Teachers’ Strike: Senate summons minister, NUT
The Senate has summoned Education Minister, Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu to appear before it today following the Federal Government’s inability to resolve the three-week old crisis over implementation of the Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) demanded by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT).
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Teachers Fast, Pray At Designated Centres
As the teachers’ nationwide strike enters the fourth week, they have resolved to reposition themselves by seeking divine intervention through fasting and praying at designated centres.
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Teachers’ Strike: Mark Calls for Dialogue
Senate President David Mark has called on government and the striking teachers to embrace dialogue as a way out of the dispute over implementation of teachers’ new salary scale. |
No end in sight for teachers’ strike
There appears not to be succour in sight for the striking teachers in the country as a consultative meeting convened in Abuja on Tuesday between the Federal Government’s representatives and those of state governments on the on-going strike in the country rose without any clear-cut decision on the issues at stake.
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NUT strike: Yar’Adua’s govt insensitive, says Balarabe Musa
Former governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has lashed out at the President Umaru Yar’Adua administration over the ongoing nationwide strike by teachers in public schools. He described the government as insensitive to the plight of the teachers whose demand he said was in order. |
NUT Strike Update: More Private Schools Join
As teachers’ nationwide strike enters its fourth day today, more private schools in Lagos have joined their colleagues in the public schools, to fight for improved welfare package. |
Ibadan Poly shut...Rector not in control -ASUP
The authorities of ThePolytechnic, Ibadan on Tuesday, ordered the campuses of the institution closed, for two weeks, as a result of protracted crisis involving it and two industrial unions of the school. |
Teachers begin indefinite strike
Primary and secondary school teachers across the country will today commence an indefinite strike action to press for the implementation of the Teachers Salary Structure (TSS) which has for sometime set off a battle between the teachers and the Federal Government. |
