Nigeria, Jan. 2 -- Public school teachers in Kwara State on Friday protested their exclusion from a 30 per cent peculiar salary allowance recently approved for other categories of state workers, describing the decision as discriminatory and economically damaging.

The protest, which took place in Ilorin, followed weeks of discontent after the state government approved the salary increase for core civil servants in December 2025 without extending it to teachers.

Carrying placards and chanting solidarity songs, the teachers accused both the state government and the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) of failing to protect their welfare amid rising living costs.

One of the protesters told Sahara Reporters that the demonstrati...