Adamu Adamu, minister for
education, says the ministry is working with the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) to make provisions for a free data plan of at least 1 gigabyte
for public school teachers.
Adamu spoke at the 2019 World
Teachers Day celebration which held at the weekend in Abuja.
The minister, who was represented
by Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, minister of state for education, said the move is
aimed at enabling the teachers in public schools across the country to surf the
web and obtain educational materials for teaching.
He also said the government is
working to put in place a life insurance policy for public school teachers
which would see that families of all insured teachers be given the benefits due
to them upon the death of the holder.
“Government would pay N1 million
as premium for male teachers, N1.2 million for female teachers. Science
teachers would be insured with N1.5 million,” the minister said.
Abubakar Malami, attorney-general
of the federation (AGF), while speaking at the event, reiterated the need to
attract and keep the brightest minds in the teaching profession by way of
making favourable policies that would provide allowances and other benefits.
“Inclusive education is
achievable through accepting, understanding and attending to student
differences and diversities which include among others physical, cognitive,
academic, social and emotional differences,” he ssaid.
“The federal government shall
collaborate with state governments with a view to providing incentives to
teachers, especially in the rural areas with a view to encouraging young talents
to the teaching profession.”
The 2019 Teachers Day
celebration, themed ‘Young Teachers: The Future of the Profession’, witnessed
the conferment of 24 awards on different beneficiaries — including Godwin
Obaseki, Edo state governor, who won the ‘Most Education-Friendly Governor’.
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