The House of Representatives Committee on University
Education has called for salary increment for primary, secondary and university
teachers.
Abubakar Fulata, Chairman of the committee, made the call on
Thursday.
He proposed N250,000, N500,000 and N1 million monthly
salary, respectively, for primary, secondary and university teachers.
Fulata spoke at a One-Day National Stakeholders’ Workshop on
the Development of a Roadmap for the Nigerian Education Sector (2023-2027), in
Abuja, on Thursday.
Fulata said that it is important to encourage Nigerian
teachers by paying them adequately.
He also stressed the need to translate all subject textbooks
into local languages so as to catch up with the world.
According to him, efforts by past administrations to address
challenges in the education sector did not yield the desired results.
“It is a thing of concern that from decades, several efforts
on policies made by successive government to resuscitate and improve the
education sector and those efforts have continued to create very little
progress.
“All over the world, the subject of language of instruction
has always been local language of those countries.
“If you go to the UK, education is taught in English, if you
go to France, education from the basic level up to the tertiary level is taught
in French.
“It is in Nigeria that you teach language of instruction in
English. Our problem has always been that we are teaching our children subjects
they ought to have been taught in their local language.
“All Mathematical, Physics, Chemistry textbook and what have
you should be in our local languages. There is no way we can catch up with the
world if we continue teaching our children in a foreign language.
“No primary school teacher should earn less than N250,000 in
a month, no secondary school teacher should earn less than N500,000 and no
university teacher should warn less than 1million in a month.
“The nation must declare a state of emergency in education.
We must commit at least 25 per cent to 30 per cent of our national budget to
education.
“It is high time we pay them adequately so that they can
teach our children,” he said.
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