THE head teachers of primary schools in Nigeria have expressed concern over attacks on schools and the killing of innocent school children by terror groups and asked the Federal Government to provide adequate security around schools.  

Speaking under the auspices of Association of Primary School Head Teachers of Nigeria (AOPSHON), the head teachers specifically asked government to provide security around the schools, particularly those in the volatile area in the North.

The national president of the association, Mr Lawal Mahmud, spoke with newsmen, in Abuja, at the end of AOPSHON national executive council meeting on Wednesday.  

He decried the incessant bomb attacks in the country, a trend he said if not checked would be detrimental to the development of the nation.

The association also threw its full weight behind the leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on the planned strike in states of the federation yet to implement the 27.5 per cent teachers’ enhanced salary structure.

NUT leadership had ordered its members in the 14 states yet to implement the 27.5 per cent salary increment to commence indefinite strike with effect from July 23.

A communiqué issued at the end of the meeting also deplored the inadequacy of training and capacity building for head teachers and urged the government at all levels to reverse the trend.

It said: “NEC-in-session decried the level of decay in infrastructure in our public primary schools and called the attention of the federal, states and local governments to it and demand an emergency solution before the greatest damage is done to the existing low level of standard of primary education in Nigeria.

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