Salary Arrears
National Assembly legislative aides protest non-payment of arrears
The National Assembly Legislative Aides Forum on Tuesday in Abuja protested the non-payment of their 20 months’ salary arrears.
Resident doctors threaten to resume strike in four weeks
Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have asked the Federal Government to honour its agreement with the union.
Nigerian government meets striking doctors Friday
The representatives of the federal government to be led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, will Friday meet with the executive of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD).
Strike continues as resident doctors insist demands not met
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has said that the ongoing strike action by its members will continue as most of their demands were not yet met.
Striking doctors to meet with House committee Thursday
The leadership of the striking resident doctors under the umbrella of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has been summoned by the House of Representatives Committee on Health next Thursday to discuss issues relating to their ongoing industrial action.
Nigerian government invites ASUP to emergency meeting over strike
The federal government has invited officials of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) to an emergency meeting over its proposed strike.
NMA: President Buhari’s effort in addressing doctors’ strike being sabotaged
The president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Innocent Ujah, says some people are sabotaging the efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari in addressing the strike by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD).
Non-indigenous staff sue Taraba government over 77 months salary arrears
The non-indigenous staff of the Taraba Publishing Company Limited, Sun Rise, has dragged the Taraba State Government to the National Industrial Court, Jos Division over its failure to pay 77 months’ salary arrears of 18 staff, amounting to N73, 257, 715,40.
NARD president: Senator Ngige has lost touch with medicine
Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, president of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), says Senator Chris Ngige, minister of labour, has lost “touch with medicine”.
ASUP strike grounds tertiary education in Jigawa
The nationwide strike action embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has halted academic activities across the over thirty tertiary institutions in Jigawa State.
Kano NLC issues seven-day ultimatum to government over salary deductions
Kano State Council of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has given a seven-day ultimatum to the state government to refund and stop what it described as “illegal deduction” from civil servants’ salaries or face industrial action.
Bayelsa: We won’t retrench workforce amid dwindling revenues – official
The Bayelsa state government has assured civil servants in the state that it had no plans to downsize the workforce, amidst dwindling revenue.
ARD-UITH joins nationwide strike over welfare issues
The Association of Resident Doctors, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (ARD-UITH) branch, on Thursday joined the nationwide strike over welfare issues.
Benue governor commissions primary healthcare board complex
Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue, has commissioned a 23-room office complex of the State Primary Healthcare Board.
Ogun governor: Abeokuta’ll enjoy regular water supply in June
Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has said that regular and improved water supply would be restored to Abeokuta and its environs, as soon as the ongoing rehabilitation work on a dam at Arakanga waterworks is completed in June.
Kwara governor has spread infrastructure across 193 wards – aide
Kwara State governor AbduRahman AbdulRazaq has spread infrastructural projects across the 193 wards in the state in the last two years
Health workers suspend strike in Bayelsa
The Bayelsa State Chapter of Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has suspended the industrial action embarked upon by its members on Feburary 12.
Ogbeni Aregbesola: I didn’t collect salary for 8 years as governor
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola at the weekend dismissed reports that he received 96- month salary arrears in secret when he served as the governor of Osun state.
Abia government begs teachers to call off strike
Abia state government has urged teachers in the state to resume classes, by March 1, 2020, saying that it had paid one million Naira between December 2020 and January 2021, to settle arrears of salaries, owed teachers in the state
Ijaw communities beg Rivers governor to pay surveillance contractors
Ijaw communities under the auspices of the Movement for Survival of Izon Ethnic Nationality (MOSIEND) have appealed to Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike to pay the companies he engaged as land and waterway surveillance contractors from 2018 to 2019.
Bayelsa primary healthcare centres shut as workers protest 15 months salary arrears
The ongoing strike by members of the Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Bayelsa Chapter, has shut Primary Healthcare Centres across the state.
Ondo doctors begin strike over half salary payment
“Doctors in Ondo are working under harsh conditions. We cannot work from home. It is unfathomable that we are being paid half salary. We are not insensitive to the hardship this action will bring. It is our hope that the government will get back to us,” Dr. Omolayo Olubosede, spokesperson for the doctors, said to The Nation.
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