Kaduna Announces 32.5% Salary Increase For Teachers

The Kaduna State Government on Thursday said it has increased the salary of public school teachers by 32.5 per cent.

The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Ja’afaru Sani, said at a news conference in Kaduna that 27.5 per cent would be added to all the teachers, while five per cent was incentive for teachers posted rural areas.

According to Sani, while head teachers would be entitled to three-bedroom accommodation, other teachers would have two-bedrooms flats in addition to motorcycles to ease their transportation challenges to schools.

According to him, the measure becomes necessary to retain qualified and professional teachers posted to rural areas.

Sani said: “Currently, we have more teachers in urban areas than we have in rural areas because the salary package is the same and so whenever teachers are posted to rural schools they redeploy to urban centres.’’

Sani said the State Universal Basic Education Board would post the first batch of 10,000 newly recruited teachers to primary schools within the next two weeks.

He assured of the state government resolved to ensure quality and standard in teaching and learning in schools across the state.

He said: “The El-Rufa’i led-administration strongly believes that only access to affordable and quality education will ensure social mobility for children of the poor.

“Only quality education will equip them with the needed skills to be creative, inventive and be part of the social movement towards development and self-fulfilment.”