The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, has lamented adequate manpower in public primary schools across the country.
The National President of NUT, Audu Amba made this known at the occasion of the 2024 World Teachers’ Day Celebration on Saturday in Abuja, adding that some primary schools are barely manned by one or two teachers.
The theme for this year’s World Teachers Day’s theme is “Valuing Teacher Voices: Towards a New Social Contract for Education.”
Amba said the manpower crisis had left pupils to suffer learning poverty with a bleak future ahead.
He added that the situation in Junior and Senior Secondary Schools, especially in rural communities, is worrisome.
“In Nigeria, UBEC (2024) survey indicates that there is a shortage of 194,876 teachers in public primary schools across the country,” he said
