IBADAN — The organized students union body on Wednesday had protested at the main gate of the University of Ibadan (UI) against the prolonged industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) The security operatives were strategically positioned at the main gate of the University to forestall the breakdown of law and order as protesters moved around with placards, calling for an end to the face-off between the Federal Government and...
BENIN — Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Sunday announced a new minimum wage of N40,000 for state civil servants in commemoration of 2022 Workers’ Day. Obaseki, who made the announcement in Benin while delivering his 2022 Workers’ Day speech, said his government will continue to prioritise the welfare of Edo workers, equipping them with the capacity and environment to deliver efficient and quality service to the people Obaseki said that as a government, they...
ABUJA — The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has vowed to disrupt the planned presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 general elections. In a statement titled, “End ASUU Strike or Forget Political Activities in Abuja”, signed by its President, Sunday Asefon, the association condemned the rush for party tickets by politicians while the universities have been shut for almost three months. The...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Act, 2022. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. On January 20, 2021, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved a bill that sought to increase the retirement age and the service years of teachers. The essence of the bill was to give legal backing for the approval of the...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has attributed lack of functional skills led to most Nigerian youths remaining unemployed. Ngige was speaking in Abuja on Thursday while declaring open a one-day ‘Job, Career and Employability Fair’; said the Nigerian government is conscious that most unemployed are those without functional skills. The fair was organised by the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) with the theme ‘Promoting...
LAGOS — The National Body of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has dissolved its Lagos State council under the leadership of Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo. This was disclosed in a statement by the National Administrative Council of the union. The statement which was titled ‘Dissolution of Lagos State Administrative Council’, was jointly signed by its national president, Alhaji Tajudeen Baruwa, and general secretary, Alhaji Kabiru Ado Ya’u. The...
ABUJA — The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the dismissal of nine police officers for allegedly spearheading a planned strike by members of the Nigeria Police Force over poor conditions of service. Those affected are two Inspectors, five Sergeants and two Constables. A police signal issued by the Commissioner of Police Provost, Force Headquarters, Abuja, said the men were dismissed from service following their orderly room trial for planning and coordinating a strike...
ABUJA — Members of the Nigerian Medical Association and its affiliates such as the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors and the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria have accused the Federal Government of failing to implement the new hazard allowance scale. The National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission had on December 22, 2021 issued a circular conveying the approval of the Federal Government to increase the hazard allowance for doctors and other health workers...
ABUJA — The Academic Staff Union of Universities has again blamed the Federal Government for the ongoing strike in public universities. The union’s national president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview with Sunday PUNCH stated that the government “went to sleep” for eight months after it completed negotiations with the union in May 2021. ASUU had on Monday, March 14, 2022, announced an eight-week rollover of its four-week warning strike, which ended a day earlier....
MAKURDI — Health Care Workers across the 21 local governments in Kogi State have threatened to embark on strike if their demand for improved salaries is not met by the government. Comrade Rose Momoh, State Secretary, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria in a statement issued to journalists on Saturday, said health workers recently received 25 per cent of their January salary in 2022. She explained that the primary health workers in the local...
