•Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital gate One thousand five hundred staff at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) stormed the hospital today in protest against their sack by the management of the hospital. The employees were yesterday asked to desist from coming to work. The enraged workers lamented that t...
•Nigerian workers Ahead of negotiation on the new national minimum wage, the Organised Labour has proposed a Living Wage of $300 for Nigerian workers. It argued that the current minimum wage of N30,000 has since been eroded by the high exchange rate coupled with the abrupt removal of fuel subsidy which has translated into the […]
•Rescue workers at Ibadan explosion Rescue operations are intensifying their search for survivors at the scene of the explosion that occurred in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, yesterday evening, leaving two people dead and 77 others injured. The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, who visited the scene of the explosion, confirmed the casualties,...
Workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA, have rejected the posting of a new Permanent Secretary, Dr Magdalene Ajani, calling for the full implementation of the FCT Civil Service Commission Law, 2018, which provided for the appointment of a chief accounting officer from within the Administration. The workers under the aegis...
Some academic and non-academic staff members of the Kaduna State University have decried the non-payment of their salaries. The workers said they had yet to receive any salary since they were employed three years ago as they were excluded from the state’s payroll, reports Saturday PUNCH. According to them, this was mainly because of the [&hell...
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation has announced plans to employ additional aid workers to improve humanitarian response time. The ministry said the employment would be on a temporal basis as part of the federal government’s commitment to reduce unemployment in the country, reports The PUNCH. It was earlier reported t...
•Train station The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Engineer Fidet Okhiria, told our correspondent exclusively that the workers arrested yesterday for ticket racketeering were staff of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) and not staff of the NRC. This is even as the MD confirmed that the fre...
•Maritime Worker The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has threatened to shut down the nation’s seaports, jetties and oil and gas platforms from next week Tuesday, given the continued refusal of the International Oil Companies (IOCs) and stevedoring contractors to comply with the nation’s extant laws. The union in a statement by the Hea...
•Cardoso and Opara Operators in the banking industry are mobilising $20m to replace specialised workers whose exit abroad in search of greener pastures has worsened service levels in banks. Also, rising network glitches and weaker digital channels have exposed banks to increasing activities of hackers, reports The PUNCH. Mr James Emeka worked ...
•Tinubu Federal civil servants across the country are grumbling over the delay in payment of their December 2023 salaries. They said it was sad they marked Christmas yesterday without money, a development that affected their families, especially those who had no savings, reports Daily Trust. Many of those who spoke to our correspondent lamente...
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