•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...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has lamented the non-payment of arrears of the national minimum wage to its members. It also urged the federal government to pay the October and November backlog of the N35,000 wage award to workers in its payroll, reports The Nation. The union said fourteen universities have failed...
•Soludo In what looked like a twist of fate for civil and public servants in Anambra state over Subsidy removal palliatives, Anambra State Government has announced an end to all payments to that effect from December 31. Speaking on the palliatives distribution, Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Paul Nwosu, disclosed that the distribu...
•Fubara Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has approved N100,000 to be paid to all civil servants as Christmas bonus. The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Warisenibo Johnson, disclosed this in a statement in Port Harcourt. Meanwhile, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has gone spiritual in the face of the political crisi...
•The protesting workers Members of staff of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, today, staged a protest against non-payment of the 10 months’ salaries and allowances. The angry workers under the auspices of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics...
•Ademola Adeleke Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun says his administration is creating an enabling environment to retain health professionals in the state against the “Japa syndrome”. Adeleke said this at the official inauguration of Osun Health Insurance Scheme (OHIS) Office Complex in Abere, Osogbo, reports NAN. “We have targeted action...
•The jailed health workers Four healthcare workers have been jailed after they were caught on camera physically and emotionally abusing an elderly patient, reports The BBC yesterday. While Ame Tunkara and Morountaro Adefila were found guilty of ill-treatment and wilful neglect and sentenced on December 8 to four months in prison, Danny Ohen an...
The President of Bauchi State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (BACCIMA), Alhaji Aminu Muhammad Danmaliki, has advised salary workers to take to other means of livelihood to survive. Muhammad , popularly known by his traditional title of Danmaliki Bauchi, made the remark when he received officials of the Correspondents’ Cha...
The Organised Labour and the federal government are on a collision course over the government’s failure to sustain the payment of N35,000 wage award to workers. Workers in the Federal Civil Service, in separate interviews with our correspondent yesterday, noted that the federal government only paid N35,000 wage award for September, reports The...
•Adams Oshiomhole Senator Adams Oshiomhole representing Edo North Senatorial District has urged the public and private sectors to pay staffers the new minimum wage of N35,000 before Christmas. The former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress cautioned that there would be no Christmas festivities if workers were not paid the new mi...

