President Muhammad Buhari says the federal government is ready to engage more qualified teachers to increase the teacher to pupil ratio in the country.
Buhari stated this in Abuja, the nation’s capital on Tuesday when he received the leadership of the Nigeria union of teachers, nut at the presidential villa.
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The president acknowledged that Nigeria has a deficit of teachers, which his administration is addressing through the n-power teach volunteers scheme under the national social investment programme, NSIP.
He described the teaching profession as one of the most noble, noting that teachers have been at the forefront of cultivating young minds to be innovative and inventive.
In his remark, the nut president, Idris Nasir commended the Buhari administration’s giant strides in the education sector and appealed to the president to give a presidential assent to the bill on teachers retirement age and the teachers special salary structure, TSSS among others.
The nut leadership also praised the president on the proposed establishment of six federal colleges of education across the geo-political zones of the country
