He said that the national office of the NUT had responded to the development by writing to inform the government that schools in Bayelsa might not open next week if it failed to settle the backlog of unpaid teachers’ salaries. If it fails to pay these salary arrears, the schools will not resume for another term next week. Apart from the salary arrears, we have to deal with another issue and it is about the N18,000 minimum wage arrears. One of them has to do with the implementation of promotion.”But, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, Bayelsa State, Mr. Onyinemia Ebredeni, said the salary arrears that the state government owed teachers in secondary schools were for 2016. He said, “The government owes teachers in the state four and half months’ salary arrears for 2016.

Source: Punch January 05, 2018 03:56 UTC