Kogi teacher couldn’t raise N3,000 medical bill, dies

The Kogi  State Chairman of  the Nigerian Union of Teachers,  Mallam Suleiman Abdullahi, on Sunday said a teacher recently died  in the state because of his  inability to raise  N3,000  required for his medical bill as teachers in the state were being owed salaries and other entitlements.

He claimed that teachers in the state had been subjected to unbearable hardships.
He spoke when hundreds of  teachers under the NUT,  Kogi State chapter,  engaged in a   peaceful protest  to the Attah Igala, Chief Micheal  Oboni, over  alleged poor conditions of service.
The teacher who chanted songs called on the monarch to  assist them appeal to the state government to pay them their entitlements and outstanding salaries.
They decried the attendant hardship, claiming that it had recently led to the death of some  teachers in the state.
Abdullahi  who  led the protesters lamented the alleged neglect of basic education in the state adding that the government  allegedly no longer supplied teaching materials such as registers, scheme of work, chalk and biros  as well as furniture to the schools.
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