The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association, Enugu Depot has warned it would be forced to shut down selling of fuel in Anambra State within the next two weeks over attacks on members. The Association accused Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s administration of over-taxing its members, clamping on their businesses, and arresting them, reports The P...
•Slices of bread The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN) has disclosed readiness to embark on nationwide strike as from Tuesday, February 27, 2024. Kogi State chairman of AMBCN, Chief Adeniyi Bamidele Gabriel, made this known today during a press conference held in Lokoja. According to him, the National President of th...
Students of Plateau State University, Bokkos have embarked on a protest to express dissatisfaction with the continuous industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which has been going on for three months. The aggrieved students went through the major streets in Jos, the state capital and terminated the prote...
•NLC The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have sent a notice of a 14-day national strike to the federal government. The unions said that the 16-point agreement that was reached on October 2, 2023, between them and the federal government, has not been implemented, reports The Nation. The […]
Workers in the construction industry are set to begin a three-day warning strike today. They premised their action on the alleged failure of their employers, the Federation of Construction Industry (FOCI), to negotiate the payment of N35,000 minimum wage, reports The Nation. The workers, under the aegis of the National Union of Civil Engineeri...
•Doctors during a protest The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria has extended the ultimatum earlier issued to the federal government to address all pending issues by six more weeks. MDCAN made this known in a communique issued at the end of its National Executive Council meeting held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State yesterday. [&hell...
The academic and non-academic staff unions of Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, have began strike due to 11 months of unpaid salary. It was gathered that the workers through their various union leaders, had given the school’s management December 31 as deadline to settle the unpaid salaries, reports The Guardian. Following the industrial act...
•OAUSTECH Trade unions at Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, have notified the state governor, Lucky Ayedatiwa, of an imminent strike over unpaid minimum wages, wage awards and delay in the institution’s subvention. Mr Temidayo Temola, Chairman of Joint Action Congress (JAC) of the unions, di...
Israel killed a top commander of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group in a strike on south Lebanon, a security source told our correspondent today, adding to fears the conflict in Gaza could spread. Hezbollah later announced the killing of a “commander” for the first time, naming him as Wissam Hassan Tawil. It said he died “on […]
•Terrorists Following the constant wave of terror attacks on Garam, a community in Tafa Local Government of Niger State, which shares a boundary with the nation’s capital, Abuja, residents of the area have now been displaced as they fled their homes, seeking refuge in urban centres of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Garam, which shares [&...