ADVERTISEMENT
  • The Membership Club
  • PT Hausa
  • About Us
  • Advert Rates
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Premium Times Nigeria
  • Home
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Headline Stories
    • Top News
    • More News
    • Foreign
  • Investigations
  • Business
    • News Reports
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Analysis and Data
    • Business Specials
    • Opinion
    • Oil/Gas Reports
      • FAAC Reports
      • Revenue
  • Opinion
  • Health
    • News Reports
    • Investigations
    • Data and Infographics
    • Health Specials
    • Features
    • Events
    • Primary Health Tracker
  • Agriculture
    • News Report
    • Research & Innovation
    • Data & Infographics
    • Special Reports/Features
    • Investigations
    • Interviews
    • Markets
  • Arts/Life
    • Arts/Books
    • Kannywood
    • Lifestyle
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Travel
  • Sports
    • Football
    • More Sports News
    • Sports Features
  • Projects
    • Parliament Watch
    • Panama Papers
    • Paradise Papers
    • AGAHRIN
  • Home
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Headline Stories
    • Top News
    • More News
    • Foreign
  • Investigations
  • Business
    • News Reports
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Analysis and Data
    • Business Specials
    • Opinion
    • Oil/Gas Reports
      • FAAC Reports
      • Revenue
  • Opinion
  • Health
    • News Reports
    • Investigations
    • Data and Infographics
    • Health Specials
    • Features
    • Events
    • Primary Health Tracker
  • Agriculture
    • News Report
    • Research & Innovation
    • Data & Infographics
    • Special Reports/Features
    • Investigations
    • Interviews
    • Markets
  • Arts/Life
    • Arts/Books
    • Kannywood
    • Lifestyle
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Travel
  • Sports
    • Football
    • More Sports News
    • Sports Features
  • Projects
    • Parliament Watch
    • Panama Papers
    • Paradise Papers
    • AGAHRIN
Premium Times Nigeria
BUA Group Ad BUA Group Ad BUA Group Ad
ADVERTISEMENT
Aggrieved teachers disrupt academic activities at Federal Science and Technical College

Aggrieved teachers disrupt academic activities at Federal Science and Technical College

byAzeezat Adedigba
October 12, 2017
3 min read

RelatedNews

VIDEO: Nigeria receives 3.94 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines

Blood On Uniforms (1): Inside extra-judicial killings by police officers enforcing COVID-19 lockdown

VIDEO: Nigeria to receive COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday – Official

VIDEO: How bandits terrorised Kagara for years before students abduction

ADVERTISEMENT

Academic activities remained on hold for the seventh day on Monday at the Federal Science and Technical College, Orozo, in Abuja as the teachers continued their strike over crumbling facilities and other sundry issues.

The workers, who started their strike Friday last week, staged a protest within the school premises on Wednesday over the refusal of the authorities to address their grievances.
 
When PREMIUM TIMES visited the school on Thursday, the students were seen playing about in the premises while their teachers gathered under a tree singing solidarity songs.
 
Theresa Okukwe, a year one student of the school, told PREMIUM TIMES that the students had not been receiving lessons since Monday. 
 
“It is known everywhere that the teachers are on strike, so we’ve not been doing anything,” she said.
 
Olusegun  Ilurunmi, a teacher of the school who is also the chairman of the Orozo unit of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, said the teachers were aggrieved that some teachers were transferred from the school and were not replaced as a result of which some departments do not have teachers while the others were being overworked.
 
“Thirty-nine teachers and one vice principal were posted out of the school without being replaced and this has really affect some units of the school as they lack teachers,” he said. 
 
“Some units only have one teacher and the teacher must take the students from Year One to final year. Most times, the students end up doing practicals without theories for a week.
“Meanwhile, a teacher that transferred out of the school named Felix Ugwu still comes to supervise projects. There is a foul play,” he said.
 
“The department of Brick, block laying and concreting has one teacher for year one, two and three while Introduction to building has no teachers to teach the students. A caterer in the kitchen who is not a teacher was asked to leave the kitchen and start taking the students the subject.”
 
On the physical infrastructure of the school, Mr Ilurunmi said due to lack of a maintenance culture, the buildings had become dilapidated and nothing was being done about them.
 
“The boys’ hostel is in bad shape and some of the classrooms are surrounded by heaps of sand, a refuse dump and mud. Planks are placed on the floor to access some classrooms.
 

Dilapidated boys hostel
Dilapidated boys hostel
Dilapidated school structure
Dilapidated school structure
School compound
School compound

“Chairs were just brought to some classes last week but students in Year Two still stand to receive lessons,” he told PREMIUM TIMES.
 
Memunat Kariola, another teacher of the school who is also an official of the staff association, said the students were being treated poorly, alleging that they have only three fetching points for drinking water.
 
“About 1,500 of the students drink water in a spirogyra-infested environment. This was brought to the notice of the principal but nothing was done. 
 
“Most of the male students avoid the assembly ground and run into the bush because there is no water for them to bathe at times and for fear of being flogged by teachers for being unkempt.”
 
She said the school’s principal, Ihekwaba Obiageli, “just brought engineers today after yesterday’s protest to work on the abandoned boreholes.” 

IMG_20171012_100708

 
The immediate past chairman of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, Orozo branch, Olusegun Adebayo, told PREMIUM TIMES that the grievances of the teachers had become unbearable for them, saying it was the reason “why they had to protest.”
 
According to Mr. Adebayo, the teachers only get instructional materials yearly during WAEC and NECO examinations, despite huge sums allegedly provided for the materials.
 
He said the situation was affecting the final results of the students. 
 
