Workers in Ekiti State who have embarked on an industrial action for the last three weeks have declared a three-day fast to seek God’s intervention in their case. The aggrieved employees resorted to go spiritual in a bid to hasten the payment of their five months salaries owed by the state governor, Ayodele Fayose. A…
The industrial action threatened by the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria, NARD, has commenced on Thursday, June 9, 2016. NARD had given the Federal Government a warning that it members would stay away from government-owned hospitals in the country unless their demands were met. President of the association, Muhammad Askira, announced on Tuesday,…
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, says there is no way he can sell off his family or himself just to pay the striking Ekiti workers. Fayose made this known on Thursday while addressing newsmen on salient issues affecting the state, top of which is the inability of the government to meet its obligation in the…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called off its nationwide industrial action embarked upon last Wednesday to kick against the increase in pump price of petrol from N86.50 to N145 per litre. Labour suspended the strike on Sunday and said it would meet with the Federal Government again on ways to resolve issues amicably. NLC…
All things being equal, the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and its civil society allies will commence a nationwide industrial action next week. This is to force the Federal Government to rescind its decision to scrap the controversial fuel subsidy and bring down pump price from N145 per litre. Labour said if the government fails to…
The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has kicked against the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government, which has now led to a new pump price of N145 per litre. The labour union in a statement issued on Wednesday disclosed that it would resist the increment because the action “represents the height of insensitivity and…
The Federal Government has taken a step to stop the threat by resident doctors in Nigeria to embark on an industrial action. Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole told journalists in Abuja on Thursday that the government will look into the grievances of the doctors. This came following a 21-day ultimatum given to the Federal…
The industrial action embarked upon by employees of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, nationwide has been called off with immediate effect. On Wednesday morning, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASAN, shut down NNPC locations in the country to protest…
Employees of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, have embarked on an indefinite strike following the unbundling of the corporation by the Federal Government on Tuesday. Yesterday, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, announced that the government has unbundled NNPC into seven units namely downstream, refineries, gas and power, finance and accounts,…
Reports reaching us indicate that doctors in Ogun State under the umbrella of the National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners, have commenced a one-week industrial action. According to a communiqué issued at the end of its emergency general meeting, the strike is to press home their demands. The aggrieved doctors said they…