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Articles from Nigeria

  1. Trade union rights are human rights 17 April 2014

    Nigerian Teachers’ union condemns abduction of female students

    Eight students are still missing after Nigeria’s military rescued 121 school girls two days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint in the country’s north-eastern Borno State. In response, The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has firmly condemned the 14 April abductions carried-out by suspected members of the terrorist group Boko...

    Nigerian Teachers’ union condemns abduction of female students
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 March 2014

    Nigeria: Education union opposes competency test for teachers

    The National President of EI national affiliate the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Michael Olukoya, has criticised the competency test for teachers introduced in Edo State as a scheme “to eliminate teachers”.

    Nigeria: Education union opposes competency test for teachers
  3. Trade union rights are human rights 27 February 2014

    Nigeria: Boys targeted and killed in terrorist attack on state school

    EI condemns the reported killing of between 29 and 59 school boys at their boarding school in Northern Nigeria in the early hours of 25 February. It is claimed that the boys were shot or burnt to death by the terrorist group commonly known as Boko Haram (which roughly translates...

    Nigeria: Boys targeted and killed in terrorist attack on state school
  4. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 January 2014

    Nigeria: Education union sponsors professional training

    EI’s national affiliate, the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), has sponsored 400 teachers to upgrade their professional skills.

    Nigeria: Education union sponsors professional training
  6. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 September 2013

    Nigeria: House of Representatives’ vote hits primary educators

    The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), one of EI’s national affiliates, has criticised the House of Representatives’ vote to grant autonomy to Nigeria’s local Governments without addressing issues relating to the development of primary education.The House of Representatives’ stance is “sad, unfortunate and inconsiderate”, said the NUT, as it impedes...

    Nigeria: House of Representatives’ vote hits primary educators
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 August 2013

    Nigeria: mass protest to save public education

    On 13 August, the Joint Action Front (JAF) led a national mass protest to save public education in Nigeria. EI’s national affiliate, the National Union of Teachers (NUT), is a JAF member.

    Nigeria: mass protest to save public education
  8. Trade union rights are human rights 9 July 2013

    Nigeria: EI condemns shocking school massacre

    EI has condemned the killing of 29 students and a teacher and the burning down of the Mamudo boarding school in Nigeria's north-eastern state of Yobe by suspected Islamist extremists.

    Nigeria: EI condemns shocking school massacre
  9. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 June 2013

    Nigeria: Teachers strike demands better wages

    EI’s national affiliate, the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has called on members to go on strike as of 1 June, due to the non-payment of a negotiated pay increase. Teachers are due a 27.5 per cent salary increase (Teachers’ Peculiar Allowance) and a minimum wage of 18,000 Nigerian Naira...

    Nigeria: Teachers strike demands better wages
  10. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 May 2013

    Nigeria: Extremist attacks hit school attendance

    EI has strongly condemned attacks on Nigerian schools, teachers and students that have kept 15,000 children away from school since last February. News of the attacks by Boko Haram (BH) extremists came from IRIN, the news service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The attacks on...

    Nigeria: Extremist attacks hit school attendance
  11. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 November 2012

    Nigeria: teacher gap must be addressed

    The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has demanded that the federal Government in Nigeria pay teachers’ salaries in order to maintain their employment in financially-strapped States in Nigeria. The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), issued this demand in response to the statement by Professor Mohammed Ibn Junaid, the Executive Secretary...

    Nigeria: teacher gap must be addressed
  12. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 May 2012

    Africa acknowledges crucial role of qualified teachers

    Teachers’ professional development represents one of the three main pillars of the Second Decade of Education for Africa. The other two pillars are formal and non-formal vocational education and training, and higher education. These pillars were reaffirmed by the Conference for Ministers of Education of Africa (COMEDAF V) in Abuja,...

    Africa acknowledges crucial role of qualified teachers
  13. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 May 2012

    Africa acknowledges crucial role of qualified teachers

    Teachers’ professional development represents one of the three main pillars of the Second Decade of Education for Africa. The other two pillars are formal and non-formal vocational education and training, and higher education. These pillars were reaffirmed by the Conference for Ministers of Education of Africa (COMEDAF V) in Abuja,...

    Africa acknowledges crucial role of qualified teachers
  16. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 March 2006

    Nigeria: Affiliate faults Implementation of Universal Basic Education

    EI affiliate the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has faulted the implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) programmes in the country, saying that the fundamental principles and policy of UBE are being compromised.

    Nigeria: Affiliate faults Implementation of Universal Basic Education