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FCT Teachers Press Wike Over Unpaid Arrears, Traffic Gridlock Amid Abuja Labour Crisis  Primary school teachers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have renewed demands for the settlement of outstanding salary and allowance arrears, while also urging the FCT Administration to take urgent steps to improve traffic management in the nation’s capital amid lingering labour unrest.  In a letter addressed to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, the Coordinator of the FCT Local Education Authority (LEA) Teachers’ Forum, Abdulsalam Haruna, recalled that during the 2024/2025 academic session, public primary schools in Abuja were shut for about three months following strike actions by teachers over unresolved entitlements owed by the six area councils.  Haruna acknowledged that through the intervention of the FCT minister, teachers eventually received the N70,000 national minimum wage and partial payment of nine months’ arrears. However, he noted that three area councils ar