The Nigeria Union of teachers has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike in September to protest the support for Local Government autonomy by the House of Representatives. This was gathered from the statement of the NUT President, Mr. Michael Olukoya while addressing the journalists in Abuja concerning the issue of local government autonomy which appear to be one of the most contentious issues in the already completed constitution review by the National Assembly. Mr. Michael Olukoya stated that the union cannot pretend to be ignorant of what he tagged ‘approaching darkmess’ which he said will soon envelop the country following the abolishment of stae-local government joint accounts. He further said that the protest strike the union is to embark from the beginning of the next academic session is a temporal one that will help in securing the education of the less-privileged constituting a larger population of the country, adding while the local government autonomy and the consequent abolition of the joint account were effected, there no provision to guarantee regular payment of primary school teachers’ salaries. Olukoya explained that aside the payment of teacher’s salaries, the situation will also amount to non-remittance of the 7.5 per cent counterpart contributions from local government councils to the pension funds of the primary school teachers