According to report reaching oyogist.com, the Nigerian federal government has reportedly inaugurated a national implementation committee on the repositioning of the teaching profession in Nigeria.
This was made known by the minister of education, Mallam Adamu Adamu who stated that the committee inauguration would kick start the process of implementing the newly formulated policies of by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).
The minister also made it known that the policy was aimed at attracting the best brains into the teaching profession in order to encourage teachers delivery so as to produce students with standard education and also a way of boosting national development in the country.
It should be noted that the federal government’s newly formulated policy includes a special teacher salary scale, harmonized retirement age and teaching service years, special teacher pension scheme, creation of career path policy, enhanced entry points for teachers in civil service and provision of some certain allowances so as to take good care of the teacher’s wellbeing.
