The NUT said the new teachers’ retirement age from 60 to 65 years and 35 to 40 years of service had attained 90 per cent implementation, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Tuesday appealed to state governors owing teachers’ salary arrears to use their remaining months in office to pay off the arrears.
The NUT said the new teachers’ retirement age from 60 to 65 years and 35 to 40 years of service had attained 90 per cent implementation, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The NUT Secretary-General, Dr Mike Ike-Ene, who made appeal in an interview on Tuesday, in Abuja ahead of today's World Teachers’ Day, said this year's celebration had “Teachers at the heart of education recovery” as its theme.
Ike-Ene lamented that many state governors owed primary school teachers and secondary schools months of salary arrears ranging from four to 18 months.
He said “Many of these teachers have lamented over the inability and irregularities of the state to pay their salaries as and when due following the current economic situation in the country.
“Some state governments owe primary school teachers a backlog of salaries ranging from four to 18 months.”
He, however, commended state governors who had been committed to paying teachers’ salaries as and when due.
On the new salary scale for teachers, the secretary general said the union and the Federal Government were still working towards its implementation.
Ike-Ene said the new teachers’ retirement age from 60 to 65 years and 35 to 40 years of service had attained 90 per cent implementation.