Court stops FG from retiring education directors after eight years

Justice Anuwe also set aside the three circulars and granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Federal Government and the Ministry of Education from implementing the eight-year tenure policy against teachers and education officers in a manner inconsistent with the Harmonized Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Act.…upholds teachers’ retirement at 65 By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ruled that teachers and education officers who become directors in the Federal Civil Service cannot be compulsorily retired after spending eight years in office, declaring that they are entitled to remain in service until they attain 65 years of age or complete 40 years of pensionable service.

The judge further observed that the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation had, in an earlier 2025 correspondence, acknowledged that the Teachers’ Retirement Age Act superseded the eight-year tenure policy in respect of education officers and teachers, making it inconsistent for the government to later argue otherwise.