During the 2021 World Teachers’ Day, President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), announced that his regime would make the teaching profession lucrative and ensure that teachers were adequately trained.
He also announced that student teachers undergoing training in public institutions would have access to semester stipends of N50,000 for those in colleges of education and N75,000 for those in universities.
Now, it has been revealed that the details of the N75,000 semester allowance promised by the President to students of education in federal universities and federal colleges of education will be out by next month.
This announcement was made by Josiah Ajiboye, the Registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, in a telephone interview with PUNCH.
According to him, the details about the implementation would unfold in January 2022.
He added that the letters had already been written and the Ministry of Education was working with the Tertiary Education Trust Fund in that regard.
“The ministers involved have prepared the letters and they are working alongside with TETFund. All the necessary things have been done; the details will be unveiled in January,” Ajiboye stated.
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