Nigeria: Senate to Transfer Teachers’ Salaries From Recurrent to Current Expenditure

Nigeria / 03 de agosto de 2016 / Por: Abiodun Fagbemi / Fuente: http://allafrica.com/

The Senate may propose movement of teachers’ salaries from recurrent to current expenditure, with a view to ending non-payment of emoluments.

Senate President Bukola Saraki, in Ilorin, yesterday, said the current system where salaries of primary school teachers are paid by Local Government Areas (LGAs) is detrimental to educational growth.

Saraki, who was accompanied by the Chairman Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Yahaya Kaura, and his counterpart on Ethics and Privileges, Bala Ibn Na’allah, bemoaned the present trend of funding education in Nigeria where focus is placed on infrastructural growth at the tertiary level, to the exclusion of primary education.

Fuente noticia: http://allafrica.com/stories/201607260547.html