Wike meets leaders of NUT over FCT primary school teachers strike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is presently holding talks with officials of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, astatine his Abuja office.

According to a connection from his spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, the treatment is focused connected the ongoing onslaught by superior schoolhouse teachers successful the FCT.

On Tuesday, members of the NUT’s FCT section staged a protestation astatine the entranceway of the Federal Capital Territory Secretariat nether choky security.

They said the protestation was portion of a broader concern enactment that began connected Monday, April 20, 2026, arsenic teachers property the FCT medication implicit unresolved grievances.

The onslaught stems from an earlier directive issued connected Friday by the NUT FCT Executive Council, instructing some superior and secondary schoolhouse teachers to embark connected an indefinite onslaught starting Monday.

Wike meets leaders of NUT implicit FCT superior schoolhouse teachers strike