Teachers in Nigeria, yesterday joined their counterparts in other parts of the world to mark the World Teachers Day, and made several demands from government on welfare and other conditions of service aimed at improving the standard of the teaching profession in the country.
Speaking at the occasion, President of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, Michael Alogba-Olukoya, said it was criminal for any employer of labour not to pay its workers, urging state governments not to divert the bailouts offered them by the Federal Government but to use same to pay workers owed.
He said: “Apart from the fact that non-payment of the monthly salaries to hardworking workers is a criminal offence, it is also inhuman for any employer of labour to deny workers their monthly wages,” even as he expressed concern about the discrimination in the placement of terminal salary grade levels of graduate teachers in primary and secondary schools in various states.
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The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Idiat Adebule, who represented Governor Akinwumi Ambode, at the annual event at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, pledged that the state government would build on the legacies of its predecessors.
According to her, “Remuneration and career structure based on qualification, places the terminal grade level of university graduates who teach in primary schools on grade level 17, the same set of graduates who teach in primary schools terminate on grade level 14 and their secondary school counterparts terminate on 15 or 16 in many states of the federation.
State chairman of NUT, Raheem Adesegun, stressed the need for the teachers to be motivated, compensated and empowered to perform and deliver on their mandates, while calling for an an upward review of classroom teachers salary grade levels.
He said: “Teachers are in the centre of the educational configuration but they are denied, deprived and depressed. To redress the situation, teachers must attract a genuine professional status and be paid a special salary scale to address their social and financial short-change and disenfranchisement.”
Speaking at the occasion, President of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, Michael Alogba-Olukoya, said it was criminal for any employer of labour not to pay its workers, urging state governments not to divert the bailouts offered them by the Federal Government but to use same to pay workers owed.
He said: “Apart from the fact that non-payment of the monthly salaries to hardworking workers is a criminal offence, it is also inhuman for any employer of labour to deny workers their monthly wages,” even as he expressed concern about the discrimination in the placement of terminal salary grade levels of graduate teachers in primary and secondary schools in various states.
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Lagos
The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Idiat Adebule, who represented Governor Akinwumi Ambode, at the annual event at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, pledged that the state government would build on the legacies of its predecessors.
According to her, “Remuneration and career structure based on qualification, places the terminal grade level of university graduates who teach in primary schools on grade level 17, the same set of graduates who teach in primary schools terminate on grade level 14 and their secondary school counterparts terminate on 15 or 16 in many states of the federation.
State chairman of NUT, Raheem Adesegun, stressed the need for the teachers to be motivated, compensated and empowered to perform and deliver on their mandates, while calling for an an upward review of classroom teachers salary grade levels.
He said: “Teachers are in the centre of the educational configuration but they are denied, deprived and depressed. To redress the situation, teachers must attract a genuine professional status and be paid a special salary scale to address their social and financial short-change and disenfranchisement.”
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