•IGP Kayode Egbetokun Some Nigeria Police school staffers, who are on extended service following the federal government’s decision to increase the retirement age for teachers from 60 to 65, are expressing frustration over the authorities’ refusal to pay their salaries for 33 months. During separate telephone interviews on Sunday, the aggrieved...
•The arrested school teacher, Stella Nwadigo (right) Yesterday, Wednesday, January 8, 2025, a viral video of a teacher maltreating a 3-year-old pupil, Abayomi Micheal, sparked online conversations about the safety of pupils in public and private schools in Nigeria. In the video, the teacher, identified as Stella Nwadigo, a staff member of Chri...
•A classroom Teachers in Katsina State have decried poor attendance of pupils as schools resume today across the 34 LGAs of the state. Although, current economic hardship might be termed as one of the major factors responsible for this, parents and caregivers, are encouraged to take education very seriously to groom better leaders of tomorrow,...
An Oredo Chief Magistrate Court in Benin, Edo State has sentenced the proprietor of Calvary Crown Academy, Paul Okugbowa, and three teachers to prison for negligence and insulting a parent. The presiding Magistrate, Caroline Oghuma, in the judgment delivered today, sentenced Okugbowa to six months imprisonment with an option of N100,000 fine f...
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has urged states not yet paying the N70,000 minimum wage to start without further delay. The union also asked states implementing the new wage to let it reach all categories of teachers, reports The Nation. NUT President Audu Amba said this yesterday in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, while […]
•Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun The Ogun State Government is set to recruit another batch of 1,000 teachers to fill existing vacancies in public schools in the state. The exercise is being coordinated by the State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, in conjunction with the State Teaching Service Commission, the State Universal Ba...
•Wike Following the ongoing strike by primary school teachers over the non-payment of 25-month minimum wage arrears and other entitlements, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has invited the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) for a meeting. A source who is a member of the State Wing Executive Committee...
•FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, today threatened to divert the 10 percent Internally Generated Revenue accrued to the FCT area councils to pay the striking primary school teachers in the territory. Wike, who was responding to questions from journalists on the ongoing strike by the teachers, de...
•Governor Seyi makinde The Oyo State Government, today, placed a ban on any form of meeting by Head teachers or teachers, during school hours, within or outside any public school premises in the state, saying whoever indulges in such an act will be severely dealt with. The Chairman of the state Universal Basic Education Board, […]
•School children The Parents Teachers Association and the Nigeria Union of Teachers have expressed fear of a possible increase in the rate of school dropout in the country due to the rising cost of bus fares across the country. They also warned that teachers might miss classes on days when they are unable to afford […]
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