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Benue varsity lecturers commence indefinite strike

February 2, 2024February 2, 2024 - by Lovina - Leave a Comment

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Benue State University, BSU chapter, has begun an indefinite strike over the school management’s inability to keep to its agreements with the lecturers. This was disclosed in a statement jointly signed by Comrade Kwaghfan Tarnongo, Chairperson and Comrade Terrumun Gajir, Secretary, of the union, on Friday in Makurdi. The union, however, cleared the Benue Government of any wrongdoing and commended it for regular funding of the university. It said that the national body of the union approved its request to embark on the indefinite strike, and it would continue until all demands were met. “The national body of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has approved the request by the BSU and to resume the strike it suspended on June 26, 2023. “The permission to proceed on this strike was formally communicated to members of the Branch on Thursday at an emergency congress,” the statement said. The union listed its demands to include the implementation and payment of accrued arrears of 2021, 2022, and 2023 promotions and annual incremental steps. Others are April …

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Medical doctors in Benue embark on indefinite strike over abduction of colleague

August 25, 2023August 25, 2023 - by Lovina - Leave a Comment

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA in Benue State has embarked on a total and indefinite strike in solidarity with one of their members who was abducted in July in Sankera. This was made known in a statement signed by Dr. Ushakuma Anenga and Dr. Godwin Ameh, Chairman and Secretary respectively of NMA in Benue State at the end of an emergency general meeting on Friday in Makurdi. Recalled that Dr Asema Msuega, serving in Sankera General Hospital in Ukum LGA, was abducted in July and has been in captivity since then. The doctors noted that the difficult decision to embark on indefinite strike action effective 8 a.m., Friday, 25th August 2023, was taken after all efforts seeking the release of their colleague from captivity proved abortive. The NMA said in the communique” that there will be a massive protest of doctors on Tuesday 29th August 2023, at the Government House Roundabout to terminate at the government house. “These decisions have not been taken lightly but in painful consideration of the protracted and unresolved abduction of our colleague, Dr. Asema Msuega …

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JOHESU writes Ngige, tackles NMA on welfare demands

September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 - by Precise Post - Leave a Comment

The Joint Health Sector Unions has written to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on the welfare demands of its members. The union, in a letter dated September 10, 2021, JOHESU also knocked the Nigeria Medical Association for allegedly meddling in its affairs, adding that the best welfare conditions were enjoyed by physicians in the civil service. The letter, titled, ‘Re: Notice of 15-Day Ultimatum and Commencement of an Indefinite Strike Action by JOHESU: Matters Arising,’ addressed to the Minister of Labour and Employment was signed by JOHESU Chairman, Comrade Bio Josiah. The letter partly reads, “The National Secretariat of JOHESU has been inundated with a recent memo of the NMA to the office of the Minister of Labour and Employment with regards to some welfare demands for our members. “As usual, the childish tirades of the NMA were laden with evil chicanery and antagonism in a scenario that epitomises unwholesome meddlesomeness of the idle, ignorant and very inexperienced crop of representatives who lead the NMA. “After a careful analysis of the submissions of the NMA, we …

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Strike: Nigeria May Lose Over 500 Medical Doctors As Saudi Arabia Holds Recruitment Exercise

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 - by Precise Post - Leave a Comment

As many as 500 Nigerian medical doctors on Tuesday in Abuja participated in a recruitment exercise organised by the Saudi Arabia health ministry. This is amidst the ongoing strike embarked on by the National Association of Resident Doctors in the country. SaharaReporters learnt that the Saudi Arabian recruitment exercise was held at Sheraton Hotel and witnessed a large crowd of Nigerian doctors with different specialties such as anesthesia, ICU, pediatric surgery, family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology. Others were; ENT, emergency medicine, orthopedic surgery, radiology, hematology and others. SaharaReporters learnt that the recruitment exercise was conducted by an agency on behalf of the Saudi Ministry of Health and that another recruitment exercise would be conducted in Lagos State and other parts of the country. Applicants were said to have been paid N10,000 as the application fee after which medical certificates, means of identification, and other documents were tendered. Recall that the NARD had on August 2, 2021 embarked on indefinite strike action at the end of the union’s National Executive Council meeting in Umuahia, Abia State. The strike is over the …

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Resident Doctors Set To Begin Indefinite Strike Monday

