Judiciary workers under the Supreme Court, National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Federal High Court (FHC) have pulled out of the planned strike due to begin on Monday. The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) had directed its members in all federal courts nationwide and other judicial institutions to...
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The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has directed its members in all federal courts nationwide and other judicial institutions to withdraw their services from June 2. National Vice President, North Central, Mr Mustapha Laminu, said this in a statement signed and issued on Friday in Abuja. Laminu said...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has urged the National Assembly, legislating on FCT matters, to pay close attention to what the FCT area councils are doing. Wike made the call in Abuja on Thursday, while reacting to the ongoing strike by primary school teachers...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – The Management of Kaduna State University (KASU) has disclosed that school’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its strike action and the varsity has been opened immediately. Addressing a press conference in his office on Thursday, the Vice Chancellor...
A group of students under the auspices of Concerned Kaduna State Students, says the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kaduna State University (KASU), is unnecessary. In a statement on Wednesday in Kaduna by the group’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Yunus Haruna, the students...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – Kaduna State Government has expressed willingness to meet with the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) in order to resolve all contentious issues that led to the strike action at the Kaduna State University(KASU). The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Alhaji Rabiu Yunusa...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Unionists of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) have suspended their strike action, which was driven by demands for better working conditions, following the intervention of the federal government. Mr Tunde Moshood, the Special Adviser on Media and Communications to the Minister of Aviation and...
Air Peace has said that it will resume flight operations on Friday following suspension of strike by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) workers. The airline’s Head of Corporate Communications, Dr Ejike Ndiulo, made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday night in Lagos. According to Ndiulo, Air Peace is...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has summoned the chairmen of FCT area councils and leadership of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), FCT Wing, for a meeting. The meeting was to find lasting solutions to the lingering primary school teachers’ strike over unresolved welfare...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kaduna State University (KASU) Branch, has declared indefinite strike beginning from Feb. 18, over unresolved welfare concerns. The union announced the decision in a statement signed by its Chairman, Dr Peter Adamu and Secretary, Dr Peter Waziri, and made available to the...
Members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan have embarked on an indefinite strike, an official said on Monday. The Association’s General Secretary, Dr Uthman Adedeji, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan that the strike was due to power...
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan Chapter, has said it would embark on an indefinite strike, if power was not restored to the residential areas of the hospital. This contained in a communiqué from its emergency meeting held on on Feb. 14, which was...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Academic and non-academic staff of higher education institutions in Nasarawa State, under the aegis of Joint Unions of Nasarawa State Tertiary Institutions (JUNSTI), is set to embark on indefinite strike over the non implementation of N30,000 minimum wage consequential adjustment, promotions and N70,500 minimum...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kaduna State University (KASU) Branch, has announced plans to embark on an indefinite strike starting February 11 due to unresolved welfare concerns. The union made the announcement in a letter signed by its Chairman, Dr Peter Adamu, and Secretary, Dr Peter Waziri,...
The Association of Resident Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (ARD-FCT) has suspended its three-day warning strike after the intervention of the FCT Minister, Mr Nyesome Wike. The President of the Association, Dr. George Ebong, in a statement on Friday night said the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) under...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Taraba University chapter, has suspended its one month old strike action. This is contained in a statement by the chapter chairman, Dr Joshua Mbaver, which was made available to newsmen on Saturday in Jalingo. The statement said that the suspension followed the...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Abuja Resident Doctors have issued a two-week ultimatum to the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, warning of a hospital shutdown if their demands are not met. The President of the FCTA Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) George Ebong, stated this in a statement issued on...
As the curtain falls on 2024 in a matter of days, there were major events and key moments that Nigerians and global citizens would agree defined the year. On the local scene some Nigerians believe that 2024 offered more not-so-pleasant memories, with little to cheer about amidst the soaring...
Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri has made a conciliatory gesture to striking lecturers in the Bayelsa-owned Niger Delta University (NDU), saying the Government was willing to make concessions to improve their welfare. Diri appealed to the NDU chapter of the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) to call off...