World Teachers Day: Tinubu assures of improved working conditions
President Bola Tinubu has reassured Nigerian teachers of the commitment to repositioning the teaching profession and improving in working conditions of teachers in the country.
This is even as the National President of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Titus Amba, has called on the Federal Government to ensure immediate implementation of the new Salary Scale for teachers alongside other incentives approved for teachers in primary and secondary schools about four years ago.
Tinubu who was represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume and the NUT President spoke on Saturday in Abuja on the occasion of the 2024 World Teachers’ Day commemoration with the theme: Valuing Teachers Voices: Towards a new Social Contract for Education”.
Highlight of the event was the presentation of car gifts by the Federal Government in different categories to the best teachers, administrators and schools under the Presidential awards.
Also, Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris who happened to be the immediate past National President of NUT and Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf were among six Governors who were given awards by NUT in recognition of their immense contributions to the development of education and welfare of teachers in their states.
October 5 is celebrated every year as World Teachers’ Day, since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, 1994 set the day aside to recognise and appreciate the important role teachers play in the transformation of humanity and society.
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