13th January, 2024
Primary School teachers in Abuja will on Monday, January 15, resume their suspended strike. This follows the directive of the Federal Capital Territory Wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers.
The directive was contained in a communique dated January 12, 2024, and which issued after an emergency meeting of the Standing Committee of the NUT for the FCT.
The communique which was co-signed by the chairman of the NUT in the FCT, Abdullahi Shafas, the Secretary, Mrs Margaret Jethro and the Publicity Secretary, Ibukun Adekeye, directed secondary school teachers to join the strike from January 22, if nothing was done to meet the demands of the primary school teachers before January 19.
The communique partly read: “We are concerned that a series of meetings have taken place, but the primary school teachers remain in a pathetic situation and continue to bear the brunt of the high cost of living attributable to the removal of fuel subsidies without succour from anywhere.
“Saddened by the suffering of the Teachers and the un-willingness of the area council chairmen to pay the teachers these aforementioned entitlements, including the delay in the minister’s intervention, the State Wing Standing Committee in – Session has no other option than to direct all primary school teachers in the FCT to resume the suspended strike to further press home her demands. The strike will take effect from Monday, January 15, 2024.
“The SWSC-on-Session equally resolved that if the outstanding demands of the primary school teachers are not paid before Friday, January 19, 2024, all secondary school teachers in FCT will join in solidarity with effect from Monday, January 22, 2024 – an injury to one is an injury to all.”