•Russian drone strikes At least six people have been killed in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, local officials say. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Iranian-made Shahed drones had hit several buildings, including apartment blocks, early today. Attacks on Kharkiv, the closest big city to the Russian border, have been intensifyi...
•Telecoms mast The Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has declared an indefinite strike effective midnight on Thursday, April 4, 2024. The union said the decision was deemed necessary due to the relentless anti-labour practices against field engineers perpetrated by subcontractors. The telecoms un...
•Metropolitan Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya A nationwide doctors’ strike in Kenya on Thursday paralysed health services at some government-run hospitals which are already suffering due to a lack of medicines and equipment. The medics are taking the action, now in its second week, to demand an increase in pay and better working conditions, their uni...
The just concluded meeting between the Senior Staff Association Of Nigeria University (SSANU) and federal government has ended in deadlock, with SSANU insisting strick action continues. Yesterday, the National president (SSANU) Muhammed Ibrahim said the strike continues today, reports Nigerian Tribune. Recall that SSANU and NASU embarked on a ...
•FUOYE gate The Management of Federal University, Oye Ekiti, has blamed the death of a student of the institution on the insensitivity of members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) who were on strike. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abayomi Fasina said the deceased student who was asthmatic could not get treatment d...
•UI The University of Ibadan (UI) has been plunged into total darkness following the non-teaching staff unions’ strike. The strike was embarked upon yesterday by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) as directed by their national bodies, ...
The federal government is appealing to the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) to call off their seven-day warning strike. Both unions began the industrial action on Monday as they pressed for the payment of their salaries, reports Channels...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has said it is in support of the ongoing strike by the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational (NASU) and associated institutions of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and has demanded an “immediate” payment of the withheld salaries of the aggrieved workers. A statement signed by th...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have begun a nationwide strike over what they described as unfair treatment and disparity in the payment of withheld salaries by the federal government. “Definitely, it (the strike) has already started,” SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, decl...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it does not in anyway objected to the members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities(SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) from embarking on one-week warning strike. It said both unions and any others within the university system have the rights...