Tag: Nigeria Union of Teachers

El-Rufa’i sacks 2,357 teachers, NUT President, over competency test

Aminu Imam

The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (KADSUBEB), says it has dismissed 2,357 teachers who failed the recently conducted competency test. Its spokesperson, Mrs. Hauwa Mohammed, in an issued press statement yesterday in Kaduna, said the Board conducted a competency test for over 30,000 teachers in Dec. 2021. She explained that 2,192 primary school teachers, including the National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Audu Amba, had been dismissed for refusing to sit for the competency test. She said that some 165 of the 27,662 teachers that sat…

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“We wont write another competency test”, Kaduna teachers dare el-Rufa’i

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT), Kaduna chapter, says no teacher in public primary school in the state will sit for the competency test being organised by the government. According to the union, funds meant for the exercise should be channeled to training and re-training of teachers. Recall that the state government had in January 2018, sacked about 22,000 teachers for failing a competency test conducted in 2017. The union, in a communique it issued at the end of an emergency meeting of its Executive Council, which held in Kaduna on…

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FEC approves new retirement age for teachers

Aminu Imam
Minister of Education Adamu-Adamu

The Federal Executive Council, (FEC), yesterday approved a Bill extending the retirement age for teachers in Nigeria from 60 years to 65 years. The FEC, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, approved the Bill, titled: “Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers Bill, 2021” and sent to the National Assembly for its consideration and approval. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, made this known to State House correspondents after the meeting. If the Bill is approved by the National Assembly, the retirement age of teachers will move from 60 years to 65,…

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Teachers threaten to stop work over abduction of students, teachers in schools

Aminu Imam

The national leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT), has said it is highly disturbed by the re-emerging incidence of school invasion and abduction of teachers and students across the countrys educational institutions, threatening to down tools if decisive actions are not taken to address the trend. The NUT Secretary-General, Dr. Mike Ike Ene, while reacting to the invasion of Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, by armed men in a statement on Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to ensure safe release of the students and…

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