Pending demands: Kwara teachers embark on fasting, prayers

Teachers in Kwara State have resolved to declare a day of fasting and prayer in supplication to God for divine intervention to ensure realisation of their pending demands from the state government.

In a statement, with reference number: NUT/KWSW/PRESS/067/VOL.1/16, issued on Tuesday by the state chairman of the Nigeria Union Teachers (NUT), Comrade Yusuf Agboola, and the deputy secretary general, MONI Mike Itua, the teachers said that they resolved to seek divine intervention after a stakeholders meeting, adding that they would go ahead to issue a formal ultimatum to the state government in preparation for a legitimate showdown.

The union, who did not state a particular date the fasting and prayers would hold, called on all its members to remain calm while awaiting further necessary
directives.

The teachers also dissociated themselves from social media publications calling out public schools teachers in the state for a protest against the union and the state government, “consequent upon the non-realization of some pending teachers’ demands from government”.

The statement also decried the alleged graveyard silence of the state government on the 27.5% and 21% Teachers Specific Allowances (TSA), “despite all the genuine efforts made by the union to get government to do the needful”.

“The attention of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Kwara State Wing has been drawn to social media publications calling out public schools teachers in the State for a protest against the union and the state government, consequent upon the non-realization of some pending
teachers’ demands from government.

“Arising from the above, the state leadership of the union, today the September 9, 2025 at a meeting with aggrieved critical internal stakeholders, brainstormed on all issues as well as steps and actions taken so far At the end of frank deliberations, Stakeholders:
(i) thanked Kwara State Government for the approval of financial backing for TESCOM 2024 teachers promotion; and.

“(ii) decried the graveyard silence of the State Government on the 27.5% and 21% Teachers Specific Allowances (TSA), despite all the genuine efforts made by the Union to get Government to do the needful.

“It was resolved that before a formal ultimatum is given to the State Government in preparation for a legitimate showdown, a day of fasting and prayer by all teachers in the State, shall be declared
by the State NUT in supplication to God for Divine interventions”.

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