×
  • News - South South - Cross River
  • Updated: August 15, 2022

NUT Laments Delayed Recruitment Of Teachers In Cross River

NUT Laments Delayed Recruitment Of Teachers In Cross River

The National President of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Audu Titus Amba has lamented the lack of recruitment of teachers by a large number of primary and secondary schools for 20 years with the increasing rate of retirement among teachers.

Speaking at the commissioning of buses for the NUT Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society transport scheme, the president expressed fear that many schools in the state will in no time be left without teachers.

“If you take statistics, you’ll see that a good number of schools in Nigeria have not recruited teachers for the past twenty years. That’s the situation we have found ourselves.

“It will interest you to know that a good number of state governments are not recruiting teachers to commensurate with the ones that are retiring.

“When teachers are retiring and there is no commensurate recruitment or replacement then the school system will be left without teachers in our school," he explained.

Amba, however, appreciated the federal government for meeting the demands of primary and secondary school teachers, including the increments in the service year of teachers, among others.

“We are proud as Nigerian teachers to identify with the leadership of this country. As far as we are concerned as Primary and Secondary School teachers, we’ve gotten what we want from the President of this country and those things are not only increments in the service year of teachers but there are many other goodies like the years of retirement for teachers from 60 to 65 years and from 35 years to 40 years for service, issue of special salary, special allowances, loans, scholarships that are enshrined in those very approvals that the president has graciously given to Nigerian teachers.

“So we’re most grateful to him. He has done his part. we are now waiting for the Gazette to be out so that it will now become a working document for all the tiers of governments,” Amba said.

In his remarks, the Chairman of NUT in Cross River State, Gregory Olayi expressed discontent at the conditions of teachers in the state, lamenting the irregular payment of teachers' salaries.

As a union, we’ve been going through a lot of stress to attend one function or the other. We were opportuned to come together to form a Cooperative. I was motivated to say to them let us use this to purchase vehicles to move our members from one place to another so that the money we used in hiring vehicles will still come back to us and our members will not suffer much any further," he explained.

Related Topics

Join our Telegram platform to get news update Join Now

0 Comment(s)

See this post in...

Notice

We have selected third parties to use cookies for technical purposes as specified in the Cookie Policy. Use the “Accept All” button to consent or “Customize” button to set your cookie tracking settings