PREAMBLE

Contemporary world attention is today focused on education as an instrument of launching nations into the world of science and technology and with consequential hope of human advancement, in terms of living conditions and development of the environment.

This is because education in the life of any nation is the live wire of its industries. It is the foundation of moral regeneration and revival of its peoples. Education is the force and bulwark of any nation’s defence. Therefore, no nation can afford to pay lip service to the education of its people. The nation that thinks lightly of education does so at its own peril. Read more...

MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY.

The attention of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has been drawn to the numerous acts of intimidation, harassment and torture continuously meted out to trade union leaders, particularly members of your organization, the Ethiopian Teachers’ Association. Read more..

Your Excellency,

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), a professional cum trade union organization of all teachers in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools and institutions in Nigeria is concerned by the governmental intimidation and harassment of trade union leaders and members of the Ethiopian Teachers’ Association (ETA) headed by Gemoraw Kassa. Read more...

“THE STATE OF BASIC EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: THE WAY FORWARD”
BEING A PAPER PRESENTED BY OBONG I. J. OBONG, SECRETARY GENERAL, NIGERIA UNION OF TEACHERS (NUT) TO THE 47TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (STAN) HELD AT CALABAR FROM 13TH – 19TH AUGUST, 2006

In this paper, an attempt is made to discuss operational framework of basic education in Nigeria in the light of one of the reform programmes of the Federal Government with a view to highlighting its impact on the future of Nigerians and with particular reference to its meeting the EFA and MDG’s. This discourse may not be elaborate as time, space and research are major constraints militating against its comprehensiveness. Read more...

OMAR ASSUMES OFFICE AS PRESIDENT OF THE NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS (NLC)

Mallam Abdulwaheed Ibrahim Omar, National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and a member of the Executive Board of Education International (E.I.) was on Friday 16th February 2007, elected by a landslide victory, as the National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), which is Nigeria’s major Central Labour Organization, made up of thirty seven main trade unions in the country. By a majority vote of 927, Read more...