By Sunday ABAH, Abuja
School children in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have appealed to striking teachers in the six-area Council to consider their plight and call off their two-month industrial action.
In separate interviews with newsmen on Tuesday in the the Bwari Area Council of the FCT, the children made the appeal, while sharing their thoughts on the 2025 Children’s Day.
Recall that the Nigeria Union of Teachers and Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in FCT had in March embarked strike due to non-payment of the N70,000 minimum wage.
Blessing Adamu, a 10-year-old primary four child at LEA 2, Primary School, Bwari, said that staying at home for more than two months without learning was a big disruption to their academic programmes.
She appealed to the FCT administration and the teachers to resolve their differences and call off the strike.
“I am not happy that I have been at home for this long.
“My friends in the private schools are going to school, and I am staying at home to help my mummy with her business and chores,” she said.
Another pupil, Jonah Mathias, said that he was now bored due to the duration of the strike, saying, “I am missing both physical and intellectual exercises in school.”
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