Tag: Strike

Resident doctors strike: Patients, relatives lament as industrial action takes toll on hospitals nationwide

Aminu Imam

The strike embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) is taking its toll on the operations of hospitals and medical centres across the nation.  Across various hospitals in Ondo, Umuahia, Lagos, Ibadan, Bauchi, Akure, Ilorin, Ado-Ekiti, Sokoto, it is a story of lamentation, pain, agony by patients who are bearing the brunt of the industrial action.  While some members of management of some hospitals have taken to rendering appeals over the strike, the striking doctors have also insisted they would not succumb to threats until the government…

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Petroleum products marketers have no plan to go on strike – President

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) is neither planning to go on strike nor planning to shut fuel stations nationwide, its National President, Alhaji Sanusi Fari, said on Monday. He said in a statement issued in Awka and signed by the association’s National Secretary, Mr Chidi Nnubia, that the public should dismiss any information regarding the planned strike. The association’s National Public Relation Officer, Alhaji Yakubu Suleiman, had threatened in Abuja on Monday that IPMAN would go on strike and shut fuel stations nationwide beginning from Tuesday because…

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Nasarawa NLC begins indefinite strike today

Aminu Imam

The Nasarawa State chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has directed its affiliate unions and the Civil Society Organisations to join the indefinite strike in the State, scheduled to commence at midnight on June 15. Recall that the NLC had threatened to mobilise workers to shut down the State over the partial implementation of N30, 000 minimum wage and other welfare-related issues. The strike was declared yesterday in Lafia, the State capital, after the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting of the labour movement. Addressing reporters after the meeting, the NLC…

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Lawyers groan as JUSUN strike lingers

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Some lawyers in Abuja on Thursday expressed concern over the prolonged strike by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN). JUSUN on April 6 directed its members to shut down all courts across the country; its members complied with the directive and mounted guard at the entrances of the courts to ensure that no one entered the court premises. The lawyers, therefore, appealed to the State Governors for a quick resolution to end the strike. Speaking, a lawyer, Augustine Nwosu said: “it has been over two months since the strike…

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JUSUN strike stalls deposed Emir Sanusi’s suit against Kano Govt, others

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

A suit filed by deposed Muhammadu Sanusi II, against the Kano State government and others was Thursday stalled due to the strike by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN). The deposed emir had, on March 12, 2020, sued the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police and Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS) over what he called “unlawful detention/confinement” at the Federal High Court, Abuja.  Also joined in the motion with suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/357/2020 are the Attorney-General of Kano State and Attorney General of the Federation as 3rd and 4th respondents respectively. The former…

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Kaduna Labour strike: El-Rufa’i declares NLC leaders bandits, sacks nurses, KASU lecturers 

Aminu Imam

…As armed thugs disrupt labour’s protest…APC Govs urge gov. to negotiate with labour Kaduna State governor, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa’i, yesterday declared the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) leaders who coordinated the shutdown of the State in protest over the mass sack of workers as bandits. The governor vowed that they will be prosecuted, accusing them of wanton destruction of public properties and disruption of peace. Their actions, according to him, were equivalent to the actions of bandits terrorising the State. He also ordered the sack of all nurses in the State…

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Int’l law group mobilises to give free legal services to ‘illegal’ sacked Kaduna workers

Aminu Imam

…Backs Labour’s opposition A group of lawyers under the aegis of The International Lawyers Assisting Workers, (ILAW), has called on all its members across the country to mobilise to Kaduna to render services as may be required by circumstances to the sacked workers in Kaduna State who were hitherto employed by the State government. The group expressed its total support for the protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), in Kaduna State, which started today. The ILAW, in a statement it issued on Friday, described the decision of the Kaduna…

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ASUP to sustain strike despite N15bn offer from FG

Aminu Imam

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, (ASUP), said on Friday that the ongoing strike by the polytechnic teachers across the country will be sustained despite their meetings with the Federal Government and offers made to the union. Giving an update on the nationwide strike, ASUP President, Anderson Ezeibe, declared that the union received offers from the government during their meetings for the release of an infrastructure revitalisation fund of N15 billion for the sector as well as the release of owed 10 months arrears of the new minimum wage within…

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Zamfara drivers on strike to protest highway abductions, robberies

Aminu Imam

Commercial drivers plying the 100-kilometre Gusau-Dansadau road in Zamfara State have gone on strike to protest incessant kidnappings and armed robbery along the road. Dansadau, a community about 100 kilometers from Gusau, the State capital, is one of the hubs of banditry in the State due to its vast forest that has provided cover for the criminals. The chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW), in Dansadau, Isihu Ticha, told newsmen that the strike was to draw the attention of authorities to their plight. The highway stayed…

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UniIlorin Teaching Hospital Doctors begin 3 days warning strike as 25 test positive to Covid-19

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Association of Resident Doctors, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH-ARD), Ilorin, on Wednesday began a three-day warning strike over alleged poor working condition in the institution. Dr Badmus Habeeb, President of the association, said at a news conference in Ilorin that 25 doctors had so far contracted COVID-19 since the beginning of the second wave of the pandemic due to the situation. The doctors carried placards with the various inscriptions including: “Stop Exposing Doctors to COVID-19”, among others to press home their demands at the press briefing. Habeeb said that…

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