Saturday Tribune: Teachers and Politics of NUT Strike
President Umaru Yar’AduaEducation has been described as the best legacy a nation can bestow its younger generations. Lord Brougham, one of the greatest human leaders ever, once said that education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. This signifies the import of education to national development and underlies why a nation groans whenever academic calendar is affected and a major crisis rears its ugly head to disrupt the education system, most especially at the primary and secondary school levels. In this respect, the effect of the on-going crisis – the planned indefinite nation-wide strike – declared by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), to begin on Tuesday, has been described as unwarranted and preventable.
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