Nigeria Approves Stipends for Education Students in Public Tertiary Schools

The Nigerian government, in a bid to encourage more Nigerians to take up career in teaching  has announced the payment of N75,000 per semester for every student of public universities studying education programmes.

Similarly, the Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) students are also billed to receive N50,000 per semester as part of  the deliberate effort of the goverment to attract the best brains into the teaching profession as promised by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), last year.

Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, announced this on Tuesday, at the World Teachers’ Day celebration held at Eagle Square, Abuja.

Adamu, whose speech was read by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, said his ministry would collaborate with the state governments to ensure automatic employment for the students on graduation.

He said, “Undergraduate students of B.Ed / B.A. Ed/ BSc. Ed in Public institutions are to receive stipends of N75,000.00 per semester while NCE students will get N50,000.00 as stipends per semester.

“Federal Government should find the modality through which respective states’ governments could provide automatic employment for NCE graduates at Basic Education level.”