Security situation worsens in Ondo State as gunmen abducted 10 Travellers between Owo/Ipele area on Benin/Owo highway in the Northern Senatorial District of the state. Sources revealed that the victims were coming in a bus from South-South region of the country on Sunday but were accosted and forced to a stop by the gunmen, reports […]
•Obafemi Awolowo University main gate Clinical lecturers at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State, under the aegis of Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association (MDCAN), are set to begin industrial action over non-payment of salary. The leadership of MDCAN in a statement yesterday said the strike followed a 21-day ...
Lawyers and inmates across Abia State breathed a sigh of relief today as the state chapter of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) officially announced the end of its three-month industrial action. The strike, which had shut down courts and judiciary offices in all 17 local government areas, was called off following an agreement [&hell...
•Bandits Hoodlums suspected to be kidnappers have invaded the Chikakore area of Kubwa in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, kidnapping a man, his wife, son and two others. A resident of the community told our correspondent that the kidnappers, numbering about 30 and armed with AK-47 rifles stormed the community around 12 [&he...
•Protesting medical doctors Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) shut down medical services today over unpaid 7 months’ salaries to their colleagues employed in 2023. Our reporter who visited Kubwa General Hospital, this morning, witnessed how patients were told that they could not be attended to because doctors were on strike, repor...
•Japan flag Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens yesterday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate region. It is the 19th bird flu outbreak of the season in Japan, the agriculture ministry said. The latest farm reported increasing deaths of fowl, and test results confirmed yesterday that bird flu […]...
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has suspended its two-week warning strike and directed its members nationwide to resume duties on Monday. The union had embarked on a two-week strike on December 2 over neglect of the polytechnics education in Nigeria and other issues, reports Saturday PUNCH. However, in a statement dated December 12 an...
•FCT Minister Nyesom Wike Three days to round off first term examination by the primary school pupils in the Federal Capital Territory, their teachers have embarked on a fresh strike action over non-compliance with the new minimum wage of N70,000 by the area councils of the territory. Primary school pupils in the FCT have experienced […...
•Nigerian workers Barring any last-minute change of plan, the workers in the Federal Capital Territory, Cross River, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Kaduna and Zamfara states may down tools today following the failure of the state authorities to negotiate the payment of the N70,000 new minimum wage. Though the implementation panels set up by the concerned s...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed its members in states that are yet to commence the implementation of the new minimum wage to commence an indefinite strike, beginning from December 1, 2024. The directive is part of the resolutions of the NLC after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the weekend, reports Channels [&hel...
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