Teachers in Nigeria, yesterday joined their counterparts in other parts of the world to mark the World Teachers Day, and made several demands from government on welfare and other conditions of service aimed at improving the standard of the teaching profession in the country.

Speaking at the occasion, President of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, Michael Alogba-Olukoya, said it was criminal for any employer of labour not to pay its workers, urging state governments not to divert the bailouts offered them by the Federal Government but to use same to pay workers owed.

He said: “Apart from the fact that non-payment of the monthly salaries to hardworking workers is a criminal offence, it is also inhuman for any employer of labour to deny workers their monthly wages,” even as he expressed concern about the discrimination in the placement of terminal salary grade levels of graduate teachers in primary and secondary schools in various states.

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