Kwara NUT decries four months' salary arrears

Date: 2017-07-15

The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers in Kwara State, Alhaji Musa Abubakar, on Friday said that primary and junior secondary school teachers in the state were being owed a total of four months’ salary arrears in varying degrees of percentages.

Abubakar, who spoke on the sidelines of the 6th quadrennial conference of delegates of the state NUT, titled: ‘Funding of education in a depressed economy: which way forward,’ stated that payment of teachers under the management of the Universal Primary Education Board had become a thing of concern to all lovers of education.

He claimed that 1,302 teachers who had problems with their biometric verification numbers were being owed 75 per cent of their June 2016 salary.

According to him, immediately after the 2015 general elections, primary school teachers had begun receiving salaries on prorate basis or in percentages.

Abubakar said, “This abysmal situation has raised a lot of fundamental issues and led to hardship for the teachers. Despite the intervention of the Federal Government using bailout and Paris Club refund, the problems still persist.”

He, however, called on the Kwara State Government to urgently look into the plight of the affected teachers as the sufferings they were experiencing had become unbearable.

Meanwhile, a lecturer at the University of Texas, Prof. Toyin Falola, has identified timely payment of teachers’ salaries as one of the measures required to boost educational growth, national development and productivity.

Speaking during the first 2017 lecture series of the Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Falola said education must become a priority if the country must leverage on its internal capacities and compete globally.

Falola said, “We have to train and use high-quality teachers and provide incentives to those who perform well. Uncertified teachers must be phased out, as some of them are part of the problem. The good ones must not be over-burdened.”

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Abraham Ojo     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Vasolar     Jebba     Peter Obi     Maigidasanma     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Saliu Alamoyo     Amusement Park     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Kumbi Titiloye     YAKOOYO     Riskat Opakunle     Oniwasi Agbaye     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Amos Justus Sayo     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     QuickWin     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Saliu Ajia     Woro     ASKOMP     Amuda Musbau     Yakubu Dogara     Hajj     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Shuaib Jawondo     Salihu Ajia     Tayo Awodiji     Kamoru Kadiri     SWAN     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Moji Makanjuola     Anilelerin     Gobir     Fulani     ASMAU PLAZA     Oba Abu     George Funsho Adebayo     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Segun Ogunsola     Dan Masanin     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Sulu Gambari     Suleman Abubakar     Gani Saadu     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Shehu Adaramaja     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Ahmed     Jide Oyinloye     Olatunji Ayeni     Paul Odama     Oye Tinuoye     Shagari     Atiku Abubakar     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Awodun     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Ndakene     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Sa\'adu Salahu     COVID-19 Palliatives     Jide Ashonibare    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Pakata     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Neo Mundo Ltd     Kemi Adeosun     Olatunde Olukoya     Hamid Bobboyi     SWAN     Idiagbon     Pilgrims Board     Yahaya Dumoye     Okanlawon Musa     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Suwa-Arabs     NIPOGA     Offa     Abubakar Baba     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Shehu Adaramaja     Tope Daramola     Olaitan Buraimoh     Kunle Akogun     Kisra     FERMA     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Makama Of Ilorin     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Kwara South     Saka Saadu     Halimat Yusuf     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     John Kehinde Salako     Olofa Of Offa     Albert Ogunsola     Ramadan     Toyin Sanusi     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Bibire Ajape     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Ajeigbe     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Baboko Primary School     A.O. Belgore     Balogun Fulani     KwaraLearn     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Congress For National Consensus     Kale Bayero     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Otoge     Okasanmi Ajayi     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Pakata Development Association     Ojuekun Sarumi     Isiaka Oniwa     Unicontinental Construction Company     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Bahago     Ita-Nmo Market     Adamu Attah     Yusuf A. Usman     RTEAN     Sobi     Turaki     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Patigi Regatta     Oko-Olowo     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Oniwa     Sobi FM