July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 - by Editor - Leave a Comment

Abuja – Doctors under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have unanimously agreed to embark on an indefinite strike from Monday, August 2, 2021. This is coming at a very critical time when the country is currently experiencing a rise in COVID-19 infections; the signal of a third wave of the pandemic. The doctors reached the decision after their National Executive Council (NEC) meeting by over 50 members across the country. They noted the Federal Government has failed to honour and implement the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it signed with them after over 100 days. The doctors particularly demanded immediate withdrawal of the circular removing House Officers from the scheme of service, which was not implemented. President of the NARD, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, who made these known in a statement, also noted despite efforts by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila to ensure the Medical Residency Training Funds is captured in the supplementary budget, the Federal Government has failed to disburse the funds to its members. He said: “The NEC noted the suspension of the total indefinite strike action …

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Supreme Court Verdict: Jegede rejects Akeredolu’s offer, gives reasons

July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 - by Editor - Leave a Comment

By Our Reporter. Akure – Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the 2020 governorship election in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede, has rejected the offer extended to him by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to join his administration to develop the State with strong reasons. Governor Akeredolu had in his reaction to the Supreme Court judgement affirming his election called on Jegede to join hands with him to move the state forward. But Jegede who spoke through a statement signed by the spokesman of the Ondo PDP, Kennedy Peretei, described Akeredolu’s request as laughable. Jegede said he could not be part of a government that has thrown out many students of tertiary institutions in the State because their parents could no longer pay what he termed astronomical school fees charged by Akeredolu’s administration. He said he could not be part of the government that crippled the health care system and withdrew free shuttle buses for school children. Jegede urged Governor Akeredolu to channel his energies to improving the welfare of Ondo citizens instead of grandstanding and clicking of wine glasses over the …

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Workers’ Strike: Gov Sule sounds tough, invokes no work, no pay rule

June 16, 2021June 16, 2021 - by Editor - Leave a Comment

By Chris Udochukwu Lafia (Precise Post) – Engineer Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has warned the civil servants against embarking on strike , adding that government is invoking the no-work-no-pay rule for striking civil servants in the state. This was part of the resolutions taken at an emergency expanded security meeting, which held at the Government House, on Tuesday. The emergency meeting was convened at the instance of Governor Abdullahi Sule, aimed at amicable resolution of the plight of the striking workers. According to the statement issued at the end of the meeting, signed by Barrister Mohammed Ubandoma Aliyu, Secretary to the Government of Nasarawa State, while government recognises the right of workers in the state to embark on strike, it however enjoins the organized labour to carry out its activities within the confines of the law. The state government expressed dismay over the action embarked upon by the organised labour, especially the indefinite strike action, as well as the picketing of offices, thereby depriving workers from gaining access to their offices. The statement added that government has directed permanent …

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Polytechnic lecturers begin indefinite strike

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 - by Precise Post - Leave a Comment

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has commenced an indefinite strike with effect from today. The union said this followed the failure of the government to address the sorry state of polytechnics and monotechnics and the expiration of the ultimatum issued since March 2020. The action is coming less than a week after resident doctors embarked on a nationwide strike over non-payment of allowances and other issues. Announcing this at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, the ASUP President, Anderson Ezeibe, said academic activities had been shut shown in all polytechnics and like institutions nationwide with effect from 12am, April 6. According to him, the union’s demands were communicated to the ministries of education, labour and others as well as to state governors but nothing was done about them. Ezeibe listed the lecturers’ grievances to include non-implementation of 2014 NEEDS Report and non-release of revitalization fund to the sector despite assurances since 2017. He said, “Our grievances also include the non-reconstitution of governing councils in federal polytechnics and many state-owned institutions leading to the disruption of governance and administrative …

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IPPS: SSANU, NASU To Commence Indefinite Strike On February 5

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021 - by Editor - Leave a Comment

By Francis Etuko Abuja (Precise Post) – The disagreement between Universities and government is far from over as the Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) have declared an indefinite strike beginning from February 5. Announcing the decision on Friday in Abuja, the spokesperson of the joint action committee of SSANU and NASU, Peters Adeyemi, explained that the Federal Government has reneged on their October 2020 agreement where all parties agreed to address the issues leading to the strike. The striking non-teaching staff is demanding that their members be taken off the government’s Integrated Personnel Payroll Information (IPPIS) as well as review the sharing formula for the universities earned allowances between the teaching and non-teaching staff of the universities. “The joint action committee of SSANU and NASU hereby resolves as follows: That members of NASU/SSANU shall embark on an indefinite, comprehensive and total strike with effect from February 5, 2021,” he said. “Two weeks’ notice effective from today, Friday, January 22, 2021 is hereby given to the government and relevant stakeholders of this …

