Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has directed its members to ignore the 22nd of September, 2014 resumption date of primary and secondary schools in Nigeria announced by the federal government.

National President of NUT, Comrade Micheal Olukoya, gave the directive while briefing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to him, the teachers should only resume if the Federal Government sufficiently trained and provide them with necessary preventive and protective gadgets on Ebola virus.
“But where the federal government insists on the 22nd September, 2014, date in spite of the wise counsel, the union will rather direct teachers to resume schools whenever they are sufficiently trained and their schools have been provided with the necessary preventive and protective gadgets.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the teachers have this day, resolved to resume classes in obedience to the federal government directive, in states where teachers have been trained to handle any outbreak and all the required preventive and protective gadgets such as hand gloves, sanitizers, infra-red thermometers, running water and soaps have been provided as directed by federal government of Nigeria.
“In states where the training has not been done and necessary safeguarding gadgets not provided, teachers shall continue to remain at home until their state governments respond positively or the union directs them to the contrary”.

He noted that the dream of the union is to see all things put in place to protect the teachers and school children from being infected in the school.
“The NUT is strongly of the opinion that it is better to delay the resumption of school till 13th October, 2014, even when the scourge would have been off months ago than rush and open schools only to be faced with attacks of EVD in the schools.

“It makes more sense to be doubly sure than to operate on shaky grounds of uncertainty and probability as it will be catastrophe of unimaginable dimension if by any act of omission we rush and open schools and end up with even up with even one primary or secondary school being infected by the virus.

The union also threatened to shut down the education sector if the federal government scraps the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) because it is the only regulatory body for the practice of teaching in Nigeria from primary school to the tertiary institution.
“This attempt at scrapping TRCN shows clearly that the federal government does not care about the standard of teachers of Nigeria and the much sought-for professionalism of the teaching industry.

“The teachers of Nigeria are watching this development with keen interest with a view to returning to the trenches of 1992 and 1993 as they will not just fold their hands and watch the bastardisation of thief profession”.

Source: http://www.informationng.com/2014/09/ebola-nut-asks-teachers-to-ignore-sept-22.html

The education sector is in a precarious situation....

God save our country

? Can anyone calculate the cost of this Ebola?

ehizo25: ?

Its serious my bro....

what is this country turning to?

Agreed...25th-dec_on_point

ayanbaba2: Agreed...25th-dec_on_point

no time


9ja kids will be like

Odunharry: no time

Odunharry: no time

Odunharry: no time

No option.

no prob

T

M not in support of dis sept22 thingy atall

Ignore tha damn thing and resume next year.!

Odunharry: no time

When I was a kid; the news of an impending strike lifts my spirit like human hair do to Naija ladies. Our teachers, then, were committed but we weren't. Today, the reverse is the case.

Teachers of today are a bunch of people who missed their targets in life and are teaching to 'pass time' and find their footing again. They are not serious and committed! They are more interested in their monthly pay, than the welfare of the student.


What am I saying? In Nigeria, today, most people are interested in one job - Politician! - That is where you sit and do nothing, while accumulating wealth like no man's business.

God help this country.

Nation of confused people
FG announced closure of schools until mid october, everybody holla it was to long.
FG announced resumption date for school, everyone is shouting not to go back to school. Why nigerians cannot use their mind and brains for once and stop following the bandwagon of some buffoons.

Who wan die

E'rybody now tryna employ the Ebola crisis for their private pockets... NUT, Association of proprietors, PTA & FG.

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why does the government want the schools to resume in such a hurry when
the scourge of ebola is still evident in our country?
these kids have parents who might be ebola positive and then they pass it to their kids who unkowingly bring it to school.
i will really hate to see a school child die from ebola because of this

Once sunday school, cathecism classes etc in different churches r open then I tink sch shld resume n preventive measure put in place against Ebola. This NUT directive is nt palatable, teachers shld resume on 22 n pupils on 29 so they can use one week to train d teachers on Ebola.

I wonder why govt do neglect teachers(NUT) decisions sometimes.we are talking abt life,abeg govt should try postpone dat dere ressumption day to october if possible

If the NUT keep waiting for federal govt directive on the training about ebola, that means they dont want to resume school. It is better school resume and each school establish their own preventive measure.

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All of you....if you have nothing to say...don't say it.
To the topic....there should be some coherence in our education policy. I find the attempt to scrap the TRCN strange.
Wetin consign u, must I state my opinion with alphabets.............mtcheeew!

This people are just confused....they need the hand of God in their lives!!




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