said and called for the implementation of the incentives approved successful 2020, including the peculiar wage scale, harmonised status age, bursary awards, and lodging schemes for teachers successful agrarian areas.

Also, the NUT president called connected the authorities to amended acquisition financing and warned that underfunding remains 1 of the top impediments to achieving Nigeria’s acquisition goals.