Buffeted by staggering food inflation, rising cost of living, biting fuel scarcity, poor electricity supply and widespread insecurity, Nigerian workers have said they have scant reasons to celebrate May 1 fondly known as Workers’ Day. The federal government has declared today a work free day to commemorate the workers’ day, reports Daily Sun. ...
•Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Shri G. Balasubramanian The Indian High Commission in Nigeria has vowed to sanction the workers at the Indian Language School, Ilupeju, Lagos who refused our correspondent access to the school facility for inquiries. Following online reports that the school was not admitting or welcoming Nigerians on its p...
The National Union of Banks, Insurance and FiÂnancial Institutions EmÂployees (NUBIFIE) has staged a protest at the head office of the Heritage Bank in Victoria Island over alÂleged wrongful disengageÂment and refusal to settle severance benefits of about 1000 exited workers. The leaders and memÂbers of the union, while chanting solidarity son...
Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), yesterday, rejected the federal government’s plan to pay its members half salary for the four months withheld salaries. Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, on Wednesday, revealed that SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) would get half of their withheld salaries if President ...
As a result of persistent electricity blackouts at the University College Hospital, UCH, in Ibadan, Oyo State, the joint action committee, JAC, which is the umbrella body of unions at the UCH, has directed all employees of the health institution to commence work from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily from today. In February, the […]
•Telecoms mast The Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has declared an indefinite strike effective midnight on Thursday, April 4, 2024. The union said the decision was deemed necessary due to the relentless anti-labour practices against field engineers perpetrated by subcontractors. The telecoms un...
Canada is set to reduce its intake of temporary foreign workers, Immigration Minister Marc Miller has announced. This strategy marks a significant shift from the nation’s previously expansive immigration policy, reports AFP. Miller highlighted that Canada has witnessed a notable surge in the admission of temporary residents in recent years. “C...
•UI The University of Ibadan (UI) has been plunged into total darkness following the non-teaching staff unions’ strike. The strike was embarked upon yesterday by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) as directed by their national bodies, ...
•Naira Not less than ten states are paying wage award to their workers, findings have shown. Lagos, Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ondo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Adamawa and Jigawa are part of the 15 states surveyed by our correspondents yesterday, reports The Nation. Niger State yesterday approved payment of N20,000 each to its workers. Following the withdraw...
•Striking electric workers Staff of the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, have flagged off an indefinite strike after staging a protest over unjust treatment and other pending industrial disputes with the management of the company. The placards-carrying aggrieved members of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), this mornin...
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