 Following President Buhari's move in transmitting to the Senate, a bill to increase the retirement age for teachers in the country from 60 to 65 years. The immediate past president of the Nigerian Union of Teachers Michael Olukwaya says it's a welcome idea, which is long overdue. Plus TV Africa's correspondent Destiny Momo has more. There is no doubt that teachers constitute an essential part of institutional building. Hence, their role cannot be overemphasized. They transmit knowledge from day to day, which ultimately transcends one generation to the other. President Mahmoud Buhari has transmitted the bill concerning teachers' retirement age and service year to the Senate. Now the citizens are asking if this bill is very important at this time. You see, if you check the work of teachers, it's more or less of standing. And there is no way you can cheat nature. I'm strongly supporting the bill, increasing the retirement's plan age for teachers. If they could extend the age of the teachers, the young ones should not get more chance to get into practice. So it will be unfair. We don't need teachers to retire now. We don't need that at all. What we need is how the economy will move forward. So I don't understand how the Nigerian economy and teachers relate. We don't need teachers to take over the cities and take over the cities, so things are very hard. It's a better thing that the government did. Michael Olukwaya praises the president's efforts in transmitting the bill, saying it will be for the good of teachers and the public, as young graduates shy away from the teaching practice. He says he looks forward to the reality of the bill. A lot of young ones are not interested and are not motivated into the sector because of what you know, what you and I know will fail. So it can be extended in years of service right now, with that irretaining better hands and the community's effect of that is that quality education will be further enhanced. Our teacher will request it to be under anonymity, says she prefers AFTI to pay gratuities instead. So they find it difficult to adapt. All the Instagram pages and all that, they're not really into it. But when you employ new young staff, they are still very strong. They can teach 20-30 years of study. The decision to increase the retirement age in service years of teachers was posh run to section 58, subsection 2, after the 1999 constitution, as amended. Destiny Momo for Plus TV Africa.