President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday 5th of October, 2020 approved a special salary scale for teachers in the county.
This was announced by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who represented the president during the 2020 World Teachers Day celebration.
The theme of celebration ”Teachers: Leading in Crisis Re-imagining the Future” captures the resilience of Teachers and school administrators globally amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Buhari instructed the ministry to facilitate the implementation of the new teachers salary scheme, saying this would encourage the teachers in delivering better service.
According to him, teachers have the power to shape and reshape the lives of young people and help learners to enhance their potentials.
”Only great teachers can produce excellent people and students that will make the future of our country great. A positive or negative influence of teacher on any child will have effect on that child. Therefore the federal government is ensuring quality education to access
”My administration has resolved that quality education of teachers in terms of engagement of continued professional development has to be given priority.
”The future of this country will be a function of quality education delivered to our children today and this depend on the quality of our teachers and the quality of our teachers depend on the motivation and their motivation depends on how happy they are doing what they are doing.
”To address these challenges, my administration has approved the following for teachers and the teaching profession. That in order to attract investment in the teaching profession, the quality of the introduction of bursary award has been restored.
“There will be a special pension scheme to enable the teaching profession retain its experience talent as well as extend teachers retirement age to 65 years and the duration of teachers years to 40 years.
”And that is to create a career path policy for the teaching profession in Nigeria and gives speedy teachers to programme and ICT training.”
Adama also announced that the President has also increased the years of service for teachers from 35 to 40 years.
According to him, the implementation of the new salary scheme is to encourage teachers to deliver better services.
