The National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Audu Amba, has warned that escalating insecurity across the country is gravely threatening the future of education in Nigeria.
Speaking on Tuesday at a stakeholders’ forum in Abuja, Amba lamented that frequent attacks on schools, abduction of students and teachers, and the closure of hundreds of schools in high-risk states have created a generation of learners being denied quality education.
“Bandits and insurgents have turned schools into targets. Teachers are fleeing rural posts. Parents are afraid to send their children to class. This is a national emergency for education,” Amba declared.
He noted that states like Borno, Yobe, Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, and Plateau have recorded over 1,500 school closures in the past two years, with hundreds of teachers either killed, kidnapped, or displaced.
The NUT president called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on education security, deploy special protection squads to schools, and provide hazard allowances for teachers working in dangerous zones.
The Ministry of Education has yet to respond to the NUT’s alarm as of press time.
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