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3Mar

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Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

Abia Teachers Suspend Strike

The Nigerian Union of Teachers, Abia State chapter has suspended its industrial action in the state. The Chairman of the NUT, Comrade Kizito A. Kalu, and the State Secretary Mrs. Nnenna Okonkwo, in a statement, said the decision to suspend the strike was reached after the intervention and elaborate deliberations by the NUT, National leadership on the plight of Abia Teachers with Governor Okezie Ikpeazu on Monday, March 1, 2021. According to the statement, the government has agreed to prioritise the payment of teachers’ salaries, noting that the state government also agreed to pay all the outstanding arrears of salaries owed to both Senior and Junior Secondary School teachers in the state before the end of 2021. The statement partly read, “The government has agreed to pay the basic...

School Resumption: NUT Gives Conditions for Resumption in States

The Nigeria Union of Teachers has expressed readiness to resume work but warned that it would declare trade disputes with states owing workers up to four months salaries. The union stated that since COVID-19 had truncated academic activities for about five months, they were ready to return to classes as they had known how to guard against the virus. This was disclosed by the Secretary-General of NUT, Mike Ene, in an interview with Punch. “Yes, we will want to resume. I don’t think anything will make us not resume. We are ready, but the places where we will not resume are in states where the government is owing workers, especially states where the government is owing four months to any set of workers, either primary and secondary schools. We have asked our teachers to stay at home ...

Teachers Kick Against Edo Pension Scheme

Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, on Sunday, directed its members to shun enrollment into the state government’s contributory pension scheme. This was contained a statement titled, “forceful enrollment into contributory pension scheme”, signed and made available to newsmen in Benin City, by Moni Modesty, Assistant General Secretary of the union. He said the directive to NUT members remain effective until the union directs otherwise. Modesty said the decision was a follow-up to the resolution of the State Wing Executive Council of the union at its last meeting held on the 29th of December, 2020. He said, “As a follow-up to the resolutions of the State Wing Executive Council (SWEC) of the union at its last meeting held on the 29th of December, 2020; especially o...