Teachers in Adamawa have joined their counterparts across the globe to celebrate World Teachers Day without fanfare of usual match pass and parades due to COVID-19.
The day is set aside by the United Nations to serve as a platform for teachers to x-ray their problems and achievements in the preceding year.
In Adamawa State, primary school teachers have lamented for staying 15 years in service without promotion, Minimum Wage, upgrading, Leave Transport Grant, and yearly increment.
The State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers Comrade Rodney Nathan while delivering his speech to commemorate the day with the theme Teachers Leading in Crisis, Reimaging the future, called on the state government to look into the plight of primary school teachers being the foundation of education, stressing that lack of attending to the welfare of teachers has demoralized them.
“We want to use this day to call on his Excellency, he had started a good record let him finish the good record by ensuring that teachers in primary schools are promoted, teachers in primary schools are upgraded, teachers in primary schools have been paid their Leave Transport Grant and teachers in primary schools enjoyed N30,000,00 minimum wage.
“Whatever product we are given to Secondary Schools, if we don’t do it well, the Secondary School teachers we have problems, if the Secondary School teachers have problems, the University will equally have a problem, let the foundation be solid and strong and it can only be solid and strong if teachers in the Primary School teachers are well catered for”. He added.
Nathan however appreciated Governor Fintiri for granting approval of additional five years of retirement to Science and English teachers in both primary and secondary schools, stressing that the gesture cannot be forgotten in the teaching profession.
In her remark, the State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development Mrs. Wulbina Jackson stated that the government is working hard to ensure a conducive working environment for teachers, pupils, and students.
She said a memo regarding teachers’ welfare if before Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri and the government has so far paid Seven hundred million nairas (N700m) for students writing NECO and WAEC examinations.
There were goodwill messages, from Executive Secretary Post Primary Schools Management Board, Executive Chairman Adamawa State Universal Basic Education Board, and State Chairman Nigeria Labour Congress among others.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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Mohammed musa
April 4, 2022 at 3:57 pm
I am interested sir please