Teachers’ salary arrears in 12 states

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Punch Editorial Board

A labourer deserves his wages, is a time honoured maxim, which the Nigeria Union of Teachers is drumming into the ears of governors in 12 states with mountains of teachers’ salary arrears. Some states owe half salaries for between 26 and 28 months. In one state, primary school teachers have not been paid for 12 months. These sound like fairy tales, but they are not.

The National President of the NUT, Michael Olukoya, who bemoaned this development early this month, said a nationwide strike was imminent. The affected states, according to him are, Abia, Bayelsa, Benue, Delta, Ekiti, Kaduna, Kwara, Kogi, Nasarawa, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Taraba. Both primary and secondary school teachers are affected.

Salary backlog has been a nightmare for at least 27 states since late 2014 when crude oil prices at the global market crashed. But trifling with teachers’ pay is…



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