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A long looming university strike is here as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has taken a decision to go on complete, total and comprehensive strike. NewsProbe gathered from ASUU sources at the UNN that members vowed not to continue in the back and forth discussion with the Federal Government. ASUU has been at ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has informed the Federal Government of its plans to embark on a nationwide strike by placing the government on a 21-day notice. Sources within the National Executive Council of ASUU confirmed the development to The Punch in Abuja on Monday. The notice was issued at the end of the NEC meeting, which was ...

  The organised labour has vowed to reject any ₦62,000 or ₦100,000 minimum wage proposal for Nigerian workers by the federal government. Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Monday, the Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Chris Onyeka, described such a proposal as a “starvation wage”. Onyeka insisted that labour won’t accept the latest government’s ...

Members of the organised labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, on Tuesday, suspended their strike for five days. The centres are expected to issue a statement shortly before the commencement of negotiations with the government. The strike which commenced on Monday was called to protest the failure of the Federal Government to approve new minimum wage ...

  The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says its workers’ union has shut down the national grid, resulting in a nationwide blackout. The TCN General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in a statement Monday. Ms Mbah said the national grid shutdown occurred at about 2.19 a.m. on Monday. “The Transmission Company of Nigeria hereby informs the general public ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities has threatened a nationwide strike. The union decried the failure of the Federal Government to appoint Governing Councils for Federal Universities. The union also faulted what it described as the nonchalant attitude of the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to matters pertaining to academics in Nigerian Federal Universities. The body of academics, during ...

  The leadership of both the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have directed their members across university and inter-university centre campuses nationwide to withdraw services beginning from Monday, 18 March. The seven-day industrial action, according to a memo addressed to the branches of the unions and dated ...

…as LCCI, maritime sector lose N20bn The national executive councils of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress on Wednesday night suspended their nationwide strike over an alleged assault on the President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero. The unions said the suspension followed the intervention of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu. However, the organised Private Sector and ...

Organised Labour last night suspended its planned nationwide strike for one month following an agreement with the Federal Government. Though details of the Memorandum of Understanding suspending the strike, were sketchy at the time of this report, the agreement, Vanguard gathered, was reached very late at night. The meeting was reconvened yesterday for both government and labour to find common ...

  The organised labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, Nigeria, on Friday, boycotted an emergency meeting with the Federal Government that was scheduled for 3pm at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Federal Government had called an emergency meeting with the leaders of the organised labour at the Conference Room of the Office of the President’s ...