The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has threatened to go on strike in states where schools are being attacked and students and teachers abducted in the country.
The union made the threat on Wednesday while expressing regret over the abduction of students and teachers of the Goverment Secondary School, Kangara, Niger state.
Calling on the Federal Government to urgently declare a state of emergency on the security situation in the country, the NUT warned that it “will not hesitate to withdraw the services of all teachers in the affected states of the federation”, if the security situation in schools and colleges were not guaranteed.
The Niger State government has released the names of students and teachers kidnapped by bandits on Tuesday night from the Government Science College, Kagara in the Rafi local government area of the state.
A statement signed by Mary Noel-Berje, the Chief Press Secretary to the state Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, on Wednesday, revealed that 27 students, three teachers, two non teaching staff and nine family members of the staff staying in the quarters were abducted by the gunmen.
In the statement, the names of the abducted teachers were given as Hannatu Philip, Lawal Abdullahi and Dodo Fodio, while the non teaching staff kidnapped were Mohammed Musa and Faiza Mohammed.
Saraki-led Reconciliation Committee in closed-door session with PDP BoT
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Saraki who chairs the committee, made this known via a tweet on his verified Twitter handle.
The tweet reads: “As we continue to engage all critical stakeholders in our party, this morning, members of #PDPReconciliation & Strategy Committee and I are consulting with the highly respected members of the PDP Board of Trustees led by the Chairman of the BoT, Senator Walid Jibrin.”
DAILY POST recalls that the PDP committee on Wednesday met with former Governors elected on the platform of the party to resolve some crisis currently rocking the party.
The Academic Staff Union of Secondary School, (ASUSS), has faulted the claims by the Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT), that some state governors that are not paying teachers’ salary are misleading and using some breakaway members of ASUSS to destabilize the 90-year-old union.
ASUSS also refuted the position of NUT that, the Supreme Court in its judgement of January 15, 2021, refused to grant secondary school teachers operating under the umbrella of ASUSS, power to operate as a trade union.
In a statement issued to DAILY POST on Thursday by the National President of ASUSS, Comrade Samuel Omaji, through the Kogi State Chairman of the union, Comrade Ranti Ojo, the union maintained that the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment or any court of competent jurisdiction has not cancelled the approval of ASUSS as a trade union as claimed by NUT in a media briefing last week.