The long-held belief in Nigerian society that our hard-working but hard-pressed teachers will only get their reward in heaven was hopefully upturned last week when President Muhammadu Buhari approved a mouth-watering package for teachers. The package was announced on Monday last week during the celebration of World Teachers’ Day 2020.

Education Minister Adamu Adamu, who represented Buhari at the occasion, said the package includes a special salary scale for basic and secondary school teachers as well as rural posting allowance, science teachers allowance and peculiar allowance. Teachers’ retirement age was reviewed upwards to 65 years instead of 60 in the civil service and 40 years of service before compulsory retirement was approved instead of 35. Buhari also approved a special pension scheme “to enable the teaching profession to retain its experience and talents.”

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