The organised Labour in Kogi state has directed workers in ministries, agencies and parastatals to commence an indefinite strike from Friday, September 22.Ranti Ojo, chairman of the state chapter of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), and Onu Edoka, his Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) counterpart, gave the order in Lokoja, the state capital, on Thursday.Ojo asked the workers to shun offices [...]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced a conditional suspension of its nationwide strike.Biodun Ogunyemi, president of the union, announced the suspension at the end of a meeting with top government officials led by Chris Ngige, minister of labour, in Abuja on Monday.ASUU declared a nationwide strike on August 13, citing the failure of the government to implement the 2009 [...]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended of its 10-day-old strike for two weeks to monitor the level of federal government’s compliance with the agreement reached.The two weeks period is to afford the doctors enough time to further discuss with the federal government to arrive at final solutions to the contentious issues.The doctors would, however, resume the strike [...]
The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) says it will begin a nationwide strike next Wednesday.The union said the planned action was due to the government's failure to meet its demands.Its demands include payment of arrears of specialist allowances and upgrade of members of the union due for promotion.JOHESU tagged the planned action 'Operation Alligator Bite', saying it would be more [...]
Sometime in July last year, I “strutted” to a hospital to have a niggling problem in my system checked out. The hospital is a popular one in the federal capital territory. After quotidian protocol, I was asked to wait to see a doctor. I sat in the lobby chipping away at time on my mobile phone. I was called in [...]
Hope that strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) would be suspended was dashed on Friday as the federal government breached an agreement it reached with the association.The government failed to pay a backlog of salary arrears to the doctors as it promised to do on Wednesday.Arikawe Adeolu, a member of the national executive council of NARD, confirmed [...]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reached an agreement with the federal government.The accord comes after a meeting, which lasted 12 hours, between the leadership of the union and a government delegation led by Adamu Adamu, minister of education.Speaking with journalists at the end of the meeting, Biodun Ogunyemi, national president of ASUU, said the dialogue yielded "a [...]
Although civil rights and liberties are mostly expressly given either constitutionally or statutorily, right to strike is not anywhere in the extant Nigerian labour laws. The right stems from series of protection and immunities granted to the actions of striking unionists in the first place; and as a derivative of the constitutional right to peaceful assembly and association in the [...]
The joint action committee of Non-Teaching Staff of Universities has directed its members to proceed on a nationwide strike on September 11.The directive is coming a month after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on a strike, shutting down some universities.If the non-teaching staff unions begin its action, it will mean a total shutdown of federal universities.The committee [...]
Isaac Adewole, minister of health, has directed heads of federal hospitals to immediately engage the services of ad hoc doctors to augment the services of those available.The directive followed the strike embarked on by resident doctors, who took the action over the failure of the government to meet their demands, on Monday. One of their demands is the payment of [...]
Isaac Adewole, minister of health, has directed heads of federal government hospitals to employ the services of doctors, who are currently undergoing the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme, to ensure that there is no break in medical delivery.The minister’s directive followed the strike of resident doctors. On Monday, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on a [...]
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has commenced an indefinite strike over the failure of the federal government to meet its demands.The association resolved to take this action after its national executive council meeting which ended in the early hours of Monday in Abuja.Some of the demands of the association include the payment of the salary arrears of its [...]
The federal government says the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be called off “within the next one week”. Adamu Adamu, minister of education, said this on Thursday at a meeting with the senate committee on tertiary education and TETFUND in Abuja.ASUU, an umbrella body of all university lecturers in the country, is currently on [...]
Samson Ayokunle, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has urged Nigerians to stop “playing politics” with the health of President Muhammadu Buhari.Ayokunle said this in Lokoja, Kogi state capital, on Wednesday when he visited the state chapter of the association.Buhari has been receiving medical attention in the UK since May 7.The CAN president urged Nigerians to continue to [...]
Trade union members at the Bank of England, Britain’s central bank, will go ahead with the first strike action by staff for over 50 years on Tuesday, the Unite union said on Monday.Last-minute talks facilitated by a government-run arbitrator failed to resolve the pay dispute with the bank, the union said after it agreed to delay the start of strike [...]
Resident doctors have issued a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government to meet their demands, else they will embark on a nationwide strike.The decision was made on Saturday at the end of the national executive council meeting of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) in Calabar, Cross River.In a communique signed by its president, Onyebueze John; secretary general, Aneke Emmanuel [...]
