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The Niger State Wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has held a special prayer session to seek spiritual intervention for the problems teachers are facing in the state.
The session was attended by local government branch chairmen and their secretaries held at its multipurpose hall in Minna, where Christians and Muslim clerics led the prayer session.
Among their supplications to God was the payment of enhanced salaries and allowances, payment of pension and gratuities to retired teachers as well as for God to touch the heart of the government to invest in the renovation of dilapidated primary and secondary school buildings.
They also prayed to God to grant freedom to all those kidnapped by gunmen in the state and for the restoration of peace across troubled regions of the state and the country.
The state Chairman of the Union, Akayago Adamu Mohammed, in a brief remarks, said the union believes that the hearts of kings are in the hands of God, so they have decided to take their problems with the government before God.
He assured the teachers that the union would continue to put pressure on the leadership of the state until it meets all its demands.
Also, the state Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Idrees Lafene, in a speech dubbed the state Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago administration as “anti-worker government” because only one of the 15 demands made had been attended to by the government.
Lafene said the Congress could declare strike “any moment from now because the ultimatum given to government has since lapsed.”
