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The funding of primary education by local government governments will affect learning and teaching at the foundational level of education, according to the Nigeria Union of Teachers. The National President of NUT, Mr Michael Olukoya, made the union’s view known at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday. Olukoya said the union was not against local government autonomy but that …

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The Nigeria Union of Teachers, Bayelsa State wing, has suspended its two-week strike with immediate effect. The suspension of the strike followed the state government’s release of N300m to augment payment of primary school teachers in the local government areas of the state. Teachers in the state’s public primary schools had on Monday, May 8, 2017, commenced an indefinite strike …

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Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu Recession now having negative effect on the welfare and performance of teachers- NUT Niger state ‎Olabode‎ Adaramola The Nigeria Union of Teachers on Wednesday declared that the economic recession in the country is now having negative effect on the welfare and performance of Teachers in Niger state. The state chairman of the NUT, Comrade Ibrahim …

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More than Half of Nigeria’s Primary, Secondary Schools’ Teachers are “Accidental Teachers’’ – NGO Sixty-eight per cent of primary and secondary school teachers in Nigeria are “accidental teachers’’,  the Centre for Learning and Educational Development Advocacy Africa (CLEDA-Africa) has said. According to the Non-Governmental agency’s Executive Director, Mr Daniels Akpan who made this remarks in Kaduna on Wednesday, he noted …

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