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December 18, 2017: The National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Kaduna division, on last Thursday, halted the planned sack of 21,780 primary school teachers who failed a competency test organised by the state government.<\/p>\nDecember 18, 2017: The National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Kaduna division, on last Thursday, halted the planned sack of 21,780 primary school teachers who failed a competency test organised by the state government.<\/p>\n
The lawyer representing the teachers, Samuel Atum, had on October 30 filed a motion of \u201cinterlocutory injunction\u201d, asking the court to restrain the government from dismissing or disengaging any teacher on the basis of the test conducted in June 2017.<\/p>\n
Justice Lawal Mani granted the application pending the determination of the substantive suit. The case was adjourned to February 6th, 2018.\u00a0The hearing on Thursday was attended by hundreds of teachers and labour leaders.\u00a0\u00a0The lawyer, Mr. Atum, praised the court for \u201cgraciously\u201d giving the order.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is democracy and the premise of democracy is the rule of law, so we expect nothing more than absolute submission by the state government to comply with the order of the court,\u201d he told journalists. \u201cI have confidence that the government will comply or obey this order.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawyers representing the State Attorney General and the State Government, as well as Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, declined comments. – Credit to Premium Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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