Reps want primary teachers to earn N250,000 salary, secondary N500,000, lecturers N1m monthly
HAbubakar Fulata, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on University Education has called for salary increment for primary, secondary and university teachers.
The chairman said the teachers should earn N250,000, N500,000 and N1 million respectively as monthly renumeration.
Mr Fulata was speaking at a One-Day National Stakeholders’ Workshop on the Development of a Roadmap for the Nigerian Education Sector (2023-2027), in Abuja on Thursday.
Fulata said that it is important for Nigerian teachers to be more encouraged by paying them adequately to teach the children.
He also stressed the need to translate all subject textbooks into local languages so as to catch up with the world.
According to him, efforts have been made by past administrations as regards the country’s education but those efforts had not yielded the desired results.
“It is a thing of concern that from decades, several efforts on policies made by successive government to resuscitate and improve the education sector and those efforts have continued to create very little progress.
“All over the world, the subject of language of instruction has always been local language of those countries. If you go to the UK, education is taught in English, if you go to France, education from the basic level up to the tertiary level is taught in French.
“It is in Nigeria that you teach language of instruction in English. Our problem has always been that we are teaching our children subjects they ought to have been taught in their local language.
“All Mathematical, Physics, Chemistry textbook and what have you should be in our local languages. There is no way we can catch up with the world if we continue teaching our children in a foreign language.
“No primary school teacher should earn less than N250,000 in a month, no secondary school teacher should earn less than N500,000 and no university teacher should warn less than 1million in a month.
“The nation must declare a state of emergency in education. We must commit at least 25 per cent to 30 per cent of our national budget to education.
“It is high time we pay them adequately so that them can teach our children,” he said.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, said that the ministry has great policies on papers but they are not meeting the needs of the people.
Mr Mamman explained that the country’s education does not translate to the needs of the society, hence the need to critically have a roadmap that would translate to development.
He added that those roadmaps must however be implemented within the shortest timeline.
“President Bola Tinubu has charged the ministry to do all it can to reposition the sector.
”We have problems that has been militating the visions, missions and objectives on ground. We have great and fantastic policies but the issue is that our people are not seeing our problems addressed.
“We have institutions churning out graduates who are not employable and we cannot go on like this forever.
“So, in line with our President’s mandate, we must have a roadmap to guide the implementation of how to take the sector forward.
”The idea of the conference is to have a whole lot of time for implementation of our policies,” he said.
He charged participants to work within limited time so that Nigerians could begin to feel the impacts of the policies made within the timelines.
He pledged to engage state governments on the ministry’s crusade to move the sector forward.
In the same vein, the Minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Sununu, emphasised the need to recognise gender mainstreaming in the roadmap so that Nigeria will have the benefit of a balanced education system.
“Education, you would all agree is one sector of development that Nigerians have been known to speak with one voice in terms of its importance to development.
“However, this recognition of its importance is yet to translate to tangible results that show that an educated person stands a better chance of living a fulfilled life.
“This disconnect, between purpose and reality, could be said to be responsible for inadequate attention to the sector, wrong perceptions of the relative importance of the different forms and types of education.
“Indeed, I must also say that the inability of our youths to gain employment after going through the rigors of academic may be responsible for a gradually building dis-interest in the pursuit of education,” he said.
Mr Sununu, however, said this trend must be curtailed to make Nigerian education responsive to every day realities and beneficial to the individual as well as the nation.
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33 COMMENTS
Nura Aminu umar October 19, 2023 At 8:13 pm
To improve my education
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On the Winning side October 20, 2023 At 12:04 am
Is it because we’re angry with their SUV acquisition?
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Abubakar Garba October 20, 2023 At 3:51 am
Any country that achieve their goals in Education they’re usually used the mother tongue, even when we observe the Chinese they are using their first language in teaching learning process not second language.
