Education ministry workers block Alausa from entering office

Workers of the Federal Ministry of Education on Wednesday morning blocked the entranceway to the ministry’s headquarters, preventing the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, and the Acting Permanent Secretary, Dr Folake Olatunji-David, from entering their offices.

A video circulating connected X showed workers gathered astatine the entranceway arsenic a motorcade reportedly conveying the curate arrived astatine the premises.

The protesters could beryllium heard chanting, “Alausa indispensable go,” portion blocking entree to the ministry’s premises.

The improvement comes amid an ongoing quality betwixt the ministry’s workers and the Federal Government implicit the projected concession of King’s College, Lagos, arsenic good arsenic different issues raised by the workers’ unions.

The unions person antecedently demanded the removal of the curate and expressed absorption to the reported 35-year concession of the assemblage to its aged boys’ association.

The workers person besides raised concerns implicit unit payment and different administrative issues wrong the ministry.

The latest protestation indicates that tensions betwixt the ministry’s absorption and the workers stay unresolved contempt caller engagements betwixt the 2 sides.

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