{"id":49822,"date":"2024-09-25T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=49822"},"modified":"2024-09-25T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T14:39:07","slug":"fct-primary-school-teachers-protest-unpaid-minimum-wage-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/25\/fct-primary-school-teachers-protest-unpaid-minimum-wage-arrears\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Primary School Teachers Protest Unpaid Minimum Wage Arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers in Nigeria&#8217;s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) staged a sit-in protest at area council secretariats, demanding payment of 25 months&#8217; worth of minimum wage arrears and other entitlements. The protest, involving men, women, and nursing mothers, highlighted the council chairmen&#8217;s failure to pay despite receiving substantial allocations.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters held placards expressing frustration over non-payment, leaving many in dire financial situations. Teachers shared personal struggles, including inability to afford school fees for their children.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) confirmed the sit-in, citing dissatisfaction with unfulfilled agreements. Despite meetings, no tangible solutions were presented.<\/p>\n<p>Another meeting is scheduled for Thursday to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers in Nigeria&#8217;s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) staged a sit-in protest at area council secretariats, demanding payment of 25 months&#8217; worth of minimum wage arrears and other entitlements. The protest, involving men, women, and nursing mothers, highlighted the council chairmen&#8217;s failure to pay despite receiving substantial allocations. Protesters held placards expressing frustration over non-payment, leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[1547],"class_list":["post-49822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nut"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49824,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49822\/revisions\/49824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}