•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...
•Kano Governor Abba Yusuf Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has appealed to the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to suspend its strike action and avoid putting lives of over 20 million Kano residents at risk. It was earlier reported that Governor Yusuf had set up an investigative panel on the alleged assault by the state Commissioner for […]...
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) have announced suspension of the ongoing nationwide indefinite strike over withheld salaries for a month. The unions in a joint statement yesterday said the suspension of the indefinite strike will ta...
Striking non-teaching staff of the Federal public universities, yesterday, dismissed a report that the federal government has invited them for a meeting over the ongoing indefinite nationwide strike, saying the government has not reached out to them, reports Vanguard. This came as members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Asso...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) says there is no going back on the strike action by the union and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) until their demands are met. SSANU and NASU embarked on an indefinite strike yesterday over the non-payment of their four months salary ar...
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