Kwara teachers seek better welfare
The Kwara State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers has urged the state government to improve teachers’ welfare for better performance.
The union stated that good packages for teachers will enhance sound and quality education for students.
The Union’s caretaker chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Umar Usman, stated this on Wednesday during a courtesy visit to the State Ministry of Education.
Usman, however, commended the current administration on infrastructural development, especially, the rehabilitation and refurbishment of schools across the sixteen local government areas in the state.
He said, “His Excellency, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq led administration has performed wonderfully well on infrastructural development, especially, the comprehensive renovation of seven schools and rehabilitation of more than forty schools cutting across the three Senatorial Districts in the state.
“Also, the recent approved renovation and refurbishment of six hundred schools in the sixteen local government area in the state.”
In response, the state Commissioner for Education, Hajia Sa’adatu Modibbo Kawu appreciated the NUT excos for their unalloyed support to the present administration.
She also reiterated the commitment of the present administration to providing sound and qualitative education in the state.
She said, “Since inception, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s administration has given priority to education development. This can be traced to his landmark achievement within the last two years of governance.
“Also, the Education Summit that has just been concluded has given birth to the approval of the Education Trust Fund. All these were done to revamp the education sector and improve on the standard of education in the state.”
She enjoined them to be dedicated to their duty and also continue to support the government in its bid to take the education sector to greater heights.
Hajia Modibbo promised to intimate Governor AbdulRazaq on the NUT’s request.
