Mass abduction: Student recounts near-death experience before escape
• Bandit assisted me to escape – JSS student
• Zamfara shuts boarding schools
Our Correspondents
The Nigeria Union of Teachers on Tuesday threatened to embark on a nationwide strike following continued threat to lives of its members and students.
The Secretary-General of the NUT, Dr Mike Ene, stated this in a statement in Abuja while reacting to the abduction of 333 students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State and other cases in the country.
Ene said this just as one of the abducted students narrated how he escaped from bandits.
The Junior Secondary School 2 student ,Tsanni Mani, in an interview with journalists in Kankara, said he escaped from the bandits very early on Saturday morning.
Edo school teachers issue 21-day strike ultimatum
Adeyinka Adedipe, Benin
The Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers on Wednesday issued a 21-day ultimatum to the state government to pay its members’ outstanding entitlements.
This was contained in a communique issued after the meeting of the State Wing Executive Council on Wednesday. The statement was signed by Pius Okhueliegbe, Chairman, Moni Mike Itua, Assistant Secretary General and three other officers of the body.
According the communique, the State Wing Executive Council deliberated on issues of education, teachers welfare, conditions of service, among other and found the government wanting .