…vow to fight the revenue collectors if they continued to demand the high tariff Inter-state commercial divers who ply to and from Anambra State, and loaders of wares, Friday, reportedly embarked on strike over the high tariff imposed by Government on commercial drivers over loading and off loading of wares. They vowed to fight the
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…said, if ASUU resumes strike, their second semester exams would be affected Students of Federal University Lokoja (FUL) has begged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) not to resume its strike until after their second-semester exams. The students’ plea came on the heels of ASUU’s congress meeting on Monday, deliberating on the Federal Government’s
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‘The academic union embarked on a strike on Monday, February 14, 2022, exactly 8 months today…’ The Academic Staff Union of Universities has suspended its eight month old strike, The Daily Vendor Newspaper can authoritatively confirm. Though the union is yet to make an official pronouncement, we gathered that the decision was taken at the
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‘Urges FG to jettison idea of proscribing ASUU’ The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Calabar branch on Wednesday disclosed that some understanding have been reached, while some shifting of grounds have been made but only National Executive Council, NEC, will convey the resolutions. Addressing newsmen shortly after its Congress at the International
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The two-week ultimatum issued by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to the federal and state governments ends today. Sources said that the association has scheduled its extraordinary National Executive Council meeting for Saturday, September 10, 2022, in Jos, Plateau State, to deliberate on the ultimatum. The resident doctors had on July 30, 2022, issued
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the federal government of feeding the Nigerian populace with lies over its non implementation of 2009 FG-ASUU agreement which has led to the lingering strike by the union. The Union accused the federal government of claiming to have reached an agreement with it on virtually all
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The Minister of Labour and Employment , Dr . Chris Ngige , will today ( Thursday ) meet with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in a bid to end the over six months strike by the university lecturers . A statement by the Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations at
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Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has suspended its planned nationwide strike that would have started today, Monday, September 28, in protest against the hike in pump price of fuel and electricity tariff. Earlier, there were indications that the Federal Government and NLC might reach an agreement to avert the looming nationwide strike. The Minister of State,
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The Bayelsa State chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have directed civil servants in the state to join the nationwide strike beginning from Monday, September 28. The NLC Chairman in the state, Comrade John Bipre Ndiomu, and his TUC counterpart, Julius Layeh, gave the directive in statement on Saturday. They
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The National Industrial Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the members of the National Association of Resident Doctors to immediately end their industrial action which started on September 7 2020. Justice Galadima issued the order in a ruling on an ex parte application filed by two civil society groups , the Citizens Advocacy for Social
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President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige to meet with the organised labour on the state of the Nigerian economy and how the situation affects the people. The Minister disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Friday, after briefing the President on the state of his Ministry’s affairs. Ngige said that
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Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors have suspended their industrial action . The association ’s President , Aliyu Sokomba , confirmed this on Thursday evening . Sokomba , however , said that notwithstanding the suspension of the industrial action , negotiations with Federal Government will continue on Friday morning .It was gathered that
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The Academic Staff Union in the Colleges of Education (COEASU) on Thursday directed its members nationwide to immediately embark on an indefinite strike over welfare and other working conditions. The President of COEASU, Nuhu Ogirima, who gave the directive at a press briefing in Abuja, accused the Federal Government of failing to provide outstanding N441
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A fresh crisis is brewing in the nation’s health sector as workers under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations have issued a 15-day strike notice to the Federal Government in agitation for their demands. In a letter addressed to the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire,
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The Joint Health Sector Union and Assembly of Health Care Professionals (JOHESU) has told the Federal Government that it can no longer guarantee industrial peace and harmony in the health sector, and therefore, threatened to embark on strike if their long list of demands which include immediate payment of COVID-19 special incentives and hazard /inducement
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