Dogara: N/Assembly will raise teachers’ retirement age to 65

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Dogara and members of the NUT

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has assured Nigerian teachers that the National Assembly will increase their retirement age from 60 to 65 years to retain more experienced teachers in public schools.

Speaking when he received a delegation from the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) who paid him a courtesy visit in his office, he said the House supports an upward review of teachers’ retirement age for Nigerian children to benefit from.

“We have done it for the tertiary institutions and the judiciary, so nothing should stop us from taking the bull by the horns. They say that wine gets better with age, it was the same consideration that motivated us to raise that of university lecturers,raise that of judges. So this is something we can pursue.

“Thankfully, it doesn’t require constitutional amendment, it is something we can…

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