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TAI October 20, 2023 At 5:37 am
Teachers are not the only ones working for the sustenance of Nigeria. All workers are vital. Let there be good pay for everyone but first, let us bake the cake. Revenue is the problem and corruption. As for translating books to local languages, I don’t see the relevance. It is a myth about local languages. We should stop making excuses. There is nothing wrong with English
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Mbdawaki October 21, 2023 At 11:53 am
I concur with you on this. English is a global language & our national language too. Teaching with our native languages will discourage students from learning English & will therefore be confined to work in few places on earth where such local dialects are understood.
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Adeyemi Gabriel October 20, 2023 At 6:31 am
I want to suggest if the federal government can direct all our 36 state governors to empower all public secondary school students on Agriculture.
All of these students should embark on Agriculture i.e, rearing of animals and planting crops. Because, we have a lot of abandoned land in our areas which have become hiding jungles for the hoodlums.
Starting from Higher Basic Class (Jss3 – Ss3). Our govt should empower them, provide working implement for them with all the govt owned abandoned land. Ask the students to plant and monitor it after which they have done necessary things on it. Every harvest should be exported and imported by govt. And token should be given to the those students that work on the farm. Let us look into this suggestions, as I have a lot to say on it.
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Ativie, C A. October 20, 2023 At 5:26 pm
Well said, my brother. Thank you for this great contribution.
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Mustapha Ahmad October 20, 2023 At 12:20 pm
To assistant Nigerian citizens and the give 25000 as a active the one handrat million poverty in Nigeria
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Seamandela October 20, 2023 At 1:46 pm
Story , are they done satisfying there accounts and family. They can never approve it unless there’s hidden profit and benefits into there own accounts.
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Seamandela October 20, 2023 At 2:54 pm
Yes, improving the education sector will help all others sectors to develop,so is left to the government either they want to make the country developed or not.
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Soloebeh October 20, 2023 At 4:22 pm
Too many irrelevant talks without action. Nigeria is a multitirbal entity. Translating books to local languages will be a huge task and a waste of resources. If we do maybe with the 3 major tribes, minor tribes will still srugle with learning as well. Let English remain. Let better pay be sort after.
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Laide October 21, 2023 At 5:36 am
Supported, English language still remains our official language it is the language that binds all the multi tribes with their different local languages in Nigeria together.
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Ipaa. Barry October 21, 2023 At 5:37 pm
It is a nice idea , but with several challenges with the overall 200 languages in the country.
Secondly our languages has its limitations, local language can only interprete three colours, white, black, and red, while we have over 30 colors. Also how do you interprete the likes of quadrillion, zillions etc. What name will your language give to
scientific notations like , alpha, beta, gamma , tito, or subscripts and superscript?
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Mac Tony October 21, 2023 At 2:44 pm
The suggestion about raising the teachers salary is a superb opinion.
Teachers are the beginning and the end of the development of human resources;which is needed to improve in any other sectors of human endeavors.
Pls, let the teachers be payed very well, and whatch the positive impact in the country within the shortest time.
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Abdulkarim Hashim October 20, 2023 At 4:38 pm
If really Federal Government will implement this salary increament from Primary to University level as the above mentioned amount and use our mother language in teaching at the various levels of our schools surely our education sector will be one of the best in the world
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Jamiu Muibi October 20, 2023 At 5:05 pm
It is not about increasing the salary but the value for the money. One million Naira may amount to nothing if it is valueless. We need to set our priority right.
We can’t remain a consumer country and expect growth.
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Abdulhameed Alliy Babalola October 20, 2023 At 6:21 pm
I am very flattered when I heard about new structure on education both primary/secondary and Tertiary Institution.
I would have been volatile, if this is applicable to the teacher in our education sector in this Country.
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Hassan Abdulhamid Yakasai October 21, 2023 At 2:04 pm
It has been the tradition for our legislators whenever they found themselves in a public function such as this they would be telling stories. If Fulata really and seriously has this in mind, What stops him from presenting a bill on the said issue in the house plenary session?
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Sarah October 20, 2023 At 7:46 pm
Is like you don’t know the kind of work that is in primary school?
