The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) has demanded that the
federal government in Nigeria pay teachers’ salaries in order to maintain their
employment in financially strapped states in Nigeria. This demand has been made
towards a response to a statement made by Professor Mohammed Ibn Junaid,
stating that Nigeria needs over 1.3 million teachers to meet the demands in
basic education by 2015. The attempt to close this gap the “Federal Teacher
Scheme” (FTS), recruited 1,000 teachers for each of the 36 states of the
federation, paying them monthly allowance. These teachers only received two-year
contracts, and then became unemployed, as the individual states could not
afford to pay them. The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) desires to monitor
teachers’ availability in schools. The
government and relevant agencies have to guarantee that they will fill all
existing teacher gaps in the educational systems to offer an effective service
delivery in public schools.
This is an important issue to resolve because the children
in Nigeria are suffering from the teacher gap. They are not receiving the
quality education that most other countries are getting and it will push them
behind academically. Most of these children and families are sending themselves
to school to reach goals, such as getting a job to provide a better income and
to get they to reach social stratification. Keeping these children from having
an education is going to leave them where they are now and hold them back from
reaching their goals. The government inability
to pay these teachers is causing these issues towards the children.
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