Fayemi To Workers: I ‘Ll Begin Payment Of N30, 000 Minimum Wage This Month

Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi on Saturday gave the
state workers a good news when he announced his readiness to begin
the payment of N30, 000 minimum wage to workers from October, 2019.
The teeming crowd of workers greeted the gesture with a thunderous
ovation.

Fayemi said the measure is to stimulate workers, especially
teachers, to be able to deliver the best to the state and reclaim
the lost glory and pride of being the education nerve centre of the
country.

The Governor spoke at Oluyemi Kayode stadium in Ado Ekiti during
the 2019 celebration of the Teachers’ Day, with the theme: “Young
Teachers, the Future of the Profession”.

At the event, Mr. Henry Olaoluwa Asubiojo of Amoye Grammar
School and Tajudeen Olaoye of Anglican Primary School, Esun Ekiti
and Mrs Mojisola Ehinafe of Technical School, Ado Ekiti ,were
awarded with cash price of N500,000 each, for emerging as the best
teachers in the state.

Fayemi said he decided to inject new breeds of teachers into the
state’s public schools, by recruiting 2,000 new teachers to secure
the future of the state.

“We will commence payment of N30,000 to workers in Ekiti with
effect from this month. We are determined to reward diligence
because the workers, particularly our teachers have done the state
proud.

“In this year’s WAEC , Ekiti was ranked 12th. I want to salute
our teachers but that is not where Ekiti belonged, we must
continually do more to rise to number one”, he said.

He said he was highly determined to protect and preserve the
core values of making Ekiti the education capital of the
nation.

Fayemi said he decided to etablish more schools in Ado Ekiti
capital city to depopulate the overpopulated ones and make learning
more conducive.

“The only way we can recoaim.our lost glory in education is to
encourage our teachers in and outside service . I will promote
functional and technical education in this state.

“I have also ensured that all students of school age are in
schools in line with education law which makes basic education
compulsory and in line with global best practice.

In his lecture at the forum, the Provost , College of Education,
Prof. Isaac Adeoluwa , said for Nigeria to move to its pride of
place, teachers must be made to be ICT compliant and embrace modern
techniques of teaching.

“Use of digital tools methodology makes learners innovative,
expand scope of retention, increase teachers competitiveness and
relevance and create enabling environment for both learners and
teachers”, he said.

The Chairman of the Ekiti State chapter of the Nigeria Union of
Teachers, Com. Samuel Odugbesan , praised Fayemi for recruiting
teachers into public schools across the state, saying this will
help in strengthening the future of education.

His counterpart in Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools,
Com. Sola Adigun , said prompt and regular payment of salaries has
rescued the teachers from wanton poverty.

Odugbesan said: “Teachers are retiring every day without
replacement but with these recruitmebts in primary and secondary
schools, the future of our education is guaranteed.

“Not having young teachers in the teaching profession is
threatening the future of education and these recruitments are
commendable”, appealing to Fayemi to pay all outstanding salaries
and allowances for improved welfare and wellbeing of the
teachers.