21/10/2023
Reps want primary teachers to earn N250,000 salary, secondary N500,000, lecturers N1m monthly
By
Ibrahim Ramalan
October 19, 2023
House of Reps
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HAbubakar Fulata, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on University Education has called for salary increment for primary, secondary and university teachers.
The chairman said the teachers should earn N250,000, N500,000 and N1 million respectively as monthly renumeration.
Mr Fulata was speaking at a One-Day National Stakeholders’ Workshop on the Development of a Roadmap for the Nigerian Education Sector (2023-2027), in Abuja on Thursday.
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Fulata said that it is important for Nigerian teachers to be more encouraged by paying them adequately to teach the children.
He also stressed the need to translate all subject textbooks into local languages so as to catch up with the world.
According to him, efforts have been made by past administrations as regards the country’s education but those efforts had not yielded the desired results.
“It is a thing of concern that from decades, several efforts on policies made by successive government to resuscitate and improve the education sector and those efforts have continued to create very little progress.
“All over the world, the subject of language of instruction has always been local language of those countries. If you go to the UK, education is taught in English, if you go to France, education from the basic level up to the tertiary level is taught in French.
It is in Nigeria that you teach language of instruction in English. Our problem has always been that we are teaching our children subjects they ought to have been taught in their local language.
“All Mathematical, Physics, Chemistry textbook and what have you should be in our local languages. There is no way we can catch up with the world if we continue teaching our children in a foreign language.👈👈