The National
President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT), Comrade Michael Olukoya, on
Monday, October 5, said that the union has lost over 600 of its members to incessant Boko Haram attacks, Daily Trust
reports. Olukoya made the statement during the 2015 World Teachers’ Day
celebration in Ado Ekiti.
According to him,
308 teachers were killed in Borno, 75 in Adamawa, 18 in Yobe, 25 in Kaduna, 120
in Plateau, 63 in Kano and two in Gombe states.
The figure is in
addition to the 19,000 teachers that had been displaced and are suffering great
losses due to the activities of the insurgents, he said.
While calling on
the federal government to beef up security around public schools in the country
in order to prevent further loss of lives, the NUT boss also urged the
government to increase teachers retirement age to 65, to prevent premature
retirement and retention of matured and experienced individuals in the system
as a way of arresting the falling standard of education in Nigeria.
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