{"id":65755,"date":"2025-05-14T19:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65755"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:11:58","slug":"council-bosses-beg-teachers-to-resume-as-wage-talks-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/14\/council-bosses-beg-teachers-to-resume-as-wage-talks-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Bosses Beg Teachers to Resume as Wage Talks Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Chairmen of the Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory have called on striking public primary school teachers to return to the classroom, assuring them that the process of implementing the new national minimum wage of seventy thousand naira is already underway.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists in Abuja, Hon John Gabaya, Chairman of Bwari Area Council and Secretary of the FCT chapter of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, confirmed that councils have begun adjusting to the new wage demands.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke alongside ALGON Chairman and Kwali Council boss, Hon Danladi Chiya.<\/p>\n<p>The teachers, under the Nigeria Union of Teachers, have been on strike since December last year, pressing for full wage implementation and settlement of unpaid entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to resolve the matter earlier in February failed, forcing the union to continue the action that has shut down public primary schools across the FCT and kept thousands of pupils at home.<\/p>\n<p>Gabaya appealed to the teachers to consider the impact of the prolonged strike on children and expressed the councils\u2019 willingness to engage in further dialogue. \u201cOur priority is getting our children back into the classroom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, FCT Minister Nyesom Wike had earlier issued a warning that ten percent of statutory allocations to non-compliant councils could be withheld by the federal government if the dispute lingers.<\/p>\n<p>With negotiations expected to resume, hopes are high that normal academic activities may soon return to public schools across the territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Chairmen of the Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory have called on striking public primary school teachers to return to the classroom, assuring them that the process of implementing the new national minimum wage of seventy thousand naira is already underway. Addressing journalists in Abuja, Hon John Gabaya, Chairman of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65755","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65757,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65755\/revisions\/65757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}