“The whole problem started two years ago when she (Mrs. Ihekwaba) was made the principal.
 
The teachers alleged that the principal kept back part of a N23 million granted by Africa Development Bank to build the Business Development Centre of the school.
 
“The funds were not made available to all teachers but to those that are close to her. She prefers to bring in artisans than using the staff of the schools for projects. And now, the canteen and school halls are locked.”
 
When PREMIUM TIMES reporter went to the administration block to speak with the principal, the security officials said she was not around.
 
The Bursar of the school, Istifanus Mamza, however said the teachers’ boycott of work had been reported to the Federal Ministry of Education. He said he could not say more to the media.
 
“We have been told not to speak to journalists,” he said. 
 
According to a member of the staff, the principal, Mrs. Ihekwaba will be retiring on October 18. 
 
The principal did not pick calls to her phone or respond to text messages by the reporter at the time of filing this report.
 
When contacted, the spokesperson of the federal ministry of education, Chinyere Ihuoma, declined comment saying a new director for basic education who can provide details on the matter will assume office on Monday.
 
“There is a reshuffling in the ministry and the old director for basic education will not speak on this, but the new director will resume on Monday,” she said.

  • WhatsApp
  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print
  • Telegram
  • More
  • Share on Tumblr
  • Pocket

Support PREMIUM TIMES' journalism of integrity and credibility

Good journalism costs a lot of money. Yet only good journalism can ensure the possibility of a good society, an accountable democracy, and a transparent government.

For continued free access to the best investigative journalism in the country we ask you to consider making a modest support to this noble endeavour.

By contributing to PREMIUM TIMES, you are helping to sustain a journalism of relevance and ensuring it remains free and available to all.

Donate


TEXT AD: To advertise here . Call Willie +2347088095401...


JOIN THE CONVERSATION

  • Disqus (0)
premiumtimes



PT Mag Campaign AD

Previous Post

Nigerian League: Abia Warriors hire Brazilian coach

Next Post

Tagbo’s death: Davido releases official statement, CCTV footages

Azeezat Adedigba

Azeezat Adedigba

Azeezat Adedigba covers the education and labour sectors for PREMIUM TIMES. She is also an investigative journalist and the winner of the 2019 Female Reporters Leadership Program (FRLP) organised by Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). Azeezat is passionate about women and children advocacy. She holds a degree in Mass Communication from the University of Jos. She can be reached on Twitter @Adebimpe57.

More News

Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia

EFCC re-arraigns ex-Nigerian judge over money laundering charges

March 3, 2021
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, wanted by the EFCC for massive corruption.

Again, court adjourns Diezani’s fraud case amid extradition deadlock

March 3, 2021
Port Harcourt Refinery

Reps to probe ‘missing’ 5.2 million barrels of crude oil

March 3, 2021
Oil Barrels used to illustrate the story. [Photo credit: ThePointNG]

Oil prices rise as OPEC+ unlikely to raise output

March 3, 2021
Head of Service, Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita. ... Mass promotion for senior civil servants

Judge suspends Oyo-Ita’s N570 million fraud trial

March 3, 2021
gunmen

Gunmen kill one, abduct several travellers in Osun

March 3, 2021
Next Post
Davido lied about Tagbo’s death, re-invited for questioning – Police


Tagbo's death: Davido releases official statement, CCTV footages

South-west APC hails governors, ministers, other representatives in region

South-west APC hails governors, ministers, other representatives in region

Discussion about this post

Search

#EndSARS: Latest Updates




Polaris Bank


JAIZ Ad


NITDA Ad





Glo Ad

Subscribe to News via Email

Enter your email address and receive notifications of news by email.

Join 1,627,657 other subscribers.

Advertisement






netherland biz school Advert



Zenith Advert
ADVERTISEMENT

Our Digital Network

  • PT Hausa
  • Election Centre
  • Human Trafficking Investigation
  • Centre for Investigative Journalism
  • National Conference
  • Press Attack Tracker
  • PT Academy
  • Dubawa
  • LeaksNG
  • Campus Reporter

Resources

  • Oil & Gas Facts
  • List of Universities in Nigeria
  • LIST: Federal Unity Colleges in Nigeria
  • NYSC Orientation Camps in Nigeria
  • Nigeria’s Federal/States’ Budgets since 2005
  • Malabu Scandal Thread
  • World Cup 2018
  • Panama Papers Game
  • Our Digital Network
  • About Us
  • Resources
  • Projects
  • Data & Infographics
  • DONATE

All content is Copyrighted © 2020 The Premium Times, Nigeria

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Headline Stories
    • Top News
    • More News
    • Foreign
  • Investigations
  • Business
    • News Reports
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Analysis and Data
    • Business Specials
    • Opinion
    • Oil/Gas Reports
      • FAAC Reports
      • Revenue
  • Health
    • News Reports
    • Investigations
    • Data and Infographics
    • Health Specials
    • Features
    • Events
    • Primary Health Tracker
  • Agriculture
    • News Report
    • Research & Innovation
    • Data & Infographics
    • Special Reports/Features
    • Investigations
    • Interviews
    • Markets
  • Arts/Life
    • Arts/Books
    • Kannywood
    • Lifestyle
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Travel
  • Sports
    • Football
    • More Sports News
    • Sports Features
  • Projects
    • Panama Papers
    • Paradise Papers
    • Parliament Watch
    • AGAHRIN
  • Opinion
  • PT Hausa
  • The Membership Club
  • Dubawa
    • Dubawa NG
  • About Us
  • Advert Rates
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Store
  • DONATE

All content is Copyrighted © 2020 The Premium Times, Nigeria

Our website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.