28 states haven’t employed teachers since 2015 –NUT
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The Nigeria Union of Teachers on Monday disclosed that about 28states have failed to recruit primary school teachers, adding that only eight states employed primary school teachers since 2015.
Speaking to newsmen, the union’s National Publicity Secretary, Audu Amba, said apart from Gombe, Kaduna, Imo, Katsina, Kano, Lagos, Plateau and Sokoto states, other 28 states had not employed teachers in the last four years.
This, he said, had been affecting the quality of public primary education in the country.
He also said only 11 states namely Akwa Ibom, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Kaduna, Lagos, Plateau, Sokoto, Katsina, Yobe and the Federal Capital Territory had recruited secondary school teachers in the last four years.
Besides the non-recruitment of teachers, the NUT national publicity secretary said Abia State owed primary school teachers, five months’ salaries, while their counterparts in secondary schools were being owed 10 months’ salaries.
Amba said Benue State had not paid primary school teachers’ salaries in the last 10 months.
According to him, Kogi State owes teachers between 10 and 25 months’ salaries. He, however, explained that the amount being owed the workers was in percentage.
Amba said, “There is a global standard that a class should not have more 25 pupils per teacher. We can count the number of states that have recruited teachers. There are states that have not recruited teachers in the last three years. Meanwhile, teachers are retiring constantly with no commensurate replacement. When planning is not properly done, there will be problems.
“There is no state in this country that is not having an acute shortage of teachers in line with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s standard of 25 pupils per teacher. There are situations where a teacher handles as many as 100 pupils, that is grossly not ideal. Until the government begins to have a long term plan to fill the vacuum that the retired teachers have created, we will continue to lack teachers. All the states, including the FCT, do not have adequate teachers in their schools.”
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