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Seven-month strike lingers as ASUU, govt fight over payment platform

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 - by Precise Post - Leave a Comment

The Federal Government on Sunday criticised the Academic Staff Union Universities, saying issues concerning seven-month strike by the union were confusing. The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, who stated this in an interview with one of correspondents in Abuja, accused the union of muddling things up over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. But in its response, the union said government wanted to turn Nigerians against university lecturers. Recall that ASUU had on March 23 begun an indefinite strike over the Federal Government’s insistence on implementing the IPPIS, which the government said all its employees must adopt for their salaries to be paid. Besides opposing the IPPIS, union also accused the Federal Government of not abiding by agreements both sides signed a few years ago. Two weeks ago, there were indications that the strike would soon end as the Federal Government said that it might consider adopting the University Transparency Account System , which ASUU developed as an alternative to the IPPIS. But the hope that students of public universities would soon resume dimmed on Sunday as …

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Fuel Price Hike: See Carrots FG Dangled that Led to Workers Suspension of Nationwide Strike

September 28, 2020September 28, 2020 - by Editor - Leave a Comment

By Ogechi Okorie Abuja (Precise Post) – The federal government Sunday night dangled mouth-watering carrots to the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress which has led to the workers suspension of the nationwide strike. Part of the agreement reached include reversal of the new electricity tariff for a period of two weeks pending the outcome of a technical committee meeting. The committee is to look at the new tariff regime and metering among others for more understanding. In a communique read by the minister of labour and employment, chris Ngige said both organised labour and government agreed that another steering committee be set up on the petroleum downstream to ensure the nation reduces importation by fixing the existing refineries. Other agreements reached include a specific amount to be unveiled by the federal government in two weeks’ time which will be isolated from the Economic Sustainability Programme Intervention Fund and be accessed by Nigerian Workers with subsequent provision for 240,000 under the auspices of NLC and TUC for participation in agricultural ventures through the CBN and the …

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Cross River Doctors Accuses Governor Of Hiding COVID-19 Patients, Declares Indefinite Strike

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 - by Precise Post - Leave a Comment

Abuja (Precise Post) -The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Cross River chapter has embarked on an indefinite strike in the state. The doctors made this known in a letter addressed to the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, from the state chairman of the association, Agam Ayuk, on Sunday. Ayuk wondered why the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), was not including Cross River in its daily COVID-19 update. Cross River is the only state in Nigeria where no single case of COVID-19 has been officially confirmed. The association claimed five positive cases had their tests done at an NCDC-approved laboratory, but their results were not been published in the agency’s situation report. “The Association demands an explanation from NCDC, why the five (5) COVID-19 confirmed cases from UCTH carried out at the NCDC accredited Molecular Laboratory at Alex Ekwueme University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State have not reflected in the daily situation report of NCDC long after results had been transmitted to UCTH since July 1, 2020. Congress demands update of the NCDC situation report as a matter of urgent public …

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Address Our Demands Within 14 Days or Face Indefinite Strike – Resident Doctors to FG

May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 - by Editor - Leave a Comment

By Our Reporter Kaduna (Precise Post) – The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Saturday called on Federal Government to expedite action and meet their demand within 14-days or its members will they will embark on total and indefinite strike. The Association stated this in a communique issued at the end of its virtual 40th Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) and Scientific Conference. The communique signed by NARD National President, Dr Sokomba Aliyu and Publicity Secretary, Dr Egbogu Stanley was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna. The NARD 40th OGM was held under the theme: ‘Health inequalities and social determinants of Health in Nigeria.’ NAN reports that the virtual OGM, attended by 74 Chapters of the association from across the country, deliberated on issues affecting the nation’s health care system and welfare of its members. “NARD calls on the Federal and State governments to provide adequate personnel protective equipment such as N95 respirators, gloves etc. to all health workers. “NARD also demands immediate recall of the sacked resident doctors at Jos University Teaching Hospital and …