The Minister of Education Honorable Haruna Iddrisu has said that for the country to meet its teacher demand, it need to employ about 98,000 teachers.
Speaking in an exclusive interview on Thursday March 5,2026 with Tv3 NewDay, the sector minister noted that government’s compensation budget cannot cover the entire number.
However, he added that his Ministry together with the Ministry of Finance are drafting a new memo for cabinet approval to recruit about six thousand to ten thousand cohort of teachers from 2023 to 2024.
