Health workers serve strike notice against Tuesday
By Olu AJAYI (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: A SECTION of the health workers has threatened to embark on strike with effect from Tuesday midnight. The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) issued the notice on Monday that the industrial action would paralyse activities in all health institutions in the country. The health workers National Vice Chairman, Ogbonna […]
Kogi Doctors Begin Strike
By Tokunbo FAKEYE (Abuja) NIGERIA: WITH effect from Monday, January 8, 2018, doctors in Kogi State will down tools to force government to meet their demands. The umbrella body for the doctors, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), in the state said on Sunday that its members should begin the strike following the refusal of […]
Total strike looms at Nigerian universities
By Olu AJAYI (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: THE three non-teaching staff in the nation’s universities have threatened to embark on strike with effect from Monday, September 11. The unions – the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), Non- Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) – […]
Ex-Unilag VC counsels ASUU on alternate approach to strike
By Olu AJAYI (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: A FORMER Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe has called for “intensive time-bound negotiation” to solve the incessant strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Ibidapo-Obe, who was reacting on Penpushing, a social media platform, over the ongoing ASUU strike, said that the time […]
Sack: Mapoly striking workers go fetish, invoke spirits
By Sola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: THE striking workers of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (Mapoly), Abeokuta, Ogun State on Wednesday went spiritual to appease the mind of the Transition Committee in-charge of conversion of the institution to university. The over 1,000 workers, who include both the academic and non-academic, placed fetish objects in pots where they […]
Mapoly lecturers begin strike over planned job loss
By Sola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: LECTURERS under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State on Tuesday began an indefinite strike over alleged plan to sack them. They alleged that the Transition Committee (TC) set up for the newly established Moshood Abiola University of […]
Ogun radio workers adamant, give final strike notice
By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: WORKERS at the Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation (OGBC) have given the management of the station the final notice of their impending strike. The aggrieved workers said on Friday that in line with the law, they gave the management three working days more to yield to their demands, failure of […]
Ogun Radio workers threaten strike, issue ultimatum
By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: WORKERS at the Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation (OGBC) have threatened to embark on strike. The staffers of the state owned radio station have therefore given the government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun seven days to act over the non-payment of N148.26 million which is their outstanding entitlements between 2012 and […]
Ogun: Resident doctors issue strike notice
NIGERIA: RESIDENT doctors in Ogun State have indicated their interest to join the proposed national strike called by their national leadership. The doctors, under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), on Wednesday said that they were in line with the warning issued to the Federal Government to address their welfare […]
ASUU, Senate Committee resume talks on planned strike
NIGERIA: THE ad-hoc sub-committee set up by the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, and officials of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) /Federal Government delegations are to resume talks on Thursday. The parley is meant to avert the proposed nationwide strike by the ASUU and to resolve the only outstanding issue yet […]