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FATAI Omotanwa Amudalat October 20, 2023 At 7:57 pm
Why the salary is different, is not certificate that will judge the payment, is like they did not value primary school teachers for the work they are doing
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Abdulkarim Hashim October 21, 2023 At 12:01 am
If Really federal Government will implement this amount of as salary to teachers at various levels of education and also to implement the policies on using our mother language in our schools, Nigeria education sector could have become one of the best in the world.
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Nick October 21, 2023 At 5:20 pm
Let the truth be told. Northern leaders has long been ruling this nation and they did not find much value in education but in religion and herding. If President Tinubu, a Yoruba, who knows the value of education wins the presidency at last, he can draw a road map for education. Local languages can be applied while explaining subjects but translating them is not ideal at least for now. Increasing salary to that scale is just increasing inflation. Teachers know what they need and have been asking for it. Let government listen to them period
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Ojo Michael October 21, 2023 At 6:29 am
It is achievable only if the Senate and House Rep. will become a Partime System and take sitting and transport allowance. Trillion of Naira will be safe from this.
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Bali S. P. October 21, 2023 At 6:52 am
The primary school teacher are supposed to receive the highest amount because they are the foundation.
It is a nice idea , but with several challenges with the overall 200 languages in the country.
Secondly our languages has its limitations, local language can only interprete three colours, white, black, and red, while we have over 30 colors. Also how do you interprete the likes of quadrillion, zillions etc. What name will your language give to
scientific notations like , alpha, beta, gamma , tito, or subscripts and superscript?
With their N.C. E or B.ED?
This is a great initiative. However, changing the language of instruction is not really necessary. For example, in case of children whose parents are getting transferred as a result of their work, it would pose a problem for the child especially if they’re moving from south to north. Let’s kindly look into these.
If u don’t increase the salary according to the certificate or level, you will see primary school teachers leaving the work for you government to handle. Do u think is easy to teach in primary school. The foundation of education is primary education,why treating the primary school teachers as if they are nothing to you.
David October 21, 2023 At 8:01 am
Mr. Abubakar Garba I think second language itself is part of education, if you have problem with English language you can keep learning it, let me as you a question,
What is sine theta in your language?
What is pi called in your language?
What is alpha and beta in your language?
So you see that the the Chinese is a grown language that has every other words you can imagine, you need to borrow them.
Think about it
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Abubakar October 21, 2023 At 8:33 am
As Sarah said, they don’t or forgot that the backbone of any building is foundation. Primary education is the backbone of any education in the world.
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Olubori Isaac October 21, 2023 At 9:24 am
It’s high time we began shifting focus from things that don’t matter to those that do. The education sector has been downtrodden and dragged in the mud for long. Increasing the teachers remuneration is a great idea but the implementation is the real deal. As for the translation, I sincerely see no reason for it at this point in time because one of the reasons Nigerian artisans and scholars have been outstanding and making us proud in international scenes hinges majorly on the fact that we teach and learn in English.
My suggestion would be that we keep on teaching in English while employing a blended approach- Writing in English but explaining or emphasizing in our dialects just to drive home the points. Kudos and shout outs to all our teachers out there because they’re all doing a superb and amazing job. Let’s keep the lamp burning, the light shining and the ball rolling.
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Mac Tony October 21, 2023 At 2:48 pm
The suggestion about raising the teachers salary is a superb opinion.
Teachers are the beginning and the end of the development of human resources;which is needed to improve in any other sectors of human endeavors.
Pls, let the teachers be payed very well, and whatch the positive impact in the country within the shortest time.
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Dr. Essien Ukpe October 21, 2023 At 4:44 pm
Wonderful vision presented by a House of Representative Committee Chairman. Unfortunately, presenting it to the public would not translate it into a policy. What he should do is to sponsor a bill that will ultimately be passed into a law. Until that is done, he is not sincere. Mere presentation to the public is to garnet an image and a reputation that he is people oriented in order to earn him more votes in the next election from the gullible voters.
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