Nigeria: Governors, Settle Teachers' Salaries

Nineteen states in the country owe teachers in public primary and secondary schools several months of unpaid salaries and allowances, according to the Nigeria Union of Teachers [NUT], the umbrella union of teachers in this country. Rising from its National Executive Council [NEC] meeting at the Teachers' House, Oluyole, Ibadan, Oyo State last week, NUT's National President Comrade Michael Alogba Olukoya issued a 30-day ultimatum to governors of the affected states to pay all outstanding salary arrears or face "an aggressively- driven indefinite and total strike action."

The NUT leader listed the states and what they respectively owe teachers to include Benue (10months); Ekiti (6 months); Cross River (6 months); Kogi (15 months with teachers being paid half salary since 2013); Ondo (5 months); Taraba (4 months); Niger (3 months); Delta (4 months); and Oyo (3 months). Others are Abia (5 months); Osun (which has been paying half salary for the past 23 months); Nasarawa (where teachers have been on half salary for 18 months); Plateau (which has been paying half salary since 2010); Adamawa (4 months); Bayelsa (eight and half months); Imo (which has been paying 70% of monthly salary to teachers); and Kwara (4 months). Comrade Olukoya added that Borno and Zamfara States are yet to implement the existing national minimum wage.

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