ABUJA — Teachers across the country marked World Teachers' Day with demands for better pay, more recruitment and improved security in schools. Speaking at Eagle Square, Abuja, the NUT National President, Comrade Audu Titus Amba, represented by Elder Kalu Kizito, said a special salary structure approved in 2022 has still not been implemented. The union said it had issued ultimatums to 19 states, citing fractional salary payments in Kogi, Benue, Bayelsa and Ekiti, and called for the reversal of the planned concession of King's College, Lagos. The President of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, Olusola Adigun, said a 27.5 per cent increment remains unimplemented in some states. Across the states, Gombe said it had recruited more than 1,000 teachers since 2019, Ekiti presented N70.5 million in awards and said it had recruited 5,530 teachers, while in Cross River some parents' associations were paying teachers N20,000 each. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, and the Minister of State, Prof. Suwaiba Ahmad, pledged attention to teachers' welfare.