The Vice Chancellor of Nigeria’s Premier Technical University located in Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State, Professor Ayobami Salami has submitted that all teachers in Nigeria must receive nothing less than 30,000 naira in a month.
He gave this submission on Monday while delivering a lecture titled ‘Saving Our Schools from moral Decadence in the Internet Age’ during the celebration of the Founder’s Day of Lagelu Grammar School, Agugu, Ibadan.
Salami, who was also a one-time Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife said that teachers must be taken care of just like doctors and other highly paid professionals by the government.
He went ahead to give the example of Finland, a country in Europe where “teachers are among the highest paid workers in the league of health workers and the police.”
Ayobami continued “Germany also rates the services of its teachers high and the country pays them accordingly. Nigeria needs to radically jack up the emoluments and other incentives for teachers if the standards of education will be raised.”
The scholar also had words of advice for Nigerian teachers. According to him “it takes a disciplined teacher to produce a disciplined student. A good teacher should be a master of his or her subject. But that is not all, he should be a true master in moral class.”
The event was attended by prominent members of Lagelu Grammar School Old Boys Association (LAGSOBA) including its new National President, Hon Justice Adegbola Adeniyi.
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