NUT Appeals To President Tinubu To Implement Approved Welfare Packages For Teachers

Report By News Agency 

The Nigeria Union of Teachers has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to implement welfare packages approved for teachers by his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, since 2020.

The National President of the Union, Comrade Audu Amba, appealed in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja.

Amba said five years after the Federal Government promised to implement a special salary structure and other welfare packages for teachers, the promises had remained unfulfilled.

According to him, the unfulfilled promises are partly responsible for the broader challenges affecting teachers’ morale, productivity, and well-being.

He, then, called on the federal and state governments to ensure full implementation of the approved incentives to boost the morale of teachers in the discharge of their professional duties.

He listed some of the incentives to include payment of Special Salary Scale for teachers in basic and secondary, reintroduction of bursary award to education students in universities and colleges of education.

Others are the Special Teachers Pension Scheme to enable the teaching profession to retain its experienced talents, as well as extended teachers’ retirement age to 65 years, among other incentives.