Over 6,000 Candidates Jostle for 1,113 Jobs at PHCDA in Adamawa

HealthLabourNewsOver 6,000 Candidates Jostle for 1,113 Jobs at PHCDA in Adamawa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)September 9, 2020

In an effort to improve health care delivery, the Adamawa state government has commenced recruitment of health workers to fill the existing various vacancies in primary health care centers across the state. Over six thousand candidates have applied for the placement of one thousand, one hundred and thirteen (1,113) existing vacancies. Successful candidates would be deployed to various primary healthcare facilities in the state after the recruitment exercise interview which commenced at the State Primary...

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Why Doctors in Ogun Suspended Strike Action for Two Weeks

LabourNewsNigeriaWhy Doctors in Ogun Suspended Strike Action for Two Weeks

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)September 6, 2020

The strike action by doctors in Ogun State has been suspended for two weeks, the Association of Resident Doctors Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (ARD, OOUTH) has said. The doctors said that the hold back on its two-month-old strike action was to allow for parties reach an agreement after negotiation as requested by the Speaker of the State’s House of Assembly during his intervention on the issue, the Nation reported. “Since the government was willing...

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Do Local Refining to Eliminate Sector Problems – IPMAN

BusinessLabourNewsDo Local Refining to Eliminate Sector Problems – IPMAN

PilotnewsSeptember 5, 2020

Alhaji Popoola Ogundoyin, an Executive Member of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), says that unless Nigeria produces petroleum products through its refineries, the problems in the petroleum sector will persist. Ogundoyin stated this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Saturday, in Ile-Ife. He expressed displeasure with the failure of public and private sector stakeholders to establish standard refineries across the country that would produce enough petroleum products for...

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Electricity: NLC Urges NERC to Take Decisive Action on Tariff Increase

InfrastructureLabourNewsElectricity: NLC Urges NERC to Take Decisive Action on Tariff Increase

PilotnewsSeptember 1, 2020

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to take decisive action on the plan by DISCOs to hike electricity tariff in the country. Mr Ayuba Wabba, the NLC President on Tuesday in Abuja made the call in a statement titled: “Increase in Electricity Tariff by Abuja DISCOs – a taunting of the will of the Nigerian people gone too far”. Wabba said that the organised labour would mobilise Nigerian...

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Bringing Back Water Bill Law Will Ambush Nigeria – NLC Tells National Assembly

InfrastructureLabourNewsBringing Back Water Bill Law Will Ambush Nigeria – NLC Tells National Assembly

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)September 1, 2020

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the National Assembly leadership against resurrecting or passing the Water Resources Bill into law “because of the danger it portends to national unity.” The NLC said the National Assembly should not ambush Nigerians by covertly bringing back the bill, which seeks to lay the control of all water resources across the country on the shoulder of the President. The bill created outrage and divided the eighth National Assembly...

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Unemployment Tragedies in Nigeria: Four PhD, 200 Master Holders Have Applied for FG ₦20,000 Contract Job

EconomyLabourNewsNigeriaUnemployment Tragedies in Nigeria: Four PhD, 200 Master Holders Have Applied for FG ₦20,000 Contract Job

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)August 27, 2020

The tragedy of unemployment in Nigeria is taking another dimension in the public space with the published report of four Ph.D. holders and 200 master holders who have applied for the 774,000 Federal Government (FG) contract jobs which are just ₦20,000. According to the Ogun State Chairman of Special Public Works, Senator Gbenga Obadara in an interview with journalists, he disclosed that “Four Ph.D. and 200 master’s degree holders have applied,” for the FG contract...

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Chevron Meets NUPENG Over Sacked Workers

LabourNewsNigeriaChevron Meets NUPENG Over Sacked Workers

PilotnewsAugust 24, 2020

The management of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) says it has engaged the leaders of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) over the 175 workers laid off by one of its contract companies. Mr. Esimaje Brikinn, the company’s General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. Brikinn said that the laid-off workers were not employees of...

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NLC Urges Imo state Govt. to Pay 3 Months Salary Arrears to Workers, Pensioners

LabourNewsNLC Urges Imo state Govt. to Pay 3 Months Salary Arrears to Workers, Pensioners

PilotnewsAugust 18, 2020

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Imo State Government to immediately pay three months salary arrears owed to workers, pensioners in the state. Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC President said this in a letter addressed to the governor and made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja. Wabba said that workers and pensioners in the state were yet to receive salaries and pension since March 2020. According to Wabba, I write to bring to...

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ASUP Petitions Abia Govt. Over 20 Months Unpaid Salaries

EducationLabourNewsASUP Petitions Abia Govt. Over 20 Months Unpaid Salaries

PilotnewsAugust 17, 2020

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has sent a petition to the National Human Right Commission over 20 months unpaid salaries by Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia. Mr Anderson Ezeibe, National President of ASUP, stated this in a letter addressed to the Executive Secretary of the commission and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. Ezeibe said that the governor had refused to pay salaries to its members in Abia State Polytechnic, Aba,...

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Ebonyi Government Threatens to Sack Striking Judiciary Workers

LabourNewsNigeriaEbonyi Government Threatens to Sack Striking Judiciary Workers

PilotnewsAugust 14, 2020

The Ebonyi Government has ordered members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) in the state, to immediately suspend their industrial action or be sacked. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that JUSUN members in the state embarked on the indefinite strike on Aug.13 over non-implementation of the Consolidated Judiciary Salary Structure (CJSS) by the state government. The union defiled Gov. David Umahi’s threat in a recent state function, to sack the members...

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