•Nigerian workers’ union The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has called on the Ogranised Labour to immediately mobilise and declare a nationwide strike over the minimum wage and the recent hike in electricity tariff. According to CDWR, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, as the next ...
•People hold placards calling for better pay for junior doctors Junior hospital doctors in England began a five-day strike today, a week before a general election in which the state of the publicly funded National Health Service (NHS) is a major issue. It follows nearly a dozen similar protests by doctors below specialist, consultant level [&h...
•ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke and Education Minister Tahir Mamman The federal government has commenced negotiations with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as part of efforts to avert a proposed strike by the union. Speaking at the end of the meeting which was held behind closed doors at the Federal Ministry [...
•Tinubu The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday threatened to shut down academic activities in public universities across the country over non-substantial implementation of the 2009 agreement with the Federal Government, several months after it suspended the last strike. ASUU said it is putting the public on notice of a possi...
•Tinubu As academic and non-academic workers in the university system have threatened to embark on another round of industrial action, students and parents have said they don’t want another closure of universities, calling on the workers and the government to find a way out of their face-off. According to them, incessant closure of universitie...
•Nurses protest Barring last minute change, all health institutions owned and managed by the Oyo State Government will be shut for the next seven days. This is because, the health workers across the state government owned health facilities under the aegis of Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), an affiliate of the Nigerian [&h...
The Ogun State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association Ogun has threatened to embark on industrial action within the next one week over alleged poor working conditions. Speaking at a press conference held at Doctors’ House, Lukosi, Abeokuta, the Chairman of the Association, Dr. Azim Kunle Ashimi, revealed that the 21-day ultimatum given on ...
•Tinubu The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) today asked Nigerians to hold the federal government responsible if its members embark on another nationwide strike soonest. The union said to avert the looming industrial action in public universities, President Bola Tinubu should sign and implement the 2009 agreement concluded in 2021, ...
•Kenyan doctors protesting with placards Kenya’s government has signed a deal with striking doctors, the health ministry announced today, after almost two months of industrial action that left thousands of patients struggling to find medical care. “After 56 days, @kmpdu signs agreement, ending nationwide doctors’ strike,” the ministry said on ...
The Congress of University Academics (CONUA), University of Abuja Chapter, has dissociated itself from the ongoing strike by the university branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Chairman, CONUA, University of Abuja Chapter, Prof. Abdul Buba, said this when the group paid a courtesy visit to the Vice Chancellor of the U...
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