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2023 elections: NUT advocates support for worker-friendly candidates
Amba said when one neglected the welfare of teachers certainly one would not get the needed result.
He said that the leadership of the union had increasingly engaged the states government on the issues of N30,000 Minimum Wage and Consequential Adjustments.
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Amba said that the Union had also filed trade dispute with the Registrar of Trade Unions against some non-cooperative states governments.
He reaffirmed the determination of his administration to take the Union to greater heights, through the immense, solid and numerous achievements of his predecessors.
Earlier in his sermon Imam Muhammad Bin ‘Uthman urged government at all levels to ensure adequate security for the nation towards better learning condition .
Bin ‘Uthman said for any nation to be educationally developed, there must be physical and spiritual security, saying that insecurity is a big challenge to national development.
He added that other factors necessary for national development included food security, job opportunity, power supply and quality healthcare system.
Also speaking, Rev. Fr. Nduka Uzo, advised that Nigerians should learn to live together in love and harmony irrespective of their differences.
Uzo encouraged teachers to always come to God in prayers, praises and thanksgiving, saying instead of complaining, they should use the time to ask God for provisions.
He said that being a teacher was a vocation, so they should not give up in the struggle.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NUT solemn assembly was to commit the leaders, teachers, their welfare and action plans to the hands of God towards an all-round success for the good of the profession and the nation. (NAN)
L-R: The President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, Minister of FCT, Mallam Mohammad Musa Bello and the President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Yakubu Maikyau, during the NLC 13th National Delegates Conference, held yesterday in Abuja.
