Dikko Radda, governor of Katsina State has been conferred with the Golden Award of Excellence for Education and Teacher Friendliness by the national leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT).

The honour was presented to the Governor on Sunday at the 2025 World Teachers’ Day celebration held at Eagle Square, Abuja, in recognition of his administration’s transformative reforms in education and commitment to teachers’ welfare.

This was contained in a statement by Ibrahim Mohammed, the chief press secretary to the Governor.

The statement read, “Receiving the award, Governor Radda stated that his administration has committed over 25% of the state budget in the last two years to the education sector, demonstrating unprecedented prioritisation of education development.

“We have conducted a major recruitment exercise that was never done in this country, recruiting over 7,000 teachers at once. We are now introducing rural incentives for our rural teachers to encourage them and give them the most needed attention for the development of our nation.

“We commend you, we encourage you, and we will try to do everything we are able to do to make your lives better.

“On behalf of our government, our colleagues and all the students of our state, we thank the union, we thank the Nigerian teachers, and we wish you well.”

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On his part, Audu Titus Amba, the NUT president, commended President Bola Tinubu for sustaining the President’s Teachers and Schools Excellence Award and expressed gratitude to state governors who have identified with teachers by supporting the observance of World Teachers’ Day.

The 2025 World Teachers’ Day, themed “Recasting Teaching as a Collaborative Profession,” brought together education stakeholders from across Nigeria to celebrate teachers’ contributions to national development.