Nigeria: ' Don't Blame Teachers for Falling Standards'

8 November 2005

Lagos — A two-day Summit on Policy Reforms and Social Dialogue between government agencies and the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) was held from October 26 to 27 in Abuja. NUT President, Mallam Abdulwaheed Omar, spoke to Juliana Taiwo on a number of pressing issues

In a seven-point communiqué issued at the conclusion of the recent two-day summit on Policy Reforms and Social Dialogue between government agencies and the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), the government was called upon to equip the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRNC) with the necessary tools for professionalisation. This is with a view to eliminating quacks from the teaching profession at all the levels of formal school education. "We also called on government to actualise the Teachers Salary Scale (TSS)," the NUT President Mallam Abdulwaheed Omar revealed in an interview.

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