Members of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) have said non-response from council chairmen is making the resolution of their six-day strike unpredictable.

The union members said the council chairmen were not making any move to response to their demands.

Primary school teachers in public schools who are members of the NUT embarked on an indefinite strike last week over non-payment of their outstanding entitlements and other unresolved issues.

The chairman of the union, Abdullahi Shafa, told our correspondent that a meeting was held alongside area council chairman and other stakeholders but it ended without in a stalemate.

Shafa said: “You are aware of the ongoing strike and have no headway yet. We met last Saturday to try and see if anything meaningful would be done to, maybe call off the strike, but it was not possible. We are still on it. I will get back to you when we progress.”

In a communiqué issued at the end of the State Wing Executive Council (SWEC) meeting of the union in Abuja, Shafa said it resolved and directed all the primary school teachers in the FCT to resume the suspended strike with effect from last Wednesday.

This was after a 14-day ultimatum which the FCT chapter of the union issued to the six area councils.

With the development, all public primary school children and their teachers are still at home waiting for an end to the strike.

The Acting Chairman of FCT’s Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB), Dr. Hassan Sule, last week regretted that the union should not have called for the strike yet, since they were in talks with the government.

The union lauded the intervention of FCT Minister Nyesom Wike who paid 40 per cent of the 25-month minimum wage arrears to primary school teachers.

The Nation