The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced the complete shutdown of Nigeria’s power grid by labour unions as the strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress begins. NLC and TUC commenced a nationwide industrial action on Monday in protest against the N60,000 minimum wage proposal of the Federal Government. Announcing the shutdown of the national power grid in a statement issued on Monday morning by TCN spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, the transmission firm said the action was deliberately done by the workers. The statement was titled, “Grid shutdown: Union Deliberately shuts down the National Grid.” It read in…
Tag: Strike
Withheld Salaries: SSANU, NASU Strike Grounds Varsities
National President, Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, has called on the Federal Government to pay the four months withheld salaries of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions. This was in reaction to the seven-day warning strike that SSANU/NASU began on Monday, which grounded universities’ activities across the country. SSANU and NASU had for about a month called the attention of the government to its exclusion from the payment of the withheld salaries which it commenced payment for the Academic Staff Union of Universities in February. Their salaries were withheld when the…
Unpaid Salaries: SSANU, NASU Tackle FG, Declare Seven-Day Strike
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union, on Monday, declared a seven-day warning strike to protest their withheld four months salary. The unions declared the warning strike on Monday in Abuja, following a meeting of their joint action committee in Akure, Ondo State last Thursday and Friday. The SSANU National President, Mohammed Ibrahim, who read the communiqué of the meeting to journalists, said the action became necessary as the Federal Government had refused to pay them the four months salary withheld as a result of their nationwide strike in 2022. The Federal Government recently released…
NUT In Niger State Directs Members To Join Strike Today
Niger state Wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers NUT has directed it’s branches to join the strike action today by mobilising teachers at both primary and post primary schools within their respective branches to comply with the Organised Labour directive. This followed the directive by Organised Labour directing its affiliates to commence an indefinite strike action effective 8am on Wednesday, the 21st of February, this year to press home its demands. The directive is contained in a statement signed and issued to Newsmen in Minna by the Principal Assistant Secretary General of NUT Niger state Wing Comrade Labaran…
Balogun Strike Helps USA To Nations League Title
The US have won both of the Nations League tournaments held in the CONCACAF region and will now look for a regional double in the Gold Cup later this month.
Bank Workers May Begin Strike on Monday
The industrial action, The Nation learnt, is owing to attacks on bank workers by depositors of the old N,1000, N500 and N200 notes.
ASUU Protests As FG Pays Incomplete Check-Off Dues
Though the Federal Government had commenced the process of paying members of CONUA the withheld salaries since they refused to join the strike, the president of the newly-registered union, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, however, appealed that all lecturers should be paid.
UK Teachers Announce Strike Over Pay
The announcement came as public sector workers hold a wave of walkouts for salaries to take into account double-digit inflation.