US EditionNigeria: Teachers' Strike - Wike Withholds FCT Area Councils' IGR
- The Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike convened a meeting on Thursday to resolve a three-month strike by primary school teachers in Abuja.
- The strike began due to unpaid salary arrears totaling N18 billion, with teachers accusing area council chairpersons of ignoring wage agreements and backlog payments.
- All parties consented to allocate a tenth of the revenue collected by the area councils over the previous six months to cover approximately 70 percent of the outstanding salaries owed to the teachers.
- Mr. Abubakar Abdullahi, representing the council chairmen, appealed to the teachers' union to end the strike, stating the councils consented despite the withholding being legally questionable.
- The resolution signals progress toward ending the strike and reopening schools, pending the union's leadership meeting to consider suspending industrial action.
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Nigeria: Teachers' Strike - Wike Withholds FCT Area Councils' IGR
The leadership of the FCT wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) will meet today to deliberate on whether to call off their three-month-old strike. This is coming after the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, met with union representatives, the six area council chairmen, and other stakeholders to find a resolution to the primary school teachers' ongoing strike.
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FCT Teachers’ Strike: Wike approves use of 10% council IGR to offset owed teachers' dues
The teachers had accused the council chairpersons of failing to implement the new national minimum wage and failing to implement previous agreements The post FCT Teachers’ Strike: Wike approves use of 10% council IGR to offset owed teachers’ dues appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
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