More than 2,295 teachers were killed by Boko Haram terrorists in Northeast, the registrar of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Professor Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye, has said.
He said the teachers were killed between 2009 and 2022.
The registrar revealed this while delivering a paper at the 2022 National Delegates Conference of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), in Ibadan.
Professor Ajiboye said over another 19,000 teachers were displaced, 1,500 schools were forced to close due to insurgency and more than 600,000 children have lost access to education.
He called on the federal government to review its security architecture to address the deteriorating security situation because of terrorism and violent attacks on education.
Ajiboye requested for an rise domestic education expenditure of 50 per cent over the next two years as committed at the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Education Summit.
