The striking area councils’ workers and the primary school teachers across the six area councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have vowed to hold a peaceful protest in Abuja on Wednesday.

The workers, under the umbrella of the joints unions of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), said the protest was as a result of the failure of the area councils’ chairmen to pay them the new minimum wage of N70,000, which has since been enjoying by their counterparts at the FCT Administration.

Addressing newsmen in Gwagwalada on Monday, the FCT Secretary of NULGE, Comrade Sa’ad Abdulmumin, said the two unions had decided to embark on the protest to draw the public attention to their plights.

He said despite the fact that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, had approved and released the sum of N4.1 billion to pay the minimum wage, the six area council chairmen have remained adamant to implement the new wage.

He added that the council chairmen had also refused to implement N30,000 wage award, 25 to 35% salary adjustment, 40% peculiar allowance, 35% CONHESS/CONMESS salary adjustment as well as non-remittance of pension deductions to PFA from the workers’ salary.

According to him, despite the numerous strikes by workers, the council chairmen remained adamant, unmoved and insensitive to the plight of both primary school teachers and workers in the council secretariats.

He said, ‘’It is on this premise that the two unions, the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has decided to stage a peaceful protest to the FCTA in Area 11 on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, over non- implementation of the minimum wage and other entitlements of the workers by the six area councils’ chairmen.”

It would be recalled that workers under the umbrella of the joint unions of NUT and NULGE resumed the strike action over non-implementation of their new minimum wage by the council chairmen a month ago.

The unions had last week claimed that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, had released N4.1 billion to the six area council chairmen to implement the minimum wage and other backlogs of teachers and area council workers’ arrears.

The accused the council chairmen of being adamant to pay.

The chairman of Kwali Area Council, who is also the chairman of ALGON in the FCT, Danladi Chiya, did not respond to several calls and text messages sent to him on the matter.