{"id":201851,"date":"2025-07-07T08:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ending-the-embarrassing-strike-of-teachers-and-health-workers-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:42:57","slug":"nigeria-ending-the-embarrassing-strike-of-teachers-and-health-workers-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ending-the-embarrassing-strike-of-teachers-and-health-workers-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ending the Embarrassing Strike of Teachers and Health Workers in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Importantly, President Tinubu needs to equally pay attention to the plight of these teachers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">The Federal Capital Territory Administration (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fcta.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FCTA<\/a><\/strong>) was caught up in a whirlpool of protests by several trade unions last week, in solidarity with primary school teachers and healthcare workers who have been on strike for about four months over unpaid salaries and allowances. Workers in the FCTA are aggrieved too, over discrepancies in their salaries; and non-payment of some hazard or peculiar allowances&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507070080.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Importantly, President Tinubu needs to equally pay attention to the plight of these teachers. The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) was caught up in a whirlpool of protests by several trade unions last week, in solidarity with primary school teachers and healthcare workers who have been on strike for about four months over unpaid salaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[347,258,256,17637,5731,257,4687,393,254,2080,7113,6498],"class_list":["post-201851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abuja","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-embarrassing","tag-health","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-teachers","tag-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}