•Maritime workers The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria has threatened to withdraw its services from the ports and jetties of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding fails to pay its members under their employment their nine-month salary areas. The union also warned of an impending industrial crisis in the maritime sector if the [...
•Nigerian health care workers Public health care workers under the aegis of Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the federal government to address all lingering issues with the union or risks another round of industrial action. A memo jointly signed by the national chairman and national secretary of the union, [&...
•Wike Following the ongoing strike by primary school teachers over the non-payment of 25-month minimum wage arrears and other entitlements, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has invited the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) for a meeting. A source who is a member of the State Wing Executive Committee...
•FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, today threatened to divert the 10 percent Internally Generated Revenue accrued to the FCT area councils to pay the striking primary school teachers in the territory. Wike, who was responding to questions from journalists on the ongoing strike by the teachers, de...
•ASUU National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke The Academic Staff Union of Universities has issued a fresh 14-day ultimatum for the federal government to resolve lingering issues affecting lecturers. This is coming after the expiration of a 21 days’ ultimatum earlier by the union. ASUU is demanding the conclusion of the renegotiation of the 2...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Gombe State University chapter, has declared a total and indefinite strike over unmet demands. The strike, effective immediately, follows a congress meeting held today, marking the first internal strike action in the university’s 21-year history, reports Nigerian Tribune. “The strike is necessar...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, yesterday, commenced a seven-day warning strike to push for the rescue of a Kaduna-based doctor, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who was kidnapped last December and has spent about eight months in the abductors’ den. The strike, which held across the country, left patients stranded and the doctors shunned work...
•Doctors protest The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has started a 7-day warning strike across all of its centres nationwide. The resident doctors strike is to clamour for the release of its kidnapped member, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who has been in captivity for over 8 months, reports Channels TV. NARD President, Dr Dele Abdullahi,...
•Miners of the Escondida copper mine on strike, block a road outside of Escondida Workers at the world’s largest copper mine in Chile are striking after pay talks with Australian resources giant BHP fell apart, casting a shadow of uncertainty Wednesday over the market for the commodity. The Escondida mine in northern Chile yearly digs [&hellip...
•A Bangladeshi student controls the traffic as police go on strike in Dhaka Bangladeshi students battled police for control of the streets and won, but if their country is to embark on a new journey, someone has to clear the road ahead. Gridlock is a fact of life in the capital Dhaka, a megacity of […]
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