Primary, secondary, and university lecturers should receive pay raises, according to the House of Representatives Committee on University Education.
Abubakar Fulata, the committee’s chairman, made the decision on Thursday.
He recommended monthly salaries for primary, secondary, and university teachers of N250,000, N500,000, and N1,000,000, respectively.
On Thursday, Fulata gave a speech in Abuja at a one-day national stakeholder workshop on the creation of a roadmap for the Nigerian education sector (2023–2027).
According to Fulata, it’s critical to reward Nigerian teachers by paying them fairly.
In order to keep up with the rest of the world, he also emphasized the importance of translating all topic texts into local tongues.
He asserts that previous governments’ attempts to solve issues in the education sector did not have the desired impact.
“It is a thing of concern that for decades, several efforts on policies made by successive governments to resuscitate and improve the education sector and those efforts have continued to create very little progress.
“All over the world, the subject of the language of instruction has always been the 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 the 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 textbooks 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 earn less than N1 million 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.