The Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, has announced an indefinite strike that, it says, will paralyse activities in all health institutions across the country. “All federal government health institutions in Nigeria including federal medical centres, specialists’ hospitals, orthopedic hospitals, psychiatric hospitals among others will be the first to shut down. If the government allows the […]
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The Ekiti State University, EKSU, chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Thursday called of its 3-month old strike. NAN reports that members of the union in the university embarked on strike since January over unresolved staff welfare issues and unpaid salaries. At a marathon ASUU meeting held on Thursday, 53 per […]
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The Non-Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), and some other unions have suspended their strike, which commenced on December 4, 2017. Samson Ugwuoke, chairman of the joint action committee of the unions, announced this at a briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. […]
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The federal government says it will source for N8 billion within five weeks to pay the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said this at a resolution reached at a conciliation meeting with the Non-Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities in […]
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The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has pleaded with the Federal government to intervene in the on-going strike by non-academic staff in universities nationwide. The National President of the union, Comrade Michael Olukoya, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos. NAN reports that labour unions, […]
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Lecturers under the aegis of the Joint Union of Tertiary Institutions (JUTI), Nasarawa State Chapter, on Friday, have embarked on an indefinite strike after the state government failed to meet their demands on welfare issues. Announcing the strike in Lafia, Mr Samuel Bashayi, who doubles as the Chairman of the College of Education Academic Staff […]
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Nigerian Health workers under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations have issued a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government to meet their demands or face a nationwide strike action. Comrade Biobelemoye Josiah and Comrade Ekpebor Florence, the national chairman and secretary of JOHESU respectively, said the […]
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The Kaduna state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), has suspended its strike. The union had gone on strike on January 8, to protest the sacking of of 21,780 of their colleagues who failed a competency test conducted by the state government in 2017. Adamu Amba, the state NUT chairman, who announced the […]
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Teachers in public secondary and primary schools in Kaduna State on Monday began an indefinite strike action over job security and welfare issues. The strike was called by the state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT). The government on Sunday threatened to sack any teacher that joined the strike. In some of the […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened to embark on a strike should the fuel scarcity currently being experienced exceeds December. Isa Aremu, a chieftain of the Labour organisaton said this in a statement issued in Kaduna. Aremu said the situation might compel Nigerians to return to street protests as they had done in the […]
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