DAMATURU -The Yobe State Government has approved N14,800 as the new minimum wage for teachers in the state.
Gov. Mamman Ali said this on Monday when the Minister of State for Education, Hajiya Aishatu Dukku, paid him a courtesy call in Damaturu.
The governor said the state had peculiar educational problems which required a special approach.
This, he added, informed the introduction of boarding primary schools in the state.
Ali said the establishment of boarding schools would reduce the apathy of parents to providing education to their wards.
‘’ When you take away the burden of feeding and providing uniforms to the pupils from the parents, this will boost enrolment in the schools,’’ he said.
He also said government was committed to checking cultism among pupils, adding that ‘’ the boarding system would help us check this menace.’’
The governor assured indigenes graduating from the National Teachers Institute NCE programme of employment.
Earlier, Dukku had said she was in the state to start a training programme for 145,000 primary school teachers taking place across the country.
She said the selection of Yobe for the exercise was informed by the commitment of the state government to improving the standard of education.
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