The appalling scripts have essentially triggered concerns about the future of Nigerian children and education standards
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Malam Yahaya Abbas, NUT Chairman in Zaria Local Government, disclosed this on Tuesday in Zaria, while reacting to a mass protest by primary school pupils in Sabon-Gari
Amba said the union had issued a two-week ultimatum to the state government to reverse its decision to disengage 21,780 primary school teachers for failing its competency test.
The state Chairman of the NUT, Bulama Abiso, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri on Sunday.
The Kaduna State Government had conducted an examination for primary school teachers in the state and said 68 per cent of the teachers (20,000) did not pass the Primary 4 pupils’ exam at excellent level.
Sesan Ogunwomoju, the NUT chairman in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, gave the advice on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos
Malam Ibrahim Umaru, the Union’s Chairman in Niger State, made this known in Minna on Thursday during the 2017 celebration of World Teachers Day tagged: “Teaching in Freedom, Empowering Teachers.”
The governor said in an address to mark the World Teachers Day, organised by the NUT and the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, that the government was also disturbed by the scale of absenteeism among teachers
Dr. Mike Ike-Ene, the Acting Secretary-General of the union, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that previously, 19 States owed, but some states have paid except 13
The state Secretary of the Union, Mike Itua, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin that the problem would have adverse effects on students’ performance.
The workers gathered at the entrance of the Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island at about 8am with placards singing and chanting solidarity songs.
Ayuba Wabba, the President, Nigeria Labour Congress, said this in a statement jointly signed by him; Ibrahim Khaleel, the President of NULGE; and Michael Alogba-Olukoya, the President of the NUT
Ike-Ene said it had become necessary for the union to dialogue with the relevant stakeholders, with a view to resolving the unpaid salary arrears owed by 19 states and the Federal Government.
The National President of the union, Comrade Micheal Olukoya, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos.
He said the development has placed him under severe hardship
Dogara disclosed this when he received a delegation from the Nigeria Union of Teachers who paid him a courtesy visit on Wednesday in Abuja
This was after they rejected the one month salary offered to them by the state government to avert the action
The NUT, in a communique signed by its Chairman, Kala-Ama Tonpre, and Secretary, Johnson Hector, said the union took the decision after its Executive Council meeting held on Saturday in Yenagoa
Dr. Stephen Odey, the chairman of the state SUBEB, disclosed this on Wednesday
The NUT Chairman in the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Umar, made the request at the opening of the Quadrennial Delegates Conference of the union in Kotangora on Tuesday