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.

Moremi High School     Forgo Battery     Bashirat Bola Bello     Muhammadu Buhari     Amusement Park     Ahmed     KWASIEC     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     CLAY POT     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Ahmad Ali     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Salman Jawondo     Issa Manzuma     Oloje     Law School Scholarship     Kawu Baraje     United Nigeria Congress Party     Umar Ayinla Saro     Communication Network Support Services     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Lanre Issa Onilu     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Eleyele     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Saad Omo Iya     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Lithium Deposit     Salaudeen Oyewale     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     AbdulHamid Adi     Bashiru Makama     Olokoba     Lucky Omoluwa     Magaji Are     Saheed Popoola     Nigerian Correctional Service     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Samuel Adaramola     Adisa Logun     KWASSIP     Tosin Saraki     Lawan     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Share     Ibrahim Abiodun     Pakata Patriots     Code Of Conduct Bureau     James Kolo     Okin Biscuits     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Funmilayo Oniwa     Students Union Government     Elerinjare     Salami Adekunle     Awodun     20 Billion Bond     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Basit Olatunji     Shola Odetundun     Jimoh Akani     Olatunde Olukoya     Oke-opin     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Pacify Labs     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Ahmed Alhasssan     Aliyu Muhammed     Ayo Salami    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Segun Ogunsola     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     JAMB     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Gobir     Amusement Park     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Bolakale Saka     Bankole Omisore     Kola Adesina     Modibo Kawu     Olupako Of Share     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Aisha Gobir     Oke-Ero     UITH     Saad Omo\'ya     Lithium     Senate Presidency     Alabi Lawal     Bayo Lawal     Kola Ologbondiyan     Ilorin East     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Ibrahim Oniye     Kumbi Titiloye     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Kwara Apc     Tuesday Assayomo     Okanlawon Musa     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Sarkin Malamai     Ilorin South     Ayinde Oki     Olushola Saraki     Ayinke Saka     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Garment Factory     CBT     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Jide Ashonibare     Adeola Abraham     SARS     Maryam A. Garuba     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Olatunji Bamgbola     Kannike     Maigidasanma     Ibrahim Taiwo     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Igosun     College Of Education     Ilorin Metro Park     Sanitation Exercise     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Wahab Egbewole     Abubakar Lah     Zulu Gambari     Iponrin     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Funmi Salau     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Harmony Holdings     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Ilofa     Dorcas Afeniforo     Akeem Lawal     KWASAA     Rachael Obisesan     07039448763     Kwara Metro Park     Esinrogunjo     Matthew Okedare     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Garba Ayodele Wahab