Senator Aliyu Magarakarda Wamakko has commended Nigerian teachers, describing them as the strongest pillar of the Nigerian society.
The lawmaker made the commendation in Wednesday noted that ” Nigeria would not have been where it is today without the valuable contributions of teachers”.
Wamakko explained that all the advancement in Science and technology all over world today is to the credit of teachers” adding that “I know what it means to be a teacher because I was one”.
The lawmaker commended teachers for what he described as their “unrelenting war on low literacy levels, especially in Nigeria as the leading black nation in the world”.
World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5th October, to celebrate all teachers around the globe.
It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, teaching and learning conditions.
