* Ikpeazu 
Teachers in public primary and secondary schools in Abia have embarked on strike to protest alleged government’s failure to pay their salaries.



 According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), schools in the state were supposed to reopen on Monday, January 9 after the Christmas and New Year holidays but resumption was postponed to Monday, January 16.

 It was learned that the teachers refused to resume, insisting on the payment of their outstanding five months salary arrears.

 At Ibeku High School, Umuahia and School Road Primary School, Umuahia, students and pupils, who turned up for school, were seen leaving the premises in droves.

 The Principal of Ibeku High School, Mr Ojike Kalu-Ojike, said in his office that the teachers were attending a meeting over the situation.

 An executive member of the state branch of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), however, said on condition of anonymity that the teachers had proceeded on strike.

 “The teachers have gone on strike to demand the payment of their salaries,” he said.

 The source said secondary school teachers were issued their salary cheques for July 2016 in December, while their primary school counterparts were just receiving theirs.

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