The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has directed primary school teachers under the Local Education Authority (LEA) across the six area councils to resume their strike action from Monday, March 24, 2025.
The decision follows the failure of the council chairmen to implement the N70,000 new minimum wage in the February 2025 salary as promised.
Addressing journalists after an emergency State Wing Executive Council (SWEC) meeting held at the Teachers’ House in Gwagwalada on Sunday, the FCT NUT Chairman, Comrade Abdullahi Mohammed Shafas, expressed disappointment over the council chairmen’s refusal to honour the agreement reached with the union.
Shafas stated that the union had suspended its strike on February 21, 2025, based on the assurance that the new minimum wage would be implemented in February.
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However, the February salary was paid without incorporating the new wage, a move the union described as “disturbing, disheartening, and lacking in sympathy, empathy, and sensitivity to the plight of primary school teachers.”
The SWEC, after extensive deliberations, directed all primary school teachers across the six area councils to resume the suspended strike from Monday, March 24, 2025, until their demands are met.
The union’s demands include immediate implementation of the new minimum wage in the February salary by paying the differential between the old and new salary; payment of the March salary with the new minimum wage; payment of six months arrears of the minimum wage as agreed and implementation of the 40% peculiar allowance, 25% and 35% salary increases, and the N35,000 wage award, among others.
Shafas urged all union members to comply strictly with the directive and await further instructions.
Efforts to reach the Chairman of Kwali Area Council and FCT ALGON Chairman, Danladi Chiya, for comment, were unsuccessful, as he did not respond to calls or text messages by the time of filing